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African futures :

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African futures :

[Book]

essays on crisis, emergence, and possibility /

edited by Brian Goldstone and Juan Obarrio.

London :

The University of Chicago Press,

[2016]

©2016

1 online resource

Most contributions derive from an invited session on "African Futures in Crisis", held at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed? The experts in this book address Africa's future as it is embedded within various social and cultural forms emerging on the continent today: the reconfiguration of the urban, the efflorescence of signs and wonders and gospels of prosperity, the assorted techniques of legality and illegality, lotteries and Ponzi schemes, apocalyptic visions, a yearning for exile, and many other phenomena. Bringing together social, political, religious, and economic viewpoints, the book reveals not one but multiple prospects for the future of Africa. In doing so, it offers a pathbreaking model of pluralistic and open-ended thinking and a powerful tool for addressing the vexing uncertainties that underlie so many futures around the world.

African futures.

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Forecasting.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.

Prognose

Social conditions.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.

Soziale Situation

Africa, Forecasting, Congresses.

Africa, Social conditions, 21st century, Congresses.

Africa.

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Obarrio, Juan

American Anthropological Association., Annual Meeting(109th :2010 :, New Orleans, La.)

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