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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821955903321

Autore

Osha S

Titolo

African Postcolonial Modernity : Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus / / by S. Osha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-349-49617-0

1-137-44693-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

African Histories and Modernities, , 2634-5773

Disciplina

320.96

Soggetti

Ethnology—Africa

Popular culture - Study and teaching

Social sciences

Imperialism

Social history

Ethnology

African Culture

Cultural Studies

Social Sciences, general

Imperialism and Colonialism

Social History

Cultural Anthropology

Africa Politics and government 1960- Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 The Polis: From Greece to an African Athens; Chapter 2 The Order/Other of Political Culture; Chapter 3 Urbanscapes; Chapter 4 Youth, Violence, and the Production of Knowledge; Chapter 5 (Mis)Understanding Mbekism; Chapter 6 Global Activism and Discourses of Dispossession in South Africa; Chapter 7 African Sexualities I; Chapter 8 African Sexualities II; Conclusion Yearnings of Modernity; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist notions of democratization.