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- ISBN 9781805391302
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 2023
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or ‘capitals’ – including wealth, education, social relationships, religion, ethnicity, and others. Accordingly, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.
Joël Noret is Professor of Anthropology at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He has conducted most of his fieldwork in Southern Benin, where he works on urban transformation and the production of social inequality.
