Contested terrains and constructed categories
Subtitle: contemporary Africa in focus
By: edited by George Clement Bond and Nigel C. Gibson.
Contributors: Bond, George C.; Gibson, Nigel C.
Publisher: Westview
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
Subjects: Ethnology -- Africa; Human geography -- Africa; Geographical perception -- Africa; Cartography -- Africa; Knowledge, Sociology of; Africa -- Study and teaching; Africa -- Social conditions; Africa -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-457) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : African studies in contention / George Clement Bond and Nigel C. Gibson; title: Part 1. Challenging modes of thinking : making maps and mapping history. "So geographers in Africa maps with savage pictures fill their gaps" : representing Africa on maps / Mohamed Mbodj ; The challenges of writing African economic history / Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; title: pt. 2. Contested categories : economy, politics, and society. Structural adjustment / Sayre P. Schatz ; Poverty profile in Sub-Saharan Africa : the challenge of addressing an elusive problem / Oliver S. Saasa ; Civil society, pluralism, Goldilocks, and other fairy tales in Africa / Irving Leonard Markovitz ; Beyond the state and civil society : labor movements and economic adjustment in African transitions : South Africa and Nigeria compared / Franco Barchiesi ; Silencing power : mapping the social terrain in post-apartheid South Africa / Kate Crehan ; Negotiating identity in post-settlement South Africa : ethnicity, class, and race in a regional frame / Edward Ramsamy ; Negotiable property : making claims on land and history in Asante, 1896-1996 / Sara Berry; title: pt. 3. Violence of the word/violence against the body. Mapping Africa's presences : Merleau-Ponty, Mannoni, and the Malagasy masacre of 1947 in Frantz Fanon's Black skin white masks / Nigel C. Gibson ; Contesting terrains over a massacre : the case of Wiriyamu / Mustafah Dhada ; Negotiating postwar identies : child soldiers in Mozambique and Angola / Alcinda Honwana ; Sex and the politics of space in colonial Zimbabwe : the story of Chibheura (open your legs) exams / Lynette Jackson ; Girls, sex, and the dangers of urban schooling in coastal Madagascar / Lesley A. Sharp ; The moving frontier of AIDS in Uganda : contexts, texts, and concepts / George Clement Bond and Joan Vincent ; Contested claims and individual bodies / Meredeth Turshen.