Rubbers / Jedlowski Regimes of Responsibility in Africa

Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-360-8
Verlag: Berghahn
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E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Regimes of Responsibility in Africa ­analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection develops a stronger grasp of the specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same time, while focusing on case studies from the African continent, the work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, adding to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rubbers, Benjamin

Jedlowski, Alessandro

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts

Benjamin Rubbers and Alessandro Jedlowski

Chapter 1. Historical Regimes of Responsibility in ‘The Politics of the Belly’

Jean-François Bayart

Chapter 2. The Use(fulness) of Discourses of 'Responsibility' on the DRC's ‘Sovereign Frontier’

Stylianos Moshonas

Chapter 3. High Officials’ Responsibility and State Accountability in the Age of Neoliberal Discharge: Views from Mozambique

Rozenn Nakanabo Diallo

Chapter 4. Reproduction, Responsibility and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire

Armando Cutolo and Giulia Almagioni

Chapter 5. Human Care or Human Capital: Corporate Responsibility and HIV Management at South Africa’s Mines

Dinah Rajak

Chapter 6. For What Are Persons With Disabilities Responsible? The Study of Public, Social and Family Responsibilities in the Context of Locomotor Disability (Cape Flats, South Africa)

Marie Schnitzler

Chapter 7. Diverting Makila Mabe: Understanding Responsibility in Kinshasa’s Pentecostal Worlds

Katrien Pype

Chapter 8. The (Ir)Responsible Witch: Ambiguities among the Maka of Southeast Cameroon

Peter Geschiere

Chapter 9. The ‘Return of Culture’: Spiritual Threats, Asylum Policies and the Responsibility of Anthropological Knowledge

Roberto Beneduce

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jedlowski, Alessandro
Alessandro Jedlowski is a media anthropologist and the co-chair of the “African Diasporas” programme of the African Studies research centre Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM) at the Bordeaux School of Political Sciences (Sciences Po Bordeaux).

Rubbers, Benjamin
Benjamin Rubbers is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Liège, Belgium. He is also the author of three monographs and numerous journal articles and book chapters on the Congolese Copperbelt, which he has frequently visited on fieldtrips since 1999.

Benjamin Rubbers is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Liège, Belgium. He is also the author of three monographs and numerous journal articles and book chapters on the Congolese Copperbelt, which he has frequently visited on fieldtrips since 1999.