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Negotiating Conviviality

Author : Hay, Paula L.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956792721
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Conviviality written by Hay, Paula L. and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ethnographic study of a group of migrants in Cape Town from Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It seeks to understand how migrants overcome structural exclusion by forming and maintaining convivial relationships through the Bay Community Church and how this is facilitated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The book argues that ICTs are implicated in the negotiation of conviviality. ICTs allow for a negotiation of intimacy and distance; although their functions may facilitate more contact than is desired or further distance those already separated physically. This book interrogates the strict division between ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ and highlights that migrants are able to sustain multiple networks and relationships, linking their home and host countries. Despite increasingly strict border control and animosity from host communities, migrants are able to overcome imposed identities such as ‘outsider’. They do so by using ICTs such as cell phones and Facebook to emphasise their Christian identity, which is one of the main factors for inclusion in church-based networks. Membership with a mixed denominational church such as the Bay further challenges the notion that migrants stick to themselves. Inclusive communities such as the Bay and everyday desires for conviviality evoke the need to reconsider policies too narrowly articulated around the dichotomisation of ‘foreigners’ and ‘nationals’, ‘home’ and ‘away’, ‘us’ and ‘them’.

Comparing Conviviality

Author : Tilmann Heil
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030347176
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Comparing Conviviality written by Tilmann Heil and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where difference is often seen as a threat or challenge, Comparing Conviviality explores how people actually live in diverse societies. Based on a long-term ethnography of West Africans in both Senegal and Spain, this book proposes that conviviality is a commitment to difference, across ethnicities, languages, religions, and practices. Heil brings together longstanding histories, political projects, and everyday practices of living with difference. With a focus on neighbourhood life in Casamance, Senegal, and Catalonia, Spain - two equally complex regions - Comparing Conviviality depicts how Senegalese people skillfully negotiate and translate the intricacies of difference and power. In these lived African and European worlds, conviviality is ever temporary and changing. This book offers a textured, realist, yet hopeful understanding of difference, social change, power, and respect. It will be invaluable to students and scholars of African, migration, and diversity studies across anthropology, sociology, geography, political sciences, and law.

African Virtues in the Pursuit of Conviviality

Author : Gebre,Yntiso Gebre,Yntiso
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956764787
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book African Virtues in the Pursuit of Conviviality written by Gebre,Yntiso Gebre,Yntiso and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African societies have rich histories, cultural heritages, knowledge systems, philosophies, and institutions that they have shaped and reshaped through history. However, the continent has been repeatedly portrayed negatively as plagued by multitudinous troubles: famine, conflict, coup, massacres, corruption, disease, illiteracy, refugees, failed state, etc. Even worse, Africans are often viewed as incapable of addressing their problems on their own. Based on such erroneous perspectives and paternalism, exogenous solutions are prescribed, out of context, for African problems. This book sheds light on the positive aspects of African reality under the key concept of African potentials. It is the product of sustained consultation over a five-year period between seasoned African and Japanese anthropologists, sociologists and scholars in other areas of African studies.

Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies

Author : Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131760069X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies written by Steven Vertovec and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the concept of ‘diversity’ has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, ‘diversity’ tends to refer to patterns of social difference in terms of certain key categories. Today the foremost categories shaping discourses and policies of diversity include race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, sexuality and age; further important notions include class, language, locality, lifestyle and legal status. The Routledge Handbook of Diversity Studies will examine a range of such concepts along with historical and contemporary cases concerning social and political dynamics surrounding them. With contributions by experts spanning Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, History and Geography, the Handbook will be a key resource for students, social scientists and professionals. It will represent a landmark volume within a field that has become, and will continue to be, one of the most significant global topics of concern throughout the twenty-first century.

Research Handbook on Migration and Education

Author : Halleli Pinson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839106360
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Migration and Education written by Halleli Pinson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing to the shaping of education and migration as a distinct field of research, this forward-looking Research Handbook explores cross-cutting questions on the range of challenges facing education systems, migrant children and students today.

Conviviality in Bellville. An Ethnography of Space, Place, Mobility and Being in Urban South Africa

Author : Ingrid Brudvig
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956792861
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Book Synopsis Conviviality in Bellville. An Ethnography of Space, Place, Mobility and Being in Urban South Africa by : Ingrid Brudvig

Download or read book Conviviality in Bellville. An Ethnography of Space, Place, Mobility and Being in Urban South Africa written by Ingrid Brudvig and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insight into the experiences of mobility and migration in contemporary South Africa, contributing to a field of literature about multiculturalism and urban public space in globalizing cities. It takes into consideration the greater international political and local socio-economic factors that drive migration, relationships and conviviality, and how they are intertwined in the everyday narrative of insiders and outsiders. The Bellville central business district demonstrates the realities of interconnected local and global hierarchies of citizenship and belonging and how they emerge in a world of accelerated mobility. The book further demonstrates how the emergence of conviviality in everyday public life represents a critical field for contemplating contemporary notions of human rights, citizenship and belonging.

Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship

Author : B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956552402
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Book Synopsis Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship by : B. Nyamnjoh

Download or read book Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship written by B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of how Donald J. Trump, his populist credentials notwithstanding, borrows without acknowledgment and stubbornly refuses to come to terms with his indebtedness. Taken together with mobility and conviviality, the principle of incompleteness enables us to distinguish between inclusionary and exclusionary forms of populism, and when it is fuelled by ambitions of superiority and zero-sum games of conquest.

Conviviality at the Crossroads

Author : Oscar Hemer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030289796
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Conviviality at the Crossroads written by Oscar Hemer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a post-industrial convivial society of ‘autonomous individuals and primary groups’ (Illich 1973), which resembles present-day manifestations of ‘convivialism’. Paul Gilroy refashioned conviviality as a substitute for cosmopolitanism, denoting an ability to be ‘at ease’ in contexts of diversity (Gilroy 2004). Rather than replacing one concept with the other, the fourteen contributors to this book seek to explore the interconnections – commonalities and differences – between them, suggesting that creolisation is a necessary complement to the already-intertwined concepts of conviviality and cosmopolitanism. Although this volume takes northern Europe as its focus, the contributors take care to put each situation in historical and global contexts in the interests of moving beyond the binary thinking that prevails in terms of methodologies, analytical concepts, and political implementations.

Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Cities

Author : Alina Rzepnikowska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135123353X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Cities written by Alina Rzepnikowska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large-scale migration brought about by the expansion of the EU over a decade ago led to migration from less ethnically diverse countries to multicultural and super-diverse societies. This book examines the complex encounters between Polish migrant women and local populations in Manchester and Barcelona, with attention to the ways in which difference is negotiated and managed through everyday practices of conviviality, which help to overcome hierarchies and create elements of sameness. Illustrating how cultural differences may become important resources for interaction that facilitates positive relationships, Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Cities draws on the narratives of Polish migrant women to shed new light on everyday social relations between migrant women and local populations, including settled ethnic minorities and other migrants. In doing so, it contributes to our understanding of the positional nature of racial identification and complicates our ideas of whiteness and privilege.

Rethinking Marginality in South Africa

Author : Powell, Crystal
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956792020
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Marginality in South Africa written by Powell, Crystal and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2014-07-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be marginal? For residents of Cape Town's Langa Township, being considered marginal is subject to a host of social, physical and sometimes materialistic qualifications - not least of which is owning a mobile phone. Through various presentations of unique aspects of township life revealed through ethnographic snapshots, this book reveals the complex realities of marginalization experienced by some residents in Langa Township, located in Cape Town, South Africa. Mobile phones have been embraced and accommodated by both local South Africans and African immigrant residents living and working in Langa. Among other things, the technology has become a way of challenging (real and imagined) marginalities within the township in particular and South Africa in general. The book provides empirical data on the role of technology in regards to migration and notions of belonging; specifically the ways that technology has mitigated distance for residents, provided opportunities for development, facilitated the negotiation of various marginalities, and offered new ways of belonging for Langa residents.

Negotiating Conviviality

Author : L. Hay
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956792373
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Conviviality written by L. Hay and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ethnographic study of a group of migrants in Cape Town from Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. It seeks to understand how migrants overcome structural exclusion by forming and maintaining convivial relationships through the Bay Community Church and how this is facilitated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The book argues that ICTs are implicated in the negotiation of conviviality. ICTs allow for a negotiation of intimacy and distance; although their functions may facilitate more contact than is desired or further distance those already separated physically. This book interrogates the strict division between insiders and outsiders and highlights that migrants are able to sustain multiple networks and relationships, linking their home and host countries. Despite increasingly strict border control and animosity from host communities, migrants are able to overcome imposed identities such as outsider. They do so by using ICTs such as cell phones and Facebook to emphasise their Christian identity, which is one of the main factors for inclusion in church-based networks. Membership with a mixed denominational church such as the Bay further challenges the notion that migrants stick to themselves. Inclusive communities such as the Bay and everyday desires for conviviality evoke the need to reconsider policies too narrowly articulated around the dichotomisation of foreigners and nationals, home and away, us and them.

Bridging Mobilities

Author : M. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956791180
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Bridging Mobilities written by M. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study on the creative appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by mobile Africans and the communities to which they belong, home and away. With a focus on Cameroonian migrants from Pinyin and Mankon who are currently living in Cape Town and the Netherlands, this book examines the workings of the social fabric of mobile communities. It sheds light on how these communities are crafting lives for themselves in the host country and simultaneously linking up with the home country thanks to advances in ICTs and road and air transport. ICTs and mobilities have complemented social relational interaction and provide migrants today with opportunities to partake in cultural practices that express their Pinyin-ness and Mankon-ness. Pinyin and Mankon migrants are still as rooted in the past as they are in the present. They were born into a community with its own sense of home, moral ethos and cultural pride but live in a context of accelerated ICTs and mobility that is fast changing the way they live their lives. Drawing on this detailed ethnographic case study and related literature, Henrietta Nyamnjoh argues that while ICTs continue to enhance mobility for those who move and for those who stay put, they have become inextricably linked in forging networks and reconfiguring existing ones. Contrary to earlier studies that predicted radical social change and the passing of traditional societies in the face of new technologies, ICTs have been appropriated to enhance the workings of existing social relations and ways of life while simultaneously pointing to new directions in ever more creative and innovative ways.

Convivial Constellations in Latin America

Author : Luciane Scarato
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000093360
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convivial Constellations in Latin America written by Luciane Scarato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives on conviviality, this book considers the ways in which Latin America, a continent marked by deep inequalities, has managed to afford, create, sustain, and contest forms of living together with difference across time and space. Interdisciplinary in approach and presenting studies from various nations across the continent – from the medieval period to the present day – it considers the ways in which Latin America might contribute to our understanding of the relationship between inequality, difference, diversity, and sociability. As such, it will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, geography, anthropology, development studies, postcolonial and social theory with interests in Latin American studies, and in the contingencies and contradictions of living together in profoundly unequal societies.

Negotiating National Identities

Author : Dr Christian Karner
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409494365
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating National Identities written by Dr Christian Karner and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating National Identities presents an empirically detailed and theoretically wide-ranging analysis of the complex political and cultural struggles taking place in contemporary Europe. Taking contemporary Austria and her controversial identity politics as its central case study in a discussion of developments across a variety of national and pan-European contexts, this book demonstrates that neo-nationalism has been one among several competing reactions to the processes and challenges of globalization, whilst inclusive notions of identity and belonging are shown to have emerged from the realms of civil society and cultural production. Shifting the study of national identities from the party-political to the social, cultural and economic realms, this book raises important questions of human rights, social exclusion and ideological struggle in a globalizing era, drawing attention to the contested nature of European politics and civil societies, in which existing configurations of power and exclusion are both reproduced and challenged. As such, it will be of interest to anyone working in the fields of race and ethnicity, national identity and media and cultural studies.

Development Perspectives from the South

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956764973
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Development Perspectives from the South written by Mawere, Munyaradzi and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so long ago, The Economist described Africa as a hopeless continent. This damning description specifically referred to the development status of Africa. While the debate on the political and socio-economic [under-]development of Africa had been raging on prior to the Economist’s daring but controversial pronouncements, it intensified from thereon. Many concerned people from within the continent and elsewhere have reproved the proclamation but mainly in newspapers and the broadcast media. Not enough has been done by development scholars to critically reflect on the description and status of Africa’s development condition in a nuanced and systematic fashion. Yet, it is through incisive reflections and systematic engagements with Africa’s situations and circumstances that directions and solutions to the African development predicament could be forged. The present volume is an attempt to open up a constructive dialogue between the Global North and the Global South on the African [under-]development conundrum. The book is an eye opener to African governments, social scientists, policy makers and development scholars concerned with the urgent need to rethink, reimagine and retheorise Africa’s development gridlock.

Modernising Traditions and Traditionalising Modernity in Africa

Author : B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956762792
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Modernising Traditions and Traditionalising Modernity in Africa written by B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chieftaincy in Africa has displayed remarkable dynamics and adaptability to new socio-economic and political developments, without becoming totally transformed in the process. Almost everywhere on the continent, chiefdoms and chiefs have become active agents in the quest for ethnic, cultural symbols as a way of maximising opportunities at the centre of bureaucratic and state power, and at the home village where control over land and labour often require both financial and symbolic capital. Chieftaincy remains central to ongoing efforts at developing democracy and accountability in line with the expectations of Africans as individual citizens and also as subjects of various cultural communities. This book uses Cameroon and Botswana as case studies, to argue that the rigidity and prescriptiveness of modernist partial theories have left a major gap in scholarship on chiefs and chieftaincy in Africa. It stresses that studies of domesticated agency in Africa are sorely needed to capture the creative ongoing processes and to avoid overemphasising structures and essentialist perceptions on chieftaincy and the cultural communities that claim and are claimed by it.

Press Freedom in Africa

Author : Herman Wasserman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135716366
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Press Freedom in Africa written by Herman Wasserman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an overview of current debates surrounding press freedom in Africa in response to ongoing contestations between media and governments on the continent. Through case studies of individual African countries as well as international comparisons, a wide range of global contributors provide critical assessments of the state of press freedom on the continent and critical perspectives on the dominant discourses around freedom and democracy. Some fear an alarming slide towards a media-intolerant environment in South Africa, and the proposed Media Appeals Tribunal and the Protection of State Information Bill (POSIB) have met with strong criticism from journalism practitioners and educators. This book examines these and other recent developments seen to represent a threat to press freedom on the African continent. Contributors to the volume take a comparative look at the situation in South Africa within a broader, global context of transitions to democracy and globalised marketization of the media, as well as inspecting specific African examples that may serve to illuminate broader trends. Case studies from different African countries are examined, but in the process the discourses around press freedom are also subjected to critical scrutiny. Critics state that the South African media are not without fault, and that part of journalism scholarship’s role is to continue to point to these shortcomings and to suggest ways of improving the media’s democratic responsibility. Press Freedom in Africa provides a range of perspectives on the heated debates surrounding press freedom. It illustrates the importance of research-based, scholarly interventions into the often emotional and rhetorical debates surrounding the role of the media in African society. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies.