{"product_id":"anxiety-in-and-about-africa-9780821424360","title":"Anxiety in and about Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis addition to the Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series presents multidisciplinary essays that demonstrate how individual and collective anxieties can unsettle dominant historical narratives, shape contemporary discourse, and appear across material culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Using ‘anxiety’ as the organizing rubric, this collective examination of affect, emotion, and concern across Africa, geographically and temporally, delves into fascinating disciplinary endeavors and disparate approaches. Although ‘anxiety’ is deliberately not defined strictly by the editors, and the contributors employ their own, different takes on what is anxiety inducing (and what is inferred by being anxiety provoking), this volume contains valuable essays about historical periods or behavioral thresholds that may be labeled as sources of anxiety…. Recommended.” * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e vii\u003cbr\u003e I n t roduct ion\u003cbr\u003e States of Anxiety in Africa\u003cbr\u003e Perspectives, Approaches, and Potential\u003cbr\u003e Yola na Pringle and Andrea Mariko Grant\u003cbr\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003e PART I: Anxious Spaces\u003cbr\u003e One: Misapprehensions. Outlaws and Anxiety in Southern Africa’s Archaeological Past (Rach el King)\u003cbr\u003e Two: Between the Anxiogenic and the Soothing. Settlers’ Engagements with Africans in Dance in Colonial Africa, 1920s–30s (Cécile Feza Bushidi)\u003cbr\u003e Three: Epidemics and Anxiety in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (Kalala Ngala mulume)\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Unsettling Na rratives\u003cbr\u003e Four: Anxiety over Masculinity. Gendered and Sexual Struggles in Mwanga II’s Buganda, 1884–97 (Naka nyike B. Musisi)\u003cbr\u003e Five: No End to the Trouble. Decolonization Anxieties and the Evacuation of White Settlers from Kenya, 1963–64 (Will Jacks on and Harry Firth-Jones)\u003cbr\u003e Six: Competing Development “Visions”? State Anxieties and Church Closures in Rwanda (Andrea Mariko Grant)\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Alternative Temporalities\u003cbr\u003e Seven: “Right Now, I Don’t Know What the Future Might Bring”. Hope, Anxiety, and Despair in the Burundian Crisis (Simon Turner)\u003cbr\u003e Eight: “Obuganda Buladde\". Power, Anxiety, and Calm in Postcolonial Buganda (Jonathon L. Earle)\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406006493527,"sku":"9780821424360","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780821424360.jpg?v=1730494218","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anxiety-in-and-about-africa-9780821424360","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}