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Anthropology

Africa

Matatu A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi

Mutongi Kenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226471396, ISBN: HB: 9780226130866, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus – colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed o...

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Political Science

Africa

Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226453606, ISBN: HB: 9780226453576, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country ap...

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Middle East

Africa

Neoliberal Apartheid Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994

Clarno Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780226430096, ISBN: HB: 9780226429922, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

In recent years, as peace between Israelis and Palestinians has remained cruelly elusive, scholars and activists have increasingly turned to South African history and politics to make sense of the situation. In the early 1990s, both South Africa and...

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Anthropology

General

African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

Goldstone Brian, Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...

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Law

Anthropology

Competing Norms State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa

Diawara Mamadou, Roschenthaler Ute

ISBN: PB: 9783593506531, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
271 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 maps

States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on th...

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General

Africa

Best Laid Plans Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns

McDonnell Terence E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226382159, ISBN: HB: 9780226382012, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 line drawing

We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft clear, resonant, and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate peopl...

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Africa

Unpopular Sovereignty Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization

White Luise

ISBN: PB: 9780226235196, ISBN: HB: 9780226235059, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to...

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Africa

Having People, Having Heart Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda

Scherz China

ISBN: PB: 9780226119670, ISBN: HB: 9780226119533, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But i...

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Cartography

Africa

Mastering the Niger James MacQueen's African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery

Lambert David

ISBN: HB: 9780226078069, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

In "Mastering the Niger", David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of "A New Map of Africa" in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery – as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political strugg...

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Africa

General

Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality

Coe Cati

ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables

Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...

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