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Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins
This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa’s oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present
The General Elections in Kenya, 2007
The 2007 general elections in Kenya led to major unrest. The aim of this book is to examine and analyse the events that set the country on fire for several weeks. The situation has largely stabilised since April 2008, when the articles collected in this book were first individually published. Some political information has been updated post April 2008. The coalition government took shape with Mwai Kibaki remaining President while Raila Odinga became the Prime Minister. The country however remains in suspense, as do the donors who had made it possible for Kenya to restore a semblance of peace. But to what point will they be interested in investing in the country and to protect their place in it? The collection comprises a translation of a special issue of Les Cahiers d'Afrique de l'Est, no. 37, the journal of the Institut Fran?ais de Recherche en Afrique (IFRA) and a collection of articles from Politique Africaine, no. 109. Whilst the tone of the book is not highly optimistic, the thrust is not intended to dampen the unanimous sense of hope in the country that the political and social situation will once more be more than just tolerable.
Indian Africa: Minorities of Indian-Pakistani Origin in Eastern Africa
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have minorities from the Indian sub-continent amongst their population. The East African Indians mostly reside in the main cities, particularly Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kampala; they can also be found in smaller urban centres and in the remotest of rural townships. They play a leading social and economic role as they work in business, manufacturing and the service industry, and make up a large proportion of the liberal professions. They are divided into multiple socio-religious communities, but united in a mutual feeling of meta-cultural identity. This book aims at painting a broad picture of the communities of Indian origin in East Africa, striving to include changes that have occurred since the end of the 1980s. The different contributions explore questions of race and citizenship, national loyalties and cosmopolitan identities, local attachment and transnational networks. Drawing upon anthropology, history, sociology and demography, Indian Africa depicts a multifaceted population and analyses how the past and the present shape their sense of belonging, their relations with others, their professional and political engagement.
Rites Et Religion
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The Weekly Review
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Migrations in Uganda
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Miroirs anthropologiques et changement urbain
Aujourd'hui, la recherche anthropologique dans les quartiers populaires ne peut se faire en vase clos disciplinaire. Cet ouvrage trace d'abord le bilan de l'histoire de l'anthropologie « urbaine » en France, et s'attache ensuite à analyser, à l'époque des rénovations urbaines des quartiers populaires, les interactions entre les processus sociaux et les mutations de l'espace. Quelles sont les dynamiques d'adaptation et de rejet qu'elles provoquent ? C'est grâce à une étude de long terme et un engagement associatif dans un quartier de Strasbourg que l'auteure déconstruit des identités multiples et des relations complexes de l'intérieur.
