Contested terrains and constructed categories : contemporary Africa in focus /: contemporary Africa in focus. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: George Bond and Nigel Gibson.
• Authors: Bond, George C; Gibson, Nigel C
• Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Challenging Modes of Thinking: Making Maps and Mapping History -- “So Geographers in Africa Maps with Savage Pictures Fill Their Gaps” -- The Challenges of Writing African Economic History -- Contested Categories: Economy, Politics, and Society -- Structural Adjustment -- Poverty Profile in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Civil Society, Pluralism, Goldilocks, and Other Fairy Tales in Africa -- Beyond the State and Civil Society -- Silencing Power -- Negotiating Identity in Post-Settlement South Africa -- Negotiable Property -- Violence of the Word/Violence Against the Body -- Mapping Africa’s Presences -- Contesting Terrains Over a Massacre -- Negotiating Postwar Identities -- Sex and the Politics of Space in Colonial Zimbabwe -- Girls, Sex, and the Dangers of Urban Schooling in Coastal Madagascar -- The Moving Frontier of AIDS in Uganda -- Contested Claims and Individual Bodies
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (450 pages)
• Subjects: 306.096; Ethnology -- Africa; Knowledge, Sociology of; Africa -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429980978; 0429980973
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.