Surviving With Dignity - Hausa Communities of Niamey, Niger

Informationen zum Autor Scott M. Youngstedt earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology at UCLA in 1993, and is currently Professor of Anthropology at Saginaw Valley State University. His ethnographic research in Niger over the past 24 years is primarily concerned with exploring the ways by which migrant Hausa construct communities in diaspora, create modernities, and negotiate personal identities in the context of neoliberal globalization. His work has been published in Africa Insight, African Studies Quarterly, African Studies Review, and City and Society, among other places. Youngstedt currently serves as Vice President of the West African Research Association and is in line to become its President in November 2012. Klappentext Surviving with Dignity focuses on the lived experience of two generations of migrant Hausa men in Niamey, Niger's capital city, set in a larger social matrix of national and global transformations. Their extraordinary ability to maintain their dignity despite their daily struggles to eke out a living in the face of structural violence and unrelenting hardship reveals a tremendously powerful will and capacity to keep going. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction - Making Sense of the WorldChapter 2: Niamey Yesterday and TodayChapter 3: Niamey and the Global Hausa DiasporaChapter 4: Striving for Survival and Meaning in Hausa Communities of NiameyChapter 5: Multiple Articulations of ModernityChapter 6: Growing Up Male in NiameyConclusion: Uncertain Futures

Product details

• Authors: Youngstedt, Scott M. Youngstedt, Youngstedt Scott M.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2012
• EAN: 9780739173503
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7350-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Niger, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Poverty & unemployment, Development Studies, Poverty and precarity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies, African Studies