Conspicuous consumption in Africa / edited by Deborah Posel, Ilana van Wyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Posel, Deborah, editor.

Wyk, Ilana van, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Africa.

Consumption (Economics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2019]

Summary:

This volume grapples with contemporary conspicuous consumption in Africa, its history and how it relates to the project of African modernity. The essays delve into the pleasures, stresses and challenges of consuming in its religious, gendered and racialised aspects, revealing conspicuous consumption as a layered set of practices and relations.

Contents:

Intro

TITLE

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1 THINKING WITH VEBLEN: CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICA'S PAST AND PRESENT

2 CHANGES IN THE ORDER OF THINGS: DEPARTMENT STORES AND THE MAKING OF MODERN CAPE TOWN

3 CONSPICUOUSLY PUBLIC: GENDERED HISTORIES OF SARTORIAL AND SOCIAL SUCCESS IN URBAN TOGO

4 ETIENNE ROUSSEAU, BROEDERTWIS AND THE POLITICS OF CONSUMPTION WITHIN AFRIKANERDOM

5 RECYCLING CONSUMPTION: POLITICAL POWER AND ELITE WEALTH IN ANGOLA

6 CHILUBA'S TRUNKS: CONSUMPTION, EXCESS AND THE BODY POLITIC IN ZAMBIA

7 JACOB ZUMA'S SHAMELESSNESS: CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION, POLITICS AND RELIGION

8 PRECARIOUS 'BIGNESS': A 'BIG MAN', HIS WOMEN AND HIS FUNERAL IN CAMEROON

9 YOUNG MEN OF LEISURE? YOUTH, CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION AND THE PERFORMATIVITY OF DRESS IN NIGER

10 BOOTY ON FIRE: LOOKING AT IZIKHOTHANE WITH THORSTEIN VEBLEN

11 CONSPICUOUS QUEER CONSUMPTION: EMULATION AND HONOUR IN THE PINK MAP

12 THE POLITICS AND MORAL ECONOMY OF MIDDLE-CLASS CONSUMPTION IN SOUTH AFRICA

13 MARIGOLD BEADS: WHO NEEDS DIAMONDS?!

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781776143665

1776143663