Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture

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Author:

Binsbergen, Wim M. J. van.

ISBN:

9789004131330

Publication Information:

Boston : Brill, 2004.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Series:

African dynamics, 3

Series Title:

African dynamics, 1568-1777 ; 3

Contents:

1. Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture / Wim van Binsbergen, Rijk van Dijk and Jan-Bart Gewald -- 2. Global and local trends in media ownership and control: Implications for cultural creativity in Africa / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- 3. Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia / Jan-Bart Gewald -- 4. Can ICT belong in Africa, or is ICT owned by the North Atlantic region? / Wim van Binsbergen -- 5. 'Man will live well': On the poetics of corruption in a global age / Sanya Osha -- 6. 'Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia': Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain / Rijk van Dijk -- 7. Global connections, local ruptures: The case of Islam in Senegal / Roy Dilley -- 8. How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth and women's value in an Islamic town of Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- 9. The social life of secrets / Ferdinand de Jong.

10. The persistence of female initiation rites: Reflexivity and resilience of women in Zambia / Thera Rasing.

Subject Term:

Africa -- Civilization -- Congresses.

Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960- -- Congresses.

Globalization -- Social aspects -- Africa -- Congresses.

Group identity -- Africa -- Congresses.

Mass media -- Social aspects -- Africa -- Congresses.

Africa -- Religion -- Congresses.

Religion and sociology -- Africa -- Congresses.

Added Author:

Binsbergen, Wim M. J. van.

Dijk, Rijk van, 1959-

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Situating Globality challenges the dominant view that globalization is a primary threat to African societies and economies. It explores how these societies are appropriating elements of the emerging global culture, arguing the significance of this appropriation in local struggles, the expression of critical thinking, ideologies and ritual styles of behaviour. Combining an interest for micro-level processes of situating the multifaceted process of globality with the exploration of reflexivity, creativity and the production of knowledge, Situating Globality straddles the divide between anthropological and philosophical representations of Africa in the new world order. The first section examines philosophical issues relating to the production of knowledge in and about Africa from a globalizing perspective, while the other sections include case studies showing how these processes are accommodated in everyday life.