Manoeuvring in an Environment of Uncertainty
Structural Change and Social Action in Sub-Saharan Africa
Published on 7. December 2000
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-7546-1194-3 (ISBN)
Description
Sub-Saharan Africa has seen wide-ranging economic and political change alongside civil and international wars. This volume focuses on the radical social uncertainties there, and how social actors perceive and cope with them in their everyday lives. It also suggests some ways to conceptualize both the actions and the environment of uncertainty.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 154 mm
Width: 223 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-1194-3 (9780754611943)
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Content
Part 1 Theoretial inroads: structural change and social action in sub-Saharan Africa - an introduction; uncertainty in Africa - shifting paradigms and levels of analysis. Part 2 Redefining boundaries: the African nation-state - an elusive challenge; ethnicity and politics in Cameroon - a new kind of uncertainty in the 1990s; naming and claiming - land-authorizing strategies in post-independence Zimbabwe. Part 3 Individual and group strategies: entrepreneurs as path-finders in processes of social change; knowledge for sale? - the politics of university education reform in Africa, with a Nigerian example; the way of the bricoleur; pastoralists manoeuvring in the drought-ridden Sahel. Part 4 Understanding African uncertainties - and beyond: everything can be negotiated - ambiguities and challenges in a time of uncertainty; manoeuvring in uncertainty - on agency, strategies and negotiations.