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Fatal misconceptions: colonial durabilities, violence and epistemicide in Africa’s Great Lakes Region 致命的误解:非洲大湖地区的殖民持久性、暴力和知识灭绝

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2059901

C. Mertens, Stéphanie Perazzone, David Mwambari

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引用次数: 4

Accounting for which violent past? transitional justice, epistemic violence, and colonial durabilities in Burundi 解释哪一个暴力的过去?布隆迪的过渡司法、认知暴力和殖民持久性

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2039733

Astrid Jamar

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引用次数: 2

Chinese-manufactured commodities and African agency in the democratization of consumption: the example of electronic devices in Cameroon 消费民主化中的中国制造商品与非洲代理:以喀麦隆电子设备为例

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-27 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1977158

Ute Röschenthaler

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引用次数: 2

Bringing inside out: humour, outreach, and sexual and gender-based violence in Sierra Leone 从内到外:塞拉利昂的幽默、外联、性暴力和性别暴力

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.2005378

Laura S. Martin, C. Bradbury‐Jones, Simeon Koroma, Stephen Forcer

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引用次数: 3

Neoliberalism and the state in the African city: informality, accumulation and the rebirth of a Ugandan market 非洲城市中的新自由主义与国家:非正式、积累与乌干达市场的重生

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1999834

Graeme Young

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引用次数: 1

The political economy of informal dog breeding businesses in Harare’s high-density suburbs, Zimbabwe, 1990-2019. 1990-2019年，津巴布韦哈拉雷高密度郊区非正规养狗企业的政治经济学。

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.2005377

Innocent Dande

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引用次数: 0

Representing Johannesburg in transformation: urban experience, imageries, and the work of art by David Koloane, Jo Ractliffe and Anthea Moys 代表转型中的约翰内斯堡:David Koloane、Jo Ractliffe和Anthea Moys的城市体验、图像和艺术作品

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1999833

Fiona Siegenthaler

{"title":"Representing Johannesburg in transformation: urban experience, imageries, and the work of art by David Koloane, Jo Ractliffe and Anthea Moys","authors":"Fiona Siegenthaler","doi":"10.1080/21681392.2021.1999833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2021.1999833","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on artistic engagements with urban change in Johannesburg. The guiding questions are: (1) How do artists perceive and reflect urbanity, social change, and the transition of inner-city Johannesburg within their work? (2) In what ways can artworks contribute to Southern theories and decolonial and pluriversal conceptions of the city? The paper consists of three parts. The first offers a conceptual framing of the relationship between images, imageries, and imagination and their relation to artistic representation and practice. The second part focuses on the work of David Koloane, Jo Ractliffe and Anthea Moys between the late 1990s and the early 2010s, whose artistic work relates in various ways to urban imaginaries, individual experience, and the visual representation of Johannesburg. Inspired by the concepts of cityness and invisibility (Simone), the third part of the paper discusses the interplay between individual positionality and urban experience, the role of socio-political discourses and urban imageries for the artistic expression as well as the potential of such analysis for theorizing urban life and its artistic representations from pluriversal perspectives, as suggested by proponents of decolonial theories.","PeriodicalId":37966,"journal":{"name":"Critical African Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77007562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

‘Don’t you want us to eat?’: the moral economy of a Ugandan marketplace:‘Ne voulez-vous pas que nous mangions?’: L’économie morale d’un marché ougandais “你不想让我们吃吗?”乌干达市场的道德经济:“你不想让我们吃吗?”乌干达市场的道德经济

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-26 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1964996

W. Monteith, L. Camfield

{"title":"‘Don’t you want us to eat?’: the moral economy of a Ugandan marketplace:‘Ne voulez-vous pas que nous mangions?’: L’économie morale d’un marché ougandais","authors":"W. Monteith, L. Camfield","doi":"10.1080/21681392.2021.1964996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2021.1964996","url":null,"abstract":"Marketplaces have long provided a context for observing the negotiation of everyday life amid broader processes of social and economic transformation. A growing scholarship has debated the relationship between markets and capitalist modes of production in Africa. However, less attention has been paid to the changing moral dimensions of economic life within popular urban marketplaces. This article examines the moral economy of a central marketplace in Kampala, Uganda, through an analysis of a rare archive: the records of the market disciplinary committee. We show that market vendors have responded to the expansion of market economy in Kampala by invoking principles derived from the past, including the obligation to ‘feed’ others. Rather than an abstracted market economy, disputes in the market were interpreted in the context of an embedded market society in which value is placed on livelihood facilitation. These findings advance the burgeoning literature on capitalism in Africa by demonstrating the ways in which neoliberal norms and values are situated within a broader moral landscape that places limits on what can be exchanged with whom.","PeriodicalId":37966,"journal":{"name":"Critical African Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87865638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

An inherited animus to communal land: the mechanisms of coloniality in land reform agendas in Acholiland, Northern Uganda 对公共土地的继承敌意:乌干达北部阿奇利兰土地改革议程中的殖民机制

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1931383

J. Hopwood

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引用次数: 4

Colonial intent as treachery: a poetic response 作为背叛的殖民意图:诗意的回应

Critical African Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2021.1931384

Juliane Okot Bitek

引用次数: 2