Middle Classes in Africa Changing Lives and Conceptual Challenges /

This volume challenges the concept of the 'new African middle class' with new theoretical and empirical insights into the changing lives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diverse middle classes are on the rise, but models of class based on experiences from other regions of the world cannot be easily...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kroeker, Lena (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), O'Kane, David (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Scharrer, Tabea (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2018.
Σειρά:Frontiers of Globalization
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 1. Introduction: Africa's Middle Classes in Critical Perspective; Tabea Scharrer, David O'Kane and Lena Kroeker
  • Section 1: Rethinking Concepts of Middle Classes in Africa
  • 2. Turning the Poor into Something More Inspiring: The Creation of the African Middle Class Controversy; Dominique Darbon
  • 3. The Narrative of 'the African Middle Class' and its Conceptual Limitations; Dieter Neubert and Florian Stoll
  • 4. Anthropology and Class in Africa: Challenges of the Past and Present
  • Section 2: The Recurring Rise and Return of Middle Classes in Africa; David O'Kane and Tabea Scharrer
  • 5. The Ghanaian Middle Class, Social Stratification, and Long-Term Dynamics of Upward and Downward Mobility of Lawyers and Teachers; Jan Budniok and Andrea Noll
  • 6. The Nubians of Kibera 'Revisited': Detribalized Natives, Slum Dwellers, Middle class?; Johanna Sarre
  • 7. Saving and Serving the Nation: HIV Politics and the Emergence of New Professional Classes in Botswana; Astrid Bochow
  • Section 3: The Political Consequences of the Middle Classes.-8. Propertied Citizenship in a Township and Suburb in Johannesburg; Barbara Heer
  • 9. Thinking Sierra Leone and Building a New Middle Class: Political Expression and Political Values at the University of Makeni; David O'Kane
  • 10. African Middle Classes: Formation and Destabilizing Effects
  • Section 4: Formation of Social Interconnections and Interdependencies; Jason Musyoka
  • 11. Pathways into the Middle: Rites of Passage and Emerging Middle Classes in Namibia; Julia Pauli
  • 12. Middle Class Approaches to Social Security in Kenya; Lena Kroeker
  • 13. Middle Classes and 'Moderate Prosperity' in Rural Madagascar; Tsiry Andrianampiarivo
  • 14. Afterword. The (Idea of) African Middle Classes: Theorizing from Africa; Rachel Spronk.