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Regimes of Responsibility in Africa : Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts / ed. by Alessandro Jedlowski, Benjamin Rubbers.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781789203592
  • 9781789203608
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1451 .R44 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Towards a New Theoretical Approach -- Chapter 1 Historical Regimes of Responsibility in ‘the Politics of the Belly’ -- Chapter 2 The Use(fulness) of Discourses of ‘Responsibility’ on the DRC’s ‘Sovereign Frontier’ -- Chapter 3 High Officials’ Responsibility and State Accountability in the Age of Neoliberal Discharge: Views from Mozambique -- Chapter 4 Reproduction, Responsibility and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire -- Chapter 5 Human Care or Human Capital? Corporate Responsibility and HIV Management at South Africa’s Mines -- Chapter 6 What Are People with Disabilities Responsible For? The Study of Political, Social and Family Responsibilities in the Context of Locomotor Disability (Cape Flats, South Africa) -- Chapter 7 Diverting Makila Mabe: Understanding Responsibility in Kinshasa’s Pentecostal Worlds -- Chapter 8 The (Ir)Responsible Witch: Ambiguities among the Maka of Southeast Cameroon -- Chapter 9 The ‘Return of Culture’: Spiritual Threats, Asylum Policies and the Responsibility of Anthropological Knowledge -- Index
Summary: Regimes of Responsibility in Africa ­analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection develops a stronger grasp of the specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same time, while focusing on case studies from the African continent, the work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, adding to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Towards a New Theoretical Approach -- Chapter 1 Historical Regimes of Responsibility in ‘the Politics of the Belly’ -- Chapter 2 The Use(fulness) of Discourses of ‘Responsibility’ on the DRC’s ‘Sovereign Frontier’ -- Chapter 3 High Officials’ Responsibility and State Accountability in the Age of Neoliberal Discharge: Views from Mozambique -- Chapter 4 Reproduction, Responsibility and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire -- Chapter 5 Human Care or Human Capital? Corporate Responsibility and HIV Management at South Africa’s Mines -- Chapter 6 What Are People with Disabilities Responsible For? The Study of Political, Social and Family Responsibilities in the Context of Locomotor Disability (Cape Flats, South Africa) -- Chapter 7 Diverting Makila Mabe: Understanding Responsibility in Kinshasa’s Pentecostal Worlds -- Chapter 8 The (Ir)Responsible Witch: Ambiguities among the Maka of Southeast Cameroon -- Chapter 9 The ‘Return of Culture’: Spiritual Threats, Asylum Policies and the Responsibility of Anthropological Knowledge -- Index

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Regimes of Responsibility in Africa ­analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection develops a stronger grasp of the specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same time, while focusing on case studies from the African continent, the work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, adding to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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