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Conspicuous Consumption in Africa

By: Ilana van Wyk,Deborah Posel

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Conspicuous Consumption in Africa

By: Ilana van Wyk,Deborah Posel

A collection of essays examining cultures of consumption on the African continent From early department stores in Cape Town to gendered histories of sartorial success in urban Togo, contestations over expense accounts at an apartheid state enterprise, elite wealth and political corruption in Angola and Zambia, the role of popular religion in the political intransigence of Jacob Zuma, funerals of big men in Cameroon, youth cultures of consumption in Niger and South Africa, queer consumption in Cape Town, middle-class food consumption in Durban and the consumption of luxury handcrafted beads, this collection of essays explores the ways in which conspicuous consumption is foregrounded in various African contexts and historical moments. The essays in Conspicuous Consumption in Africa put Thorstein Veblen’s concept under robust critical scrutiny, delving into the pleasures, stresses and challenges of consuming in its religious, generational, gendered and racialised aspects, revealing conspicuous consumption as a layered set of practices, textures and relations. This volume shows how central and revealing conspicuous consumption can be to fathoming the history of Africa’s projects of modernity, and their global lineages and legacies. In its grounded, up-close case studies, it is likely to feed into current public debates on the nature and future of African societies – South African society in particular.

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Wits University Press

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177614466X

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9781776144662

Circular Migration in Zimbabwe & Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Deborah Helen Potts

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Circular Migration in Zimbabwe & Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Deborah Helen Potts

The World Bank insists that the urban share of sub-Saharan Africa's population is rapidly increasing - this study shows that in many countries this is no longer true as migration strategies have adapted in response to economic andpolitical change. Circular migration, whereby rural migrants do not remain permanently in town, has particular significance in the academic literature on development and urbanization in Africa, often having negative connotations in southern Africanist studies due to its links with an iniquitous migrant labour system. Literature on other African regions often views circular migration more positively. This book reviews the current evidence about circular migration and urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa. The author challenges the dominant view that rural-urban migration continues unabated and shows that circular migration has continued and has adapted, with faster out-migration in the face of decliningurban economic opportunities. The empirical core of the book illustrates these trends through a detailed examination of the case of Zimbabwe based on the author's longstanding research on Harare. The political and economic changes in Zimbabwe since the 1980s transformed Harare from one of the best African cities to live in over this period to one of the worst. Harare citizens' livelihoods exemplify, in microcosm, the central theme of the book: the re-invention of circulation and rural-urban links in response to economic change. Deborah Potts is a Senior Lecturer in the Geography Department of King's College London. She works in the broad research field of urbanization and migration in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly southern Africa and has conducted research on these themes in Harare in Zimbabwe since 1985. Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia) and Zimbabwe: University of Cape Town Press (PB)

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314

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Boydell & Brewer

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1847010237

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9781847010230

Money from Nothing

Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa

By: Deborah James

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Money from Nothing

Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa

By: Deborah James

Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion—dubbed "banking the unbanked"—which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement. Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals the varied ways in which middle- and working-class South Africans' access to credit is intimately bound up with identity, status-making, and aspirations of upward mobility. She draws out the deeply precarious nature of both the aspirations and the economic relations of debt which sustain her subjects, revealing the shadowy side of indebtedness and its potential to produce new forms of oppression and disenfranchisement in place of older ones. Money from Nothing uniquely captures the lived experience of indebtedness for those many millions who attempt to improve their positions (or merely sustain existing livelihoods) in emerging economies.

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305

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Stanford University Press

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0804793158

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9780804793155

Songs of the Women Migrants

Performance and Identity in South Africa

By: Deborah James

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Songs of the Women Migrants

Performance and Identity in South Africa

By: Deborah James

This book gives an account of how migrant women, whose lives and experiences have heretofore been neglected in the pages of academic scholarship, dance and sing the vibrant and expressive musical style of kiba. In so doing, they build an identity as autonomous breadwinners whose aspirations and values are nonetheless rooted in 'tradition'.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474469574

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9781474469579

Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation

Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair

By: Deborah A. Thomas

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Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation

Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair

By: Deborah A. Thomas

In 2010, Jamaican police and military forces entered the West Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens to apprehend Christopher “Dudus” Coke, who had been ordered for extradition to the United States on gun and drug-running charges. By the time Coke was detained, somewhere between seventy-five and two hundred civilians had been killed. In Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, Deborah A. Thomas uses the incursion as a point of departure for theorizing the roots of contemporary state violence in Jamaica and in post-plantation societies in general. Drawing on visual, oral historical, and colonial archives, Thomas traces the long-term legacies of the plantation system and how its governing logics continue to shape and replicate forms of violence. She places affect at the center of sovereignty to destabilize disembodied narratives of liberalism and progress and to raise questions about recognition, repair, and accountability. In tying theories of politics, colonialism, race, and affect together with Jamaica's history, Thomas presents a robust framework for understanding what it means to be human in the plantation's wake.

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Duke University Press

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1478007443

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Gaining Ground?

Rights and Property in South African Land Reform

By: Deborah James

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Gaining Ground?

Rights and Property in South African Land Reform

By: Deborah James

Mugabe's policy of land seizures in Zimbabwe raised concerns in South Africa. Set amidst these conflicts, Gaining Ground? shows how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa has been produced and contested. Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008

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Routledge

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1135308519

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Conspicuous Consumption in Africa

By: Ilana van Wyk,Deborah Posel

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By: Ilana van Wyk,Deborah Posel

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Wits University Press

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South Africa

By: James Penrith,Deborah Penrith

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South Africa

By: James Penrith,Deborah Penrith

A guide by South-African-based writers which covers the entire range of the country's attractions. With the emphasis on South Africa as a holiday destination, it ranges from the natural beauties of the game parks and nature reserves to the man-made pleasures of Sun City.

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468

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Vacation Work Publications

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1854581759

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9781854581754

Daily Doses of Deborah V

By: Deborah Mills, spiritualist

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Daily Doses of Deborah V

By: Deborah Mills, spiritualist

A daily dose of poetry, prose, devotional reads, a splash of art work, this grandma spiritualist, shares the wisdom of age, past experiences, thoughts in a delightful way.

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Lulu.com

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1387593188

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Book's by DEBORAH POSEL

Conspicuous Consumption in Africa

Conspicuous Consumption in Africa

Circular Migration in Zimbabwe & Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

Circular Migration in Zimbabwe & Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

Money from Nothing

Money from Nothing

Songs of the Women Migrants

Songs of the Women Migrants

Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation

Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation

Gaining Ground?

Gaining Ground?

Conspicuous Consumption in Africa

Conspicuous Consumption in Africa

South Africa

South Africa

Daily Doses of Deborah V

Daily Doses of Deborah V

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