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Ajouter le résultat dans votre panierLife/history / Thomas Yarrow in Africa, 78/3 (2008)
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Titre : Life/history : personal narratives of development amongst NGO Workers and activists in Ghana Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Thomas Yarrow, Auteur Année de publication : 2008 Article en page(s) : pp. 334-358. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Widespread assumptions about the extractive and self-serving nature of African elites have resulted in the relative neglect of questions concerning their personal ethics and morality. Using life-history interviews undertaken with a range of Ghanaian development workers, this article explores some of the different personal aspirations, ideologies and beliefs that such narratives express. The self-identification of many of those interviewed as ‘activists’ is examined in terms of the related concepts of ‘ideology’, ‘commitment’ and ‘sacrifice’. Much recent work within history and anthropology uses the ‘life-history’ as a way of introducing ‘agency’ that is purported to be missing in accounts focusing on larger social abstractions. Yet it is the very opposition between abstractions such as ‘history’ and ‘society’ and their own more ‘personal’ lives that such narratives themselves enact. The article thus interrogates the various ways in which development workers variously imagine their lives in relation to broader social and historical processes.
in Africa > 78/3 (2008) . - pp. 334-358.[article] Life/history : personal narratives of development amongst NGO Workers and activists in Ghana [texte imprimé] / Thomas Yarrow, Auteur . - 2008 . - pp. 334-358.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Africa > 78/3 (2008) . - pp. 334-358.
Résumé : Widespread assumptions about the extractive and self-serving nature of African elites have resulted in the relative neglect of questions concerning their personal ethics and morality. Using life-history interviews undertaken with a range of Ghanaian development workers, this article explores some of the different personal aspirations, ideologies and beliefs that such narratives express. The self-identification of many of those interviewed as ‘activists’ is examined in terms of the related concepts of ‘ideology’, ‘commitment’ and ‘sacrifice’. Much recent work within history and anthropology uses the ‘life-history’ as a way of introducing ‘agency’ that is purported to be missing in accounts focusing on larger social abstractions. Yet it is the very opposition between abstractions such as ‘history’ and ‘society’ and their own more ‘personal’ lives that such narratives themselves enact. The article thus interrogates the various ways in which development workers variously imagine their lives in relation to broader social and historical processes. This is nos our culture! Discourse of nostalgia and narratives of health concerns in post-socialist Tanzania / Vinay Kamat in Africa, 78/3 (2008)
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Titre : This is nos our culture! Discourse of nostalgia and narratives of health concerns in post-socialist Tanzania Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Vinay Kamat, Auteur Année de publication : 2008 Article en page(s) : pp. 359-383. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Oral accounts of the past play an important role in the construction of cultural memories as they are reconstructed in dynamic social contexts. Based primarily on participant observation in a peri-urban village in Dar es Salaam, and life-history interviews with twenty-five elderly residents, this article focuses on reminiscing and cultural understandings of neo-liberal policies in Tanzania's post-socialist context. The article examines how people use narratives to understand and to give meaning to their individual experiences in the context of broader socio-cultural, economic and political changes. Narrators' oral life-histories and illness narratives reveal the ways in which the transition from Tanzania's unique form of socialism (Ujamaa) to Western-style neo-liberalism has led to the erosion of social cohesion at the community level, disrupted existing social support networks and limited access to healthcare. Participant observation and analysis of discursive data draw attention to the fact that the expression ‘This is not our culture!’ and its attendant sentiment ‘Life is hard!’ have become formulaic pronouncements, especially among poor and socially excluded people. These expressions indicate a loss of community values, and a decrease in respect and deference towards the elderly in the post-socialist era that is inextricably bound up with the hardships engendered by neo-liberal economic policies.
in Africa > 78/3 (2008) . - pp. 359-383.[article] This is nos our culture! Discourse of nostalgia and narratives of health concerns in post-socialist Tanzania [texte imprimé] / Vinay Kamat, Auteur . - 2008 . - pp. 359-383.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Africa > 78/3 (2008) . - pp. 359-383.
Résumé : Oral accounts of the past play an important role in the construction of cultural memories as they are reconstructed in dynamic social contexts. Based primarily on participant observation in a peri-urban village in Dar es Salaam, and life-history interviews with twenty-five elderly residents, this article focuses on reminiscing and cultural understandings of neo-liberal policies in Tanzania's post-socialist context. The article examines how people use narratives to understand and to give meaning to their individual experiences in the context of broader socio-cultural, economic and political changes. Narrators' oral life-histories and illness narratives reveal the ways in which the transition from Tanzania's unique form of socialism (Ujamaa) to Western-style neo-liberalism has led to the erosion of social cohesion at the community level, disrupted existing social support networks and limited access to healthcare. Participant observation and analysis of discursive data draw attention to the fact that the expression ‘This is not our culture!’ and its attendant sentiment ‘Life is hard!’ have become formulaic pronouncements, especially among poor and socially excluded people. These expressions indicate a loss of community values, and a decrease in respect and deference towards the elderly in the post-socialist era that is inextricably bound up with the hardships engendered by neo-liberal economic policies. An introduction to the writings of J. G. Mullen, an African clerk, in the Gold Coast Leader, 1916-19 / NEWELL Stephanie in Africa, 78/3 (2008)
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Titre : An introduction to the writings of J. G. Mullen, an African clerk, in the Gold Coast Leader, 1916-19 Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : NEWELL Stephanie, Auteur Année de publication : 2008 Article en page(s) : pp. 384-400. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : J. G. Mullen was a Gold Coast clerk who published his memoirs, in instalments, in the Gold Coast Leader from 1916 to 1919. In this unusual narrative, he describes his adventures in Cameroon before and during the First World War. His account combines real-life geographical and social details with flamboyant tropes probably derived from imperial popular literature. Mullen's biography and even identity have so far been otherwise untraceable. His text offers glimpses, always enigmatic, of the experience and outlook of a member of the new clerkly class of colonial West Africa. This contribution presents an edited extract from Mullen's text together with a contextualizing and interpretative essay. The full Mullen text is available in the online version of this issue of Africa.
in Africa > 78/3 (2008) . - pp. 384-400.[article] An introduction to the writings of J. G. Mullen, an African clerk, in the Gold Coast Leader, 1916-19 [texte imprimé] / NEWELL Stephanie, Auteur . - 2008 . - pp. 384-400.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Africa > 78/3 (2008) . - pp. 384-400.
Résumé : J. G. Mullen was a Gold Coast clerk who published his memoirs, in instalments, in the Gold Coast Leader from 1916 to 1919. In this unusual narrative, he describes his adventures in Cameroon before and during the First World War. His account combines real-life geographical and social details with flamboyant tropes probably derived from imperial popular literature. Mullen's biography and even identity have so far been otherwise untraceable. His text offers glimpses, always enigmatic, of the experience and outlook of a member of the new clerkly class of colonial West Africa. This contribution presents an edited extract from Mullen's text together with a contextualizing and interpretative essay. The full Mullen text is available in the online version of this issue of Africa. From Scotch whisky to Chinese sneakers / DOBLER Gregor in Africa, 78/3 (2008)
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Titre : From Scotch whisky to Chinese sneakers : international commodity flows and new trade networks in Oshikango, Namibia Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : DOBLER Gregor, Auteur Année de publication : 2008 Article en page(s) : pp. 410-432. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : After the end of the colonial period, international commodity flows into Africa at first continued to reproduce patterns of colonial domination. In the last ten years, however, important shifts have become visible. New commodity chains bypassing the old colonial powers have developed and are changing the way Africa is integrated into the global economy. This article looks at four trade networks that converge in Oshikango, a small trade boom town in northern Namibia. It describes how trade in Scotch whisky, Brazilian furniture, Japanese used cars and Chinese sneakers into Oshikango is organized. Whisky trade follows old colonial patterns; furniture trade relies on new South-South business contacts backed by political lobbying; in the used car trade, goods from the North are traded by networks of Southern migrant entrepreneurs; Chinese consumer goods are brought into Africa by Chinese migrants who bridge the cultural gap between the markets. Trade in Oshikango highlights the importance of new trade routes for Africa. Migrant entrepreneurs play an important role in these trade routes. A closer look at them shows, however, that their importance is largely due to opportunities arising from their place in the international system, not to a group's inherent cultural or social characteristics.
in Africa > 78/3 (2008) . - pp. 410-432.[article] From Scotch whisky to Chinese sneakers : international commodity flows and new trade networks in Oshikango, Namibia [texte imprimé] / DOBLER Gregor, Auteur . - 2008 . - pp. 410-432.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Africa > 78/3 (2008) . - pp. 410-432.
Résumé : After the end of the colonial period, international commodity flows into Africa at first continued to reproduce patterns of colonial domination. In the last ten years, however, important shifts have become visible. New commodity chains bypassing the old colonial powers have developed and are changing the way Africa is integrated into the global economy. This article looks at four trade networks that converge in Oshikango, a small trade boom town in northern Namibia. It describes how trade in Scotch whisky, Brazilian furniture, Japanese used cars and Chinese sneakers into Oshikango is organized. Whisky trade follows old colonial patterns; furniture trade relies on new South-South business contacts backed by political lobbying; in the used car trade, goods from the North are traded by networks of Southern migrant entrepreneurs; Chinese consumer goods are brought into Africa by Chinese migrants who bridge the cultural gap between the markets. Trade in Oshikango highlights the importance of new trade routes for Africa. Migrant entrepreneurs play an important role in these trade routes. A closer look at them shows, however, that their importance is largely due to opportunities arising from their place in the international system, not to a group's inherent cultural or social characteristics. Gun culture in Kumasi / Tom C. McCaskie in Africa, 78/3 (2008)
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Titre : Gun culture in Kumasi Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Tom C. McCaskie, Auteur Année de publication : 2008 Article en page(s) : pp. 433-454. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : This article is about gun culture in Kumasi today. Gun use in Asante, and elsewhere in Ghana, has increased significantly in the last decade. In practice and in the public imagination this is associated with the rise of youth gangs and the criminalization of urban space. Much has been written about youths and violence elsewhere in Africa, but this article focuses on the neglected topic of guns themselves – their manufacture, sale, distribution, use and meanings. In Kumasi, which in Suame Magazine has the biggest indigenous metalwork and engineering complex in all of West Africa, skilled artisans now make copies of imported automatic assault rifles, like the Soviet AK-47, as well as shotguns and pistols. This development is explored in a number of ways, and most especially in terms of the relationship between guns and their local history, Kumasi youth, crime and shifting patterns of desire and consumption. It is the purpose of this article to add to the growing literature on ‘violent youth’ in Africa, but to do so from the viewpoint of the weapons that enable this violence.
in Africa > 78/3 (2008) . - pp. 433-454.[article] Gun culture in Kumasi [texte imprimé] / Tom C. McCaskie, Auteur . - 2008 . - pp. 433-454.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Africa > 78/3 (2008) . - pp. 433-454.
Résumé : This article is about gun culture in Kumasi today. Gun use in Asante, and elsewhere in Ghana, has increased significantly in the last decade. In practice and in the public imagination this is associated with the rise of youth gangs and the criminalization of urban space. Much has been written about youths and violence elsewhere in Africa, but this article focuses on the neglected topic of guns themselves – their manufacture, sale, distribution, use and meanings. In Kumasi, which in Suame Magazine has the biggest indigenous metalwork and engineering complex in all of West Africa, skilled artisans now make copies of imported automatic assault rifles, like the Soviet AK-47, as well as shotguns and pistols. This development is explored in a number of ways, and most especially in terms of the relationship between guns and their local history, Kumasi youth, crime and shifting patterns of desire and consumption. It is the purpose of this article to add to the growing literature on ‘violent youth’ in Africa, but to do so from the viewpoint of the weapons that enable this violence.