Urban Dreams

Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-376-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods, Roth’s work calls into question established notions of “the African family” as a solidary network, documents changing marriage and kinship relations under the impact of a persistent economic crisis, and explores the increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roth, Claudia

Jong, Willemijn De

Perlik, Manfred

Steuer, Noemi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Claudia Roth’s Work on Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso

Willemijn de Jong



PART I: ETHNOGRAPHY AND REFLEXIVITY

Chapter 1. Culture Shock, Power and Knowledge: Negotiating Boundaries in Ethnographic Fieldwork

PART II: NEGOTIATING LOVE AND MARRIAGE

Chapter 2. Beware When the Women of Bobo Dress Up!: An Ethnographic Contribution

Chapter 3. “What is Love?”: Changing Matrimony in Bobo-Dioulasso – A Case Study

Chapter 4. Social Security and Gender: Marital Crisis as a Mirror of the Economic Crisis

PART III: ELDERLY PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN: SHARING OR LIVING IN POVERTY

Chapter 5. Blood Ties as a Social Network: The African Extended Family as an Economic Association

Chapter 6. The Invisible Impoverishment of the Elderly in Bobo-Dioulasso

Chapter 7. 'Shameful': The Inverted Intergenerational Contract in Bobo-Dioulasso

Chapter 8. The Strength of Badenya Ties: Siblings and Social Security in Old Age – The Case of Urban Burkina Faso

PART IV: YOUTH: DREAMS AND HARDSHIPS

Chapter 9. Tea and Dreams: Men’s Generational Conflict in Bobo-Dioulasso

Chapter 10. Between Dreams of Grandeur and Pragmatism: Young People in Urban Burkina Faso

Publications of Claudia Roth

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Perlik, Manfred
Manfred Perlik is Professor the Universities of Bern (Centre for Development and Environment) and Grenoble-Alpes (UMR Pacte).

Roth, Claudia
Claudia Roth (1955–2012) taught and conducted anthropological research at the Universities of Zurich, Bern, and Lucerne. She served on the board of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and was a member of the International Mande Studies Association (MANSA). Urban Dreams is the first collection of her work to appear in English.

Jong, Willemijn De
Willemijn de Jong is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich.

Steuer, Noemi
Noemi Steuer (1957-2020) was a researcher at the Center for African Studies, University of Basel.

Heinzpeter Znoj is Professor at the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern.

Claudia Roth (1955–2012) taught and conducted anthropological research at the Universities of Zurich, Bern, and Lucerne. She served on the board of the Swiss Society for African Studies (SGAS/SSEA) and was a member of the International Mande Studies Association (MANSA). Urban Dreams is the first collection of her work to appear in English.