LEADER 04939nam 22006855 450 001 9910154296403321 005 20230124193917.0 010 $a0-226-40238-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226402413 035 $a(CKB)3710000000964594 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4756728 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001740872 035 $a(DE-B1597)524468 035 $a(OCoLC)1005017685 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226402413 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000964594 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aAfrican Futures $eEssays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility /$fJuan Obarrio, Brian Goldstone 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (274 pages) 300 $aMost contributions derive from an invited session on "African Futures in Crisis", held at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans in 2010. 311 08$aPrint version : 9780226402246 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tOne. Introduction: Untimely Africa? / $rGoldstone, Brian / Obarrio, Juan -- $tPart One. Rethinking Crisis -- $tTwo. Africa Otherwise / $rRoitman, Janet -- $tThree. The Form of Crisis and the Affect of Modernization / $rLarkin, Brian -- $tFour. The Productivity of Crisis: Aid, Time, and Medicine in Mozambique / $rMcKay, Ramah -- $tPart Two. Emergent Economies -- $tFive. Money in the Future of Africans / $rGuyer, Jane I. -- $tSix. Forensics of Capital / $rRalph, Michael -- $tSeven. Brokering Revolution: Imagining Future War on the West African Borderlands / $rHoffman, Danny -- $tEight. Hedging the Future / $rPiot, Charles -- $tNine. Entangled Postcolonial Futures: Malagasy Marriage Migrants and Provincial Frenchmen / $rCole, Jennifer -- $tPart Three. Urban Spaces and Local Futures -- $tTen. Rough Towns: Mobilizing Uncertainty in Kinshasa / $rSimone, Abdoumaliq -- $tEleven. Local Futures, the Future of the Local: Urban Living in a Central African Metropolis / $rBoeck, Filip de -- $tTwelve. Changing Mobilities, Shifting Futures / $rGeschiere, Peter / Socpa, Antoine -- $tThirteen. Time and Again: Locality as Future Anterior in Mozambique / $rObarrio, Juan -- $tPart Four. Possibilities -- $tFourteen. Getting Ahead When We're Behind: Time, Potential, and Value in Urban Tanzania / $rWeiss, Brad -- $tFifteen. Africa in Theory / $rMbembe, Achille -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tReferences -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aCivil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola-but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed? The experts in this book address Africa's future as it is embedded within various social and cultural forms emerging on the continent today: the reconfiguration of the urban, the efflorescence of signs and wonders and gospels of prosperity, the assorted techniques of legality and illegality, lotteries and Ponzi schemes, apocalyptic visions, a yearning for exile, and many other phenomena. Bringing together social, political, religious, and economic viewpoints, the book reveals not one but multiple prospects for the future of Africa. In doing so, it offers a pathbreaking model of pluralistic and open-ended thinking and a powerful tool for addressing the vexing uncertainties that underlie so many futures around the world. 606 $aAfrica 606 $acrisis 606 $aemergence 606 $afuturity 606 $atemporality 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General$2bisacsh 607 $aAfrica$xSocial conditions$y21st century$vCongresses 607 $aAfrica$xForecasting$vCongresses 610 $aAfrica. 610 $acrisis. 610 $aemergence. 610 $afuturity. 610 $atemporality. 615 4$aAfrica. 615 4$acrisis. 615 4$aemergence. 615 4$afuturity. 615 4$atemporality. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General. 676 $a306.096 702 $aGoldstone$b Brian, 702 $aObarrio$b Juan, 712 02$aAmerican Anthropological Association.$bAnnual Meeting$d(109th :$f2010 :$eNew Orleans, La.) 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154296403321 996 $aAfrican Futures$92060362 997 $aUNINA