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Middle Classes in Africa

Changing Lives and Conceptual Challenges - Previously published in hardcover
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
376 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am30.01.2019Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Empirical contributions, drawn from a diverse range of contexts, address both African histories of class formation and the political roles of the continent´s middle classes, and also examine the important interdependencies that cut across inter-generational, urban-rural and class divides.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextEmpirical contributions, drawn from a diverse range of contexts, address both African histories of class formation and the political roles of the continent´s middle classes, and also examine the important interdependencies that cut across inter-generational, urban-rural and class divides.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-09674-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum30.01.2019
AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
ReiheFrontiers of Globalization
Seiten376 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht511 g
IllustrationenXIII, 376 p. 4 illus.
Artikel-Nr.46139729

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Africa´s Middle Classes in Critical Perspective; Tabea Scharrer, David O´Kane and Lena Kroeker .- Section 1: Rethinking Concepts of Middle Classes in Africa.- 2. Turning the Poor into Something More Inspiring: The Creation of the African Middle Class Controversy; Dominique Darbon .- 3. The Narrative of the African Middle Class´ and its Conceptual Limitations; Dieter Neubert and Florian Stoll.- 4. Anthropology and Class in Africa: Challenges of the Past and Present.- Section 2: The Recurring Rise and Return of Middle Classes in Africa; David O´Kane and Tabea Scharrer.- 5. The Ghanaian Middle Class, Social Stratification, and Long-Term Dynamics of Upward and Downward Mobility of Lawyers and Teachers; Jan Budniok and Andrea Noll .- 6. The Nubians of Kibera Revisited´: Detribalized Natives, Slum Dwellers, Middle class?; Johanna Sarre .- 7. Saving and Serving the Nation: HIV Politics and the Emergence of New Professional Classes in Botswana; Astrid Bochow .- Section 3:The Political Consequences of the Middle Classes.-8. Propertied Citizenship in a Township and Suburb in Johannesburg; Barbara Heer .- 9. Thinking Sierra Leone and Building a New Middle Class: Political Expression and Political Values at the University of Makeni; David O´Kane .- 10. African Middle Classes: Formation and Destabilizing Effects.- Section 4: Formation of Social Interconnections and Interdependencies; Jason Musyoka .- 11. Pathways into the Middle: Rites of Passage and Emerging Middle Classes in Namibia; Julia Pauli .- 12. Middle Class Approaches to Social Security in Kenya; Lena Kroeker .- 13. Middle Classes and Moderate Prosperity´ in Rural Madagascar; Tsiry Andrianampiarivo .- 14. Afterword. The (Idea of) African Middle Classes: Theorizing from Africa; Rachel Spronk.mehr
Kritik
"The volume is well structured, offers nuanced questions, and engages with relevant challenges relating to current trends in social formations of African societies." (Henning Melber, Africa Spectrum, Vol. 53 (1), 2018)mehr

Schlagworte

Autor

Lena Kroeker is Research Fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany

David O'Kane is an Associate of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany

Tabea Scharrer is Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
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