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  • You’re Not a Country, Africa

    by Pius Adesanmi ...
    In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Pius Adesanmi explores what Africa means to him as an African and as a citizen of the world. Examining the personal and the political, tradition and modernity, custom and culture, Adesanmi grapples with the complexity and contradictions of this vast continent, zooming in most closely on Nigeria, the country of his birth. The inspiration for the title of ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • Who Owns the Problem?

    Africa and the Struggle for Agency

    by Pius Adesanmi ...
    Series series African Humanities and the Arts
    How may we conceptualize Africa in the driver’s seat of her own destiny in the twenty-first century? How practically may her cultures become the foundation and driving force of her innovation, development, and growth in the age of the global knowledge economy? How may the Africanist disciplines in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences be revamped to rise up to these ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Africa Matters

    Cultural politics, political economies, & grammars of protest

    by Pius Adebola Adesanmi, Allan Rutherford Blair ...
    Africa Matters: Cultural politics, political economies, & grammars of protest provides a sampling of some of these insightful articles from the first five issues of Nokoko, bringing together some of the pieces that for the editorial board of the journal are particularly perspicacious in their analysis and resonant in their crafting. Like expressions associated with the Ga word, Nokoko has brought ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Africa Matters

    Cultural Politics, Political Economies, and Grammars of Protest

    Edited by Pius Adebola Adesanmi, Blair Rutherford ...
    Africa Matters: Cultural politics, political economies, & grammars of protest provides a sampling of insightful articles from the first five issues of Nokoko, journal of the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. It brings together pieces that the journal's editorial board felt were particularly perspicacious in their analysis and resonant in their crafting. Uniting ... Read more

    $6.69 CAD

  • Contemporary Management Approaches to the Global Hospitality and Tourism Industry

    Edited by Abraham Pius, Husam H. Alharahsheh, Adenike A. Adesanmi ...
    The hospitality, travel, and tourism industries play a major role in citizen wellbeing, socio-cultural integration, and the economic advancement of a nation. The industries are increasingly complex in operation, demanding excellence across a far-reaching and diverse set of capabilities and changes in management practices across the board. With growing expectations for a better service quality from ... Read more

    $267.19 CAD

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  • Sociology of Globalization

    Cultures, Economies, and Politics

    Edited by Keri E. Iyall Smith ...
    A rich collection of diverse voices, Sociology of Globalization examines the processes of globalization as well as its impact on people around the world. It looks beyond the headlines, stereotypes, and hype and features a balanced selection of classic scholarship and theory, cutting-edge research, and engaging journalism. Key pieces from prominent scholars, journalists, and theorists will resonate ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • They Eat Our Sweat

    Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria

    by Daniel E. Agbiboa ...
    Series series Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
    Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to this tendency, They Eat Our Sweat offers a fresh and engaging look at the corruption complex in Africa through a micro analysis of its informal transport sector, where collusion between state ... Read more

    $104.19 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Read more

    $349.59 CAD

  • Citizenship, identity and belonging in Kenya

    University of Nairobi & SAMOSA-Festival Colloquium

    Edited by Zarina Patel, Zahid Rajan ...
    Every couple of years, an inspired group of people, led by the editors of AwaaZ Magazine (www.awazmagazine.com), organise a festival in Nairobi, Kenya, that goes by the name ‘SAMOSA’—South Asian Mosaic of Society and the Arts— bringing together different communities through art, music, dance, film and discussions. In 2016, during the 7th biennial event, included was a colloquium organised in ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Rent

    by Joe Collins ...
    Series series What is Political Economy?
    The problem of rent is at the root of vital social concerns in the twenty-first century, ranging from the climate emergency and spiralling economic inequality to the repercussions of global economic crises. But while many of us may be familiar with rent (especially paying it), how should we really understand it?Examining both concrete contexts and complex concepts, in this book Joe Collins ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Afropolitan Projects

    Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra

    by Anima Adjepong ...
    Beyond simplistic binaries of “the dark continent” or “Africa Rising,” Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these articulations can be characterized as Afropolitan projects — cultural, political, and aesthetic expressions of global belonging rooted in African ideals. This ethnographic study ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Democracy's Infrastructure

    Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid

    by Antina von Schnitzler ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    In the past decade, South Africa's "miracle transition" has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity. Less visibly, the post-apartheid period has witnessed widespread illicit acts involving infrastructure, including the nonpayment of service charges, the bypassing of metering devices, and illegal connections to services. Democracy’s ... Read more

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