Anxiety in and about Africa : multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches / edited by Andrea Mariko Grant and Yolana Pringle.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Grant, Andrea Mariko, editor.

Pringle, Yolana, editor.

Conference Name:

Anxiety in and about Africa (Conference) (2016 : Cambridge, England), author.

Series:

Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.

Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anxiety--Africa--Congresses.

Anxiety.

Africa--Social conditions--1960---Congresses.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2021].

Summary:

"This volume demonstrates the richness of anxiety as an analytical lens within African studies. Contributors call attention to ways of thinking about African spaces-physical, visceral, somatic, and imagined-as well as time and temporality. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the volume also brings histories of anxiety in colonial settings into conversation with work on the so-called negative emotions in disciplines beyond history. While anxiety has long been acknowledged as able to unsettle colonial narratives, to reveal the vulnerability of the colonial enterprise, this volume shows it can equally unsettle related narratives in the contemporary moment, such as those of sustainable development, migration, sexuality, and democracy. These essays therefore highlight the need to take emotions seriously as contemporary realities with particular histories that must be carefully mapped out"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction. States of Anxiety in Africa: Perspectives, Approaches, and Potential / Yola na Pringle and Andrea Mariko Grant

Misapprehensions

Outlaws and Anxiety in Southern Africa's Archaeological Past / Rachel King

Between the Anxiogenic and the Soothing: Settlers' Engagements with Africans in Dance in Colonial Africa, 1920s-30s / Cecile Feza Bushidi

Epidemics and Anxiety in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century / Kalala Ngalamulume

Anxiety over Masculinity: Gendered and Sexual Struggles in Mwanga II's Buganda, 1884-97 / Naka nyike B. Musisi

No End to the Trouble / Decolonization Anxieties and the Evacuation of White Settlers from Kenya, 1963-64 / Will Jackson and Harry Firth-Jones

Competing Development "Visions"? State Anxieties and Church Closures in Rwanda / Andrea Mariko Grant

"Right Now, I Don't Know What the Future Might Bring:" Hope, Anxiety, and Despair in the Burundian Crisis / Simon Turner

"Obuganda Buladde": Power, Anxiety, and Calm in Postcolonial Buganda /

Jonathon L. Earle.

Notes:

"This edited volume stems from a two-day interdisciplinary conference, "Anxiety in and about Africa," held at the University of Cambridge in June 2016"--Page vii

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821447284

0821447289

OCLC:

1192305453