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Strength Beyond Structure: Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa

Strength Beyond Structure: Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa

de Bruijn, Mirjam
Gewald, Jan-Bart
Van Dijk, Rijk

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9004156968
ISBN13: 9789004156968
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 10 2007
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.58 Depth: 9.42
Language: English
This book explores the notion of agency in a range of empirical situations in Africa. Agency directs our quest for an understanding of the dynamics and social transformations of African situations to the domains of creativity, inventiveness and reflexivity. It emphasizes the possibilities individuals and social groups perceive when faced with the constraints that tend to mark African social life. The case studies provide an alternative view of people and society in Africa by looking at the ways social strength is created in the hope of overcoming many of the structural limitations encountered in daily life. 'Strength beyond Structure' challenges the optimism that is engrained in the development rhetoric about Africa by making agency the subject of empirical scrutiny.

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