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Sociality Revisited The Use Of The Internet And Mobile Phones In Urban Cameroon
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Book Synopsis Sociality Revisited? The Use of the Internet and Mobile Phones in Urban Cameroon by : Bettina Anja Frei
Download or read book Sociality Revisited? The Use of the Internet and Mobile Phones in Urban Cameroon written by Bettina Anja Frei and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the perspectives of non-migrants and urban youth in Bamenda, in the Northwest region of Cameroon, as well as on the views of Cameroonian migrants in Switzerland, to explore the meaning and role of New Media in the negotiation of sociality in transnational migration. New Media facilitated connectedness serve as a privileged lens through which Cameroonians, home and away, scrutinise and mediate sociality. In this rich ethnography, Bettina Frei describes how the internet and mobile phones are adopted by migrants and their non-migrant counterparts in order to maintain transnational relationships, and how the specific medialities of these communication technologies in turn impact on transnational sociality. Contrary to popular presumptions that New Media are experienced as mainly connecting and enabling, this study reveals that in a transnational context in particular, New Media serve to mediate tensions in transnational social ties. The expectations of being connected go hand in hand with an awareness of social and geographical distance and separation.
Book Synopsis Urban Life-Worlds in Motion by : Hans Peter Hahn
Download or read book Urban Life-Worlds in Motion written by Hans Peter Hahn and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly to Africa, where cities have the highest growth rates world-wide and where the urban population is younger than anywhere else. Urban life-worlds are the basis for the development of new lifestyles and new cultural phenomena. Based on empirical ethnographic research, this book presents case studies that enhance our understanding of the dynamics of urbanity in Africa and beyond - by envisioning cities as crossroads where cultures, biographies and networks meet.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Marginality in South Africa by : Crystal Powell
Download or read book Rethinking Marginality in South Africa written by Crystal Powell and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be marginal? For residents of Cape Towns 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.
Book Synopsis Being Available and Reachable by : Mbeanwoah Tazanu
Download or read book Being Available and Reachable written by Mbeanwoah Tazanu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book investigates what have become of Cameroonian transnational family and friendship ties in the age of the mobile phone and the internet that make people readily available and reachable. Most theoretical literature states that these tools of sociality cement transnational social relationships through instantaneous interaction. To capture the different experiences and impressions on the significance of these media in easing communication for migrants and non-migrants, Tazanu draws on ethnographic accounts based on his fieldwork in Freiburg (Germany) and Buea (Cameroon). He argues that it is mainly the migrants who maintain or are expected to maintain ties with non-migrants back in Cameroon through calls and material support. The main finding of the study is that cell phones and the internet have facilitated discontents, grudges, insults, fights, avoidance, arguments and estrangement of relationships much more than they have contributed to binding friends or families through direct mediation. Underlying these aspects of distanciation are the high expectations and sometimes contradictory motives for instant virtual interaction. Non-migrants accounts suggest that direct availability and reachability should lead to uninterrupted transnational interaction and also that the cultural practices of remittances from migrants are easily requested and coordinated. Such motives are generally contrary to migrants wishes, willingness or ability to support friends and families in Cameroon. These unexpected outcomes arising from rapid speed of interaction questions the advantages that are often associated with instant sociality across space and time. The finding is a call for the cultural background and life-world experiences of media users to be taken into consideration when theorising the significance of information technology in the debate on media globalisation.
Book Synopsis C est l homme qui fait l homme by : Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Download or read book C est l homme qui fait l homme written by Francis B. Nyamnjoh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that human beings are inextricably bound to one another is at the heart of this book about African agency, especially drawing on the African philosophy Ubuntu, with its roots in human sociality and inclusivity. Ubuntu’s precepts and workings are severely tested in these times of rapid change and multiple responsibilities. Africans negotiate their social existence between urban and rural life, their continental and transcontinental distances, and all the market forces that now impinge, with relationships and loyalties placed in question. Between ideal and reality, dreams and schemes, how is Ubuntu actualized, misappropriated and endangered? The book unearths the intrigues and contradictions that go with inclusivity in Africa. Basing his argument on the ideals of trust, conviviality and support embodied in the concept of Ubuntu, Francis Nyamnjoh demonstrates how the pursuit of personal success and even self-aggrandizement challenges these ideals, thus leading to discord in social relationships. Nyamnjoh uses a popular Ivorian drama with the same title to substantiate life-world realities and more importantly to demonstrate that new forms of expression, from popular drama to fiction, thicken and enrich the ethnographic component in current anthropology.
Book Synopsis Regimes of Mobility by : Noel B. Salazar
Download or read book Regimes of Mobility written by Noel B. Salazar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global ‘flows’ of capital, people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated. Within this new scholarship, categories of migrancy are all seen through the same analytical lens. This book builds on, as well as critiques, past and present studies of mobility. In so doing, it challenges conceptual orientations built on binaries of difference that have impeded analyses of the interrelationship between mobility and stasis. These include methodological nationalism, which counterpoises concepts of internal and international movement and native and foreigner, and consequently normalises stasis. Instead, the book proposes a ‘regimes of mobility’ framework that addresses the relationships between mobility and immobility, localisation and transnational connection, experiences and imaginaries of migration, and rootedness and cosmopolitan openness. Within this framework and its emphasis on social fields of differential power, the various contributors to this collection ethnographically explore the disparities, inequalities, racialised representations and national mythscapes that facilitate and legitimate differential mobility and fixity. Although they examine nation-state building processes, the anthropological analysis is not confined by national boundaries. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Book Synopsis The African Book Publishing Record by :
Download or read book The African Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Das Deutsch der Migranten by : Arnulf Deppermann
Download or read book Das Deutsch der Migranten written by Arnulf Deppermann and published by De Gruyter Mouton. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration verändert unsere Gesellschaft nachhaltig. Sprache spielt dabei die zentrale Rolle. Sprachlich-kommunikative Prozesse bestimmen Bildungs- und Karrierechancen der Migranten, die kulturelle Teilhabe an Herkunfts- und Aufnahmekultur und die Herstellung von interpersoneller Solidarität, Ab- und Ausgrenzung. DerJahrgangsband 2012widmet sich dem Deutsch der Migranten in seinen linguistischen, soziologischen und pädagogischen Dimensionen. Im Brennpunkt steht, wie Migranten das Deutsche erwerben, verändern und in Relation zu den Herkunftssprachen benutzen: Wie gestaltet sich der Erwerb von Deutsch als Zweitsprache unter dem Einfluss unterschiedlicher Erstsprachen? Welche ein- und mehrsprachigen Weisen des Sprechens und Schreibens benutzen Migranten? Welche strukturellen Besonderheiten weist ihr Deutsch auf? Welche Rolle spielen Sprache und Kommunikation für die Ausbildung, Bewahrung und Transformation von Identitätsentwürfen und biographischen Selbstverständnissen? Wie gestalten sich Prozesse der sprachlichen Kommunikation von Migranten und Einheimischen? Wie hängen Sprache, Bildungs- und Berufssituation der Migranten zusammen?
