African Postcolonial Modernity [[electronic resource] ] : Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus / / by S. Osha

• Autore: Osha S
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2014.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.96
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Politics and government 1960- Philosophy
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: African Postcolonial Modernity
• ISBN: 1-349-49617-0; 1-137-44693-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821955903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: African Histories and Modernities, . 2634-5773