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“david bosc”

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  • Youth and Popular Culture in Africa

    Media, Music, and Politics

    by Professor Godfrey Maringira, Simbarashe Gukurume, Connie Rapoo, Professor Adrienne Cohen, Kristi Heather Kenyon, Juliana Coughlin, David Bosc, Professor Adeline Masquelier, Nadine Dolby, Bamba Ndiaye, Dr David Kerr, Professor Ty-Juana Taylor, Ibrahim Bangura, James Yeku, Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, Austin Bryan, Professor Jendele Hungbo ...
    This edited collection focuses on the links between youth and African popular culture. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars explore popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. Essays cover a variety of cultural representations—visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual—created by African youth, mostly about their lives and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Mediated Society

    by John D. Jackson, Greg M. Nielsen, Yon Hsu ...
    Taking a sociological approach to the study of mass media, Mediated Society explores how the media affects individuals and society. Within this unique framework, the authors analyze media and mass communication as a social rather than as a technological construct while addressing issues such as democracy, citizenship, class, gender, and cultural diversity. Drawing attention to the way in which ... Read more

    $24.19 USD

  • Populocracy

    The Tyranny of Authenticity and the Rise of Populism

    by Prof. Catherine Fieschi ...
    Series series Comparative Political Economy
    Populism has become a significant feature of mature democracies in the twenty-first century and the rise of populist parties is proving a powerful and disruptive force. Catherine Fieschi offers a comparative analysis of the rise of populist parties in France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK in the context of major digital and political transformations. Populism is effective, Fieschi shows, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture

    Edited by Grace A Musila ...
    This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Political Protest in Contemporary Africa

    by Lisa Mueller ...
    From spray-painted slogans in Senegal to student uprisings in South Africa, twenty-first century Africa has seen an explosion of protests and social movements. But why? Protests flourish amidst an emerging middle class whose members desire political influence and possess the money, education, and political autonomy to effectively launch movements for democratic renewal. In contrast with pro ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Hip Hop Africa

    New African Music in a Globalizing World

    by Rainer Polak, Jesse Weaver Shipley, Lee Watkins, Patricia Tang, Daniel B. Reed, John Fenn, Stephanie Shonekan, Jean Ngoya Kidula, Alex Perullo, John Collins, Jochen Seebode ...
    Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Africa

    The Politics of Suffering and Smiling

    by Patrick Chabal ...
    Series series World Political Theories
    The question usually asked about Africa is: 'why is it going wrong?' Is the continent still suffering from the ravages of colonialism? Or is it the victim of postcolonial economic exploitation, poor governance and lack of aid? Whatever the answer, increasingly the result is poverty and violence.In Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling Patrick Chabal approaches this question differently by ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Invisible Users

    Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana

    by Jenna Burrell ...
    Series series Acting with Technology
    An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.The urban youth frequenting the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana, who are decidedly not members of their country's elite, use the Internet largely as a way to orchestrate encounters across distance and amass foreign ties—activities once limited to the wealthy, university ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • State of Rebellion

    Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

    by Louisa Lombard ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins.In this first comprehensive account of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far – ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Spaces of Aid

    How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

    by Lisa Smirl ...
    Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Necessary Noise

    Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo

    by Chérie Rivers Ndaliko ...
    Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state, the Congolese have turned increasingly to art-making to express their experience to external eyes. Author Chérie Rivers Ndaliko argues that ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Sociocultural Studies in Education

    Critical Thinking for Democracy

    by Richard A Quantz ...
    Sociocultural Studies in Education: Critical Thinking for Democracy fills a void in the education of educators and citizens in a democracy. It explores some of the fundamentals around which disagreements in education arise. It presents a process with which those new to these debates can understand often confusing and entwined sets of facts and logics. This book leads the reader through some ... Read more

    $70.99 USD