African futures / edited by Clemens Greiner, Steven van Wolputte, and Michael Bollig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greiner, Clemens, editor.

Wolputte, Steven van, editor.

Bollig, Michael, editor.

Series:

African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 27.

African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1574-6925 ; volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Social conditions--21st century.

Africa.

Africa--Economic conditions--1960-.

Africa--Civilization--21st century.

Africa--Forecasting.

Civilization.

Economic history.

Forecasting.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 387 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers - all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Futuring Africa : an introduction / Steven Van Wolputte, Clemens Greiner, Michael Bollig

African futures : polymorphous, polycentric, heterogenous, unpredictable (as everywhere and always) / Hana Horakova

COVID-19, disrupted futures, and challenges for African studies / Steven Van Wolputte, Clemens Greiner, Michael Bollig

African pastoralism : plus ça change? From constant herders to social differentiation / Clemens Greiner

Religious practices and/as future making in Africa : some cautionary remarks / Dorothea Schulz

Rethinking the ethnographic museum / Ciraj Rassool

The future of helath in sub-Saharan Africa : is there a path to longer and healtheir lives for all? / Richard G. Wamai and Hugh C. Shirley

A new politics of uncertainty : towards convivial development in Africa / Ian Scoones

Twenty-first century conservation in Africa : contemporary dilemmas, future challenges / Michael Bollig

Forest crime in Africa : actors, moarkets and complexities / Eric M. Kioko

Framing the future of national parks / Thomas Widlok and Ndapewa Fenny Nakanyete

The future of communal lands in Africa : experiences from Namibia / Romi Vonki Nghitevelekwa

Connected Sahel-Sahara in turmoil : the past in the future / Mirjam de Bruijn

Black swan, grey swan? Pandemic scenarios and African peace and security futures / Ulf Engel

The youth and land access challenges : critical reflections from post-fast track land reform Zimbabwe / Clement Chipenda and Tom Tom

"We will not watch like monkeys" : development visions and conflict potentials in Northern Kenya / Kennedy Mkutu Agade

Spells of moral panic and flashes of pride : Digital Kinois' engagements with the search for a COVID-19 cure / Katrien Pype

Beyond the dead end : Gikuyus and Englishes in colonial and postcolonial debates on language and decolonizing (Kenya) / Inge Brinkman

Animating the future : storytelling and super heroes in Africa / Ute Fendler

Conceptual design and fashion's futures in the Afropolis

Future tense / Anne Storch

CityLabs : making cities, making futures / Steven van Wolputte, Ann Cassiman, and Filip de Boeck

Innovation, music and future making by young Africans in a challenging environment : examples from Cameroon and Nigeria / Jonathan Ngeh and Michaela Pelican

A future of hope : artists in a context of insecurity / Ludovic Ouhonyioué Kibora

'Girling' the future and 'futuring' girls in Niger / Adeline Masquelier

Queer futures, national utopias : notes on objects, intimacy, time, and the state / George Paul Meiu

Futuring together : inside and outside of marriage on Namibia / Julia Pauli

The future of female genital cutting : an evolution of its medicalization / Tammary Esho

Imagination of the past and memory for the future : re-establishment of the Lifeworld through rituals among the Glua/Gllana / Akira Takada and Yuriko Sugiyama

Visitations / Martha Ndakalako

Academic cooperation in the humanities and social sciences : a post-COVID future / Andreas Mehaler and Francis B. Nyamnjoh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: African futures

ISBN:

9789004470811

9004470816

OCLC:

1276847924