TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bolt,Maxim
AU  - Camfield,Laura
AU  - Hoechner,Hannah
AU  - Körling,Gabriella
AU  - Mangueleze,Lizete
AU  - Mazanderani,Fawzia
AU  - Monteith,William
AU  - Noret,Joël
AU  - Page,Ben
AU  - Rubbers,Benjamin
AU  - Tvedten,Inge
AU  - Uate,Arlindo
TI  - Social Im/mobilities in Africa: Ethnographic Approaches 
SN  - 9781789204858
U1  - 305.5/13096 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African Societies
KW  - Immobilities
KW  - Mobilities
KW  - Political Economyl Moral Economy
KW  - Social Inequality
KW  - Social Positionality
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Theorizing Social Im/mobilities in Africa --; Chapter 1 Inequality from Up Close: Qur’anic Students in Northern Nigeria Working as Domestics --; Chapter 2 ‘Born Free to Aspire’? An Ethnographic Study of Rural Youths’ Aspirations in Post-Apartheid South Africa --; Chapter 3 Great Expectations and Uncertain Futures: Education and Social Im/mobility in Niamey, Niger --; Chapter 4 ‘Precarious Prosperity’? Social Im/mobilities among Young Entrepreneurs in Kampala --; Chapter 5 ‘Here Men Are Becoming Women and Women Men’ Gender, Class and Space in Maputo, Mozambique --; Chapter 6 The Dynamics of Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt: A Discussion of Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Space --; Chapter 7 Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South African Border --; Chapter 8 Domestic Dramas: Class, Taste and Home Decoration in Buea, Cameroon --; Conclusion: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Positionality in Africa --; Appendices to Chapter 4 --; Appendix 1 Sample Characteristics --; Appendix 2 Summary of Entrepreneurs’ Directions of Social Mobility --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or ‘capitals’ – including wealth, education, social relationships, religion, ethnicity, and others. Accordingly, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789204865?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789204865
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789204865/original
ER  -