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The 2023 Cashless Election in Nigeria: The Politics of Withdrawing Money 2023年尼日利亚无现金选举：提款政治

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad019

Laurent Fourchard, Azeez Kayode Sikiru

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National Identities in Global Health: Kenya’s Vaccine Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic 全球卫生中的国家认同：新冠肺炎大流行期间肯尼亚的疫苗外交

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-06-28 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad015

John Harrington, D. Ngira

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Book Review 书评

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad018

Sibanengi Ncube

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Book Review 书评

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad017

J. Lar

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Book Review 书评

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad016

A. Sharra

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Demanding recognition: a new Framework for the Study of Political Clientelism 要求承认:政治庇护主义研究的新框架

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-05-17 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad014

Kathleen Klaus, Jeffrey W. Paller, Martha Wilfahrt

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Book Review 书评

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad004

Marianne S. Ulriksen

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Book Review 书评

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad007

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

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Religious leaders as agents of LGBTIQ inclusion in East Africa 宗教领袖是东非LGBTIQ融合的推动者

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad012

Adriaan van Klinken, Barbara Bompani, Damaris Parsitau

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Book Review 书评

IF 2.8 1区社会学

African Affairs Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adad008

R. Aidoo

{"title":"Book Review","authors":"R. Aidoo","doi":"10.1093/afraf/adad008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adad008","url":null,"abstract":"With ten essays and an editorial introduction, Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture, edited by Melvin G. Hill, offers an array of insightful perspectives on the intersections of science, technology, and Black subjectivity, particularly in works of African American literature and culture. Focused on American histories and experiences of race, these essays present compelling frameworks for examining Black identity and being in an effort to transcend and enhance the human—understood as “transhumanism”—through medical, algorithmic, digital, and other technologies. The collection’s focus on transhumanismmeans that the essays also touch on the debates surrounding posthumanism and Afrofuturism. Several essays focus on the problems and possibilities that arise from miscegenation and reproduction, which the authors argue can be read as transhumanist technologies for modifying the human. In the case of the British colonies in the Caribbean, Md. Monirul Islam (Chapter One) shows how racial mixing was proposed as a new method of colonial subject formation and control, the thinking being that “miscegens” would embody both European intellect and African strength to improve production in the plantations. Miscegenation would also hinder any slave rebellions organized on the basis of skin color. In an instance of undermining the biological fixtures of race, Melvin G. Hill (Chapter Five) presents George S. Schuyler’s Black NoMore (1931[reprint Dover 2011]) as an Afro-transhumanist novel in which its protagonist, Max Disher, who is Black, undergoes genetic transformation to become white. This subsequently upends the racial and racist binaries that define the United States, which later culminates in white nativist riots. These essays contend that the Black self, formed through histories of slavery and racism, is already a site for transhuman endeavors, imagination, and disruption.","PeriodicalId":7508,"journal":{"name":"African Affairs","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43128665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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