Description
Book Synopsis Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection develops a stronger grasp of the specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same time, while focusing on case studies from the African continent, the work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, adding to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.
Trade Review “Regimes of Responsibility contributes to a growing number of histories in anthropology, political science, religious studies, economics, and history. This volume is unique in that it spans sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on neoliberal periodization and the way its effects are understood by local communities, with ‘responsibility’ as its discursive frame.” • African Studies Review
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Introduction: Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts
Benjamin Rubbers and Alessandro Jedlowski
Chapter 1. Historical Regimes of Responsibility in ‘The Politics of the Belly’
Jean-François Bayart
Chapter 2. The Use(fulness) of Discourses of 'Responsibility' on the DRC's ‘Sovereign Frontier’
Stylianos Moshonas
Chapter 3. High Officials’ Responsibility and State Accountability in the Age of Neoliberal Discharge: Views from Mozambique
Rozenn Nakanabo Diallo
Chapter 4. Reproduction, Responsibility and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire
Armando Cutolo and Giulia Almagioni
Chapter 5. Human Care or Human Capital: Corporate Responsibility and HIV Management at South Africa’s Mines
Dinah Rajak
Chapter 6. For What Are Persons With Disabilities Responsible? The Study of Public, Social and Family Responsibilities in the Context of Locomotor Disability (Cape Flats, South Africa)
Marie Schnitzler
Chapter 7. Diverting Makila Mabe: Understanding Responsibility in Kinshasa’s Pentecostal Worlds
Katrien Pype
Chapter 8. The (Ir)Responsible Witch: Ambiguities among the Maka of Southeast Cameroon
Peter Geschiere
Chapter 9. The ‘Return of Culture’: Spiritual Threats, Asylum Policies and the Responsibility of Anthropological Knowledge
Roberto Beneduce
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