African futures : essays on crisis, emergence, and possibility /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Goldstone, Brian (Editor), Obarrio, Juan (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Subjects:	Africa > Social conditions > 21st century > Congresses. Africa > Forecasting > Congresses. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: untimely Africa? / Brian Goldstone and Juan Obarrio
Rethinking crisis. Africa otherwise / Janet Roitman
The form of crisis and the affect of modernization / Brian Larkin
The productivity of crisis: aid, time, and medicine in Mozambique / Ramah McKay
Emergent economies. Money in the future of Africans / Jane I. Guyer
Forensics of capital / Michael Ralph
Brokering revolution: imagining future war on the West African borderlands / Danny Hoffman
Hedging the future / Charles Piot
Entangled postcolonial futures: Malagasy marriage migrants and provincial Frenchmen / Jennifer Cole
Urban spaces and local futures. Rough towns: mobilizing uncertainty in Kinshasa / AbdouMaliq Simone
Local futures, the future of the local: urban living in a Central African metropolis / Filip De Boeck
Changing mobilities, shifting futures / Peter Geschiere and Antoine Socpa
Time and again: locality as future anterior in Mozambique / Juan Obarrio
Possibilities. Getting ahead when we're behind: time, potential, and value in urban Tanzania / Brad Weiss
Africa in theory / Achille Mbembe.