Contested Terrains And Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa In Focus [Hardback]

Illustrations		xiii
Acronyms		xiv
Preface		xv
Introduction: African Studies in Contention		1	(36)
George Clement Bond
Nigel C. Gibson
Part One Challenging Modes of Thinking: Making Maps and Mapping History
``So Geographers in Africa Maps with Savage Pictures Fill Their Gaps'': Representing Africa on Maps		37	(22)
Mohamed Mbodj
History of Mapmaking		38	(5)
Development of Scientific Cartography		43	(3)
Cartography Becomes Geography		46	(1)
Role of Maps in European Expansion		47	(5)
Accuracy in Size Versus Accuracy in Distance		52	(5)
Conclusion		57	(2)
The Challenges of Writing African Economic History		59	(28)
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Introduction		59	(1)
Spatial and Temporal Scales		60	(5)
Themes and Theories		65	(7)
Comparisons and Connections		72	(11)
Conclusion		83	(4)
Part Two Contested Categories: Economy, Politics, and Society
Structural Adjustment		87	(18)
Sayre P. Schatz
The Failure of Structural Adjustment		87	(8)
The Ideological Marketing Operation		95	(4)
The Success of World Bank Spin		99	(1)
Conclusion: Developmental Activism		100	(5)
Poverty Profile in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Challenge of Addressing an Elusive Problem		105	(12)
Oliver S. Saasa
Introduction		105	(4)
Main Causes of Persisting Poverty		109	(3)
Measuring Prevalence of Poverty		112	(3)
Conclusion		115	(2)
Civil Society, Pluralism, Goldilocks, and Other Fairy Tales in Africa		117	(28)
Irving Leonard Markovitz
Introduction		117	(4)
Conflicting Conceptions of Civil Society		121	(9)
Africa Growth and Opportunity Act		130	(2)
International Banking, Capitalist Development, the Asian Crisis, and Africa		132	(2)
The Construction of Civil Society in Senegal: A Case Study-The Senegalese-Mauritanian Conflict		134	(2)
Pogroms, ``Restructuration,'' and Civil Society		136	(6)
Conclusion: Cruel Democracy and Cruel Capitalism		142	(3)
Beyond the State and Civil Society: Labor Movements and Economic Adjustment in African Transitions-South Africa and Nigeria Compared		145	(28)
Franco Barchiesi
Neoliberal Adjustment as a Challenge for African Labor in Transition		145	(2)
African Transitions and ``Transition Studies'': Constraining the Space of Labor		147	(4)
The Nigerian Labor Movement, Militarized Economic Adjustment, and the Uncertainties of Transition		151	(9)
Labor in the South African Democratic Transition: The Challenge of Subordinate Incorporation		160	(10)
Conclusion		170	(3)
Silencing Power: Mapping the Social Terrain in Post-Apartheid South Africa		173	(22)
Kate Crehan
Development as Discourse		174	(1)
The Space of the NGO		175	(2)
The Virtuous Community		177	(4)
NGOs in South Africa: From Struggle to Development		181	(1)
Working with the ``Community,''		182	(7)
Community as Historical Precipitate and Community as Interest Group		189	(3)
Conclusion		192	(3)
Negotiating Identity in Post-Settlement South Africa: Ethnicity, Class, and Race in a Regional Frame		195	(18)
Edward Ramsamy
Introduction		195	(2)
Group Identity and the National Liberation Struggle in South Africa		197	(3)
The Politics of Zulu Nationalism		200	(4)
The National Question and the Indian Community		204	(5)
Conclusion		209	(4)
Negotiable Property: Making Claims on Land and History in Asante, 1896-1996		213	(22)
Sara Berry
Property as Exclusion		215	(2)
Pushing on a String? Property Rights Reform and African Realities		217	(3)
Negotiable Property in Asante		220	(6)
Property as Participation?		226	(4)
Beyond Familiar Fictions		230	(5)
Part Three Violence of the Word/Violence Against the Body
Mapping Africa's Presences: Merleau-Ponty, Mannoni, and the Malagasy Massacre of 1947 in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks		235	(24)
Nigel C. Gibson
Beyond Manicheanism: Merleau-Ponty and the Lived Experience of the Black		236	(2)
The Triple Person: Merleau-Ponty's Intersubjectivity and Sartre's Manicheanism		238	(5)
Outside the Psychoanalytic Office: Fanon and Mannoni		243	(6)
1947: 100,000 Massacred		249	(5)
Mannoni's Dreams and Fanon's Reality		254	(5)
Contesting Terrains Over a Massacre: The Case of Wiriyamu		259	(18)
Mustafah Dhada
The Walls of Aching Silence		259	(6)
Wiriyamu: Genesis		265	(2)
Essentialism Defined		267	(2)
Binaries, Values, and Attributions at Work		269	(5)
The Grateful-and the Dead		274	(3)
Negotiating Postwar Identities: Child Soldiers in Mozambique and Angola		277	(22)
Alcinda Honwana
Introduction		277	(3)
Child Soldiers: A Worldwide Phenomenon		280	(1)
Child Soldiers in Post-Colonial Conflicts in Africa		280	(1)
Notions and Discourses About Childhood		281	(2)
Experiencing War and Violence		283	(4)
``Being in the War'': Initiation to Violence and Terror		287	(5)
The Quest for Reconciliation and Healing		292	(6)
Conclusion		298	(1)
Sex and the Politics of Space in Colonial Zimbabwe: The Story of Chibheura (Open Your Legs) Exams		299	(22)
Lynette Jackson
The Politics of Space		300	(10)
The Politics of Sexuality		310	(2)
The Politics of Memory		312	(9)
Girls, Sex, and the Dangers of Urban Schooling in Coastal Madagascar		321	(24)
Lesley A. Sharp
Introduction		321	(2)
Urban Danger and Scholastic Failure		323	(4)
Girls in Town: An Independent Sister		327	(1)
Worldly Diversions		328	(9)
The Immorality of Play: Ny Soma		337	(2)
SIDA and Sexual Danger		339	(5)
Conclusion: Girls, Sex, and Urban Danger		344	(1)
The Moving Frontier of AIDS in Uganda: Contexts, Texts, and Concepts		345	(20)
George Clement Bond
Joan Vincent
Introduction		345	(3)
The Moving Frontier: The Contextualization of a Pandemic		348	(4)
AIDS: Civil War and Violence		352	(3)
Cultural or Intellectual Maps		355	(5)
The Uganda Districts Speak Out		360	(2)
Conclusion		362	(3)
Contested Claims and Individual Bodies		365	(14)
Meredeth Turshen
Epidemic Disease		367	(1)
Population Growth		368	(3)
Endemic Wars		371	(2)
Health and Political Violence		373	(2)
Gendered Violence		375	(4)
Notes		379	(28)
References		407	(52)
Contributors		459	(4)
Index		463

George Clement Bond, former Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University and a member of the Council of the International African Institute (London), is a Professor of Anthropology and Education at Teachers College Columbia University. He is a co-editor of several books, including AIDS in African and the Caribbean (Westview). Nigel Gibson, former Assistant Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University, is an assistant professor at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College and also a research associate in the Afro-American Studies program at both Brown and at Harvard University. He is the editor of Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue.