Situating Globality

African Agency in the Appropriation of Global Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13133-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: African Dynamics

Situating Globality challenges the dominant view that globalization is a primary threat to African societies and economies. It explores how these societies are appropriating elements of the emerging global culture, arguing the significance of this appropriation in local struggles, the expression of critical thinking, ideologies and ritual styles of behaviour. Combining an interest for micro-level processes of situating the multifaceted process of globality with the exploration of reflexivity, creativity and the production of knowledge, Situating Globality straddles the divide between anthropological and philosophical representations of Africa in the new world order. The first section examines philosophical issues relating to the production of knowledge in and about Africa from a globalizing perspective, while the other sections include case studies showing how these processes are accommodated in everyday life.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the cultural study of globalization in terms of anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, political science and international relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Binsbergen, Wim Van

Dijk, Rijk Van

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Maps vii
Photographs vii

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1 Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture 3
Wim van Binsbergen, Rijk van Dijk & Jan-Bart Gewald

PART II: GLOBALITY THROUGH APPROPRIATION: ANALYSES AT THE
CONTINENTAL LEVEL
2 Global and local trends in media ownership and control: Implications for cultural creativity in Africa 57
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
3 Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia 90
Jan-Bart Gewald
4 Can ICT belong in Africa, or is ICT owned by the North Atlantic region? 107
Wim van Binsbergen
5 ‘Man will live well’: On the poetics of corruption in a global age 147
Sanya Osha

PART III: GLOBALITY THROUGH WORLD RELIGIONS
6 ‘Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia’: Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain 163
Rijk van Dijk
7 Global connections, local ruptures: The case of Islam in Senegal 190
Roy Dilley
8 How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth and women’s value in an Islamic town of Niger 220
Adeline Masquelier

PART IV: GLOBALITY AND AFRICAN HISTORIC RELIGIONS
9 The social life of secrets 257
Ferdinand de Jong
10 The persistence of female initiation rites: Reflexivity and resilience of women in Zambia 277
Thera Rasing

List of authors 311

Über Autor(innen)

Wim van Binsbergen is Professor of Intercultural Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre. His research interests include religion in Africa, intercultural philosophy, African and Ancient history, Afrocentricity, ethnicity, and globalization. He has pursued these interests in Tunisia, Zambia, Guinea Bissau, and Botswana, besides historical projects on South Central Africa and the Ancient Near East.
Rijk van Dijk is an Anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre working on the modern dynamics of religion and globalization in Africa, with a particular interest in Pentecostalism and transnationalism in Ghana, Botswana and Malawi.