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Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities

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Makhulu, A-M; Buggenhagen, BA; Jackson, S
2010

The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obvious and obfuscating. This collection by leading ethnographers moves beyond the rhetoric of African crisis to theorize people’s everyday practices under volatile conditions not of their own making. From Ghanaian hiplife music to the U.S. "diversity lottery" in Togo, from politicos in Côte d’Ivoire to squatters in South Africa, the essays in Hard Work, Hard Times uncover the imaginative ways in which African subjects make and remake themselves and their worlds, and thus make do, get by, get over, and sometimes thrive.

Duke Scholars

Publication Date

2010

Publisher

University of California Press
 

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Makhulu, A.-M., Buggenhagen, B. A., & Jackson, S. (2010). Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. University of California Press.
Makhulu, A. -. M., B. A. Buggenhagen, and S. Jackson. Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. University of California Press, 2010.
Makhulu A-M, Buggenhagen BA, Jackson S. Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. University of California Press; 2010.
Makhulu, A. .. M., et al. Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. University of California Press, 2010.
Makhulu A-M, Buggenhagen BA, Jackson S. Hard Work, Hard Times: Global Volatility and African Subjectivities. University of California Press; 2010.

Publication Date

2010

Publisher

University of California Press