Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Acronyms
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: African Studies in Contention
Part One Challenging Modes of Thinking: Making Maps and Mapping History
	1 “So Geographers in Africa Maps with Savage Pictures Fill Their Gaps”: Representing Africa on Maps
		History of Mapmaking
		Development of Scientific Cartography
		Cartography Becomes Geography
		Role of Maps in European Expansion
		Accuracy in Size Versus Accuracy in Distance
		Conclusion
	2 The Challenges of  Writing African Economic History
		Introduction
		Spatial and Temporal Scales
		Themes and Theories
		Comparisons and Connections
		Conclusion
Part Two Contested Categories: Economy, Politics, and Society
	3 Structural Adjustment
		The Failure of Structural Adjustment
		The Ideological Marketing Operation
		The Success of  World Bank Spin
		Conclusion: Developmental Activism
	4 Poverty Profile in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Challenge of Addressing an Elusive Problem
		Introduction
		Main Causes of Persisting Poverty
		Measuring Prevalence of Poverty
		Conclusion
	5 Civil Society, Pluralism, Goldilocks, and Other Fairy Tales in Africa
		Introduction
		Conflicting Conceptions of Civil Society
		Africa Growth and Opportunity Act
		International Banking, Capitalist Development, the Asian Crisis, and Africa
		The Construction of Civil Society in Senegal: A Case Study—The Senegalese-Mauritanian Conflict
		Pogroms, “Restructuration,” and Civil Society
		Conclusion: Cruel Democracy and Cruel Capitalism
	6 Beyond the State and Civil Society: Labor Movements and Economic Adjustment in African Transitions—South Africa and Nigeria Compared
		Neoliberal Adjustment as a Challenge for African Labor in Transition
		African Transitions and “Transition Studies”: Constraining the Space of Labor
		The Nigerian Labor Movement, Militarized Economic Adjustment, and the Uncertainties of Transition
		Labor in the South African Democratic Transition: The Challenge of Subordinate Incorporation
		Conclusion
	7 Silencing Power: Mapping the Social Terrain in Post-Apartheid South Africa
		Development as Discourse
		The Space of the NGO
		The Virtuous Community
		NGOs in South Africa: From Struggle to Development
		Working with the “Community”
		Community as Historical Precipitate and Community as Interest Group
		Conclusion
	8 Negotiating Identity in Post-Settlement South Africa: Ethnicity, Class, and Race in a Regional Frame
		Introduction
		Group Identity and the National Liberation Struggle in South Africa
		The Politics of Zulu Nationalism
		The National Question and the Indian Community
		Conclusion
	9 Negotiable Property: Making Claims on Land and History in Asante, 1896-1996
		Property as Exclusion
		Pushing on a String? Property Rights Reform and African Realities
		Negotiable Property in Asante
		Property as Participation?
		Beyond Familiar Fictions
Part Three Violence of the Word/Violence Against the Body
	10 Mapping Africa’s Presences: Merleau-Ponty, Mannoni, and the Malagasy Massacre of 1947 in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks
		Beyond Manicheanism: Merleau-Ponty and the Lived Experience of the Black
		The Triple Person: Merleau-Ponty's Intersubjectivity and Sartre's Manicheanism
		Outside the Psychoanalytic Office: Fanon and Mannoni
		1947:100,000 Massacred
		Mannoni's Dreams and Fanon's Reality
	11 Contesting Terrains Over a Massacre: The Case of Wiriyamu
		The Walls of Aching Silence
		Wiriyamu: Genesis
		Essentialism Defined
		Binaries, Values, and Attributions at Work
		The Grateful—and the Dead
	12 Negotiating Postwar Identities: Child Soldiers in Mozambique and Angola
		Introduction
		Child Soldiers: A Worldwide Phenomenon
		Child Soldiers in Post-Colonial Conflicts in Africa
		Notions and Discourses About Childhood
		Experiencing War and Violence
		“Being in the War”: Initiation to Violence and Terror
		The Quest for Reconciliation and Healing
		Conclusion
	13 Sex and the Politics of Space in Colonial Zimbabwe: The Story of Chibheura (Open Your Legs) Exams
		The Politics of Space
		The Politics of Sexuality
		The Politics of Memory
	14 Girls, Sex, and the Dangers of Urban Schooling in Coastal Madagascar
		Introduction
		Urban Danger and Scholastic Failure
		Girls in Town: An Independent Sister
		Worldly Diversions
		The Immorality of Play: Ny Soma
		SIDA and Sexual Danger
		Conclusion: Girls, Sex, and Urban Danger
	15 The Moving Frontier of AIDS in Uganda: Contexts, Texts, and Concepts
		Introduction
		The Moving Frontier: The Contextualization of a Pandemic
		AIDS: Civil War and Violence
		Cultural or Intellectual Maps
		The Uganda Districts Speak Out
		Conclusion
	16 Contested Claims and Individual Bodies
		Epidemic Disease
		Population Growth
		Endemic Wars
		Health and Political Violence
		Gendered Violence
Notes
References
Contributors
Index