Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities

by Stephen Jackson and Beth A. Buggenhagen

The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obvious and obfuscating. This collection by leading ethnographers moves beyond the rhetoric of African crisis to theorize people's everyday practices under volatile conditions not of their own making. From Ghanaian hiplife music to the U.S. "diversity lottery" in Togo, from politicos in C?te d'Ivoire to squatters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520098749
• ISBN13: 9780520098749
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"