Mobile Africa - Changing Patterns of Movement in Africa and Beyond

This anthology deals with the complexity, variety and experience of all the forms of mobility we witness today in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three sets of issues are being discussed. This book intends to turn the whole notion of mobility as a supposedly rupturing phenomenon on its head, emphasizing that rather through travelling connections are established and continuity is experienced. We are challenged to delve into the traveller's mind, to think and follow their multi-spatial livelihoods and to explore what it means to people if they move in a variety of spaces.

About the author

Mirjam de Bruijn is an anthropologist working on the theme of how people manage risk (drought, war, etc.) in the Sahel.
Rijk van Dijk is an anthropologist researching modern religion in Africa and in Ghana and Malawi in particular.
Dick Foeken is a human geographer whose present research interest concerns urban agriculture in Africa, especially in Kenya and Tanzania.

All three work at the African Studies Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mirjam De Bruijn (Editor), Rijk Van Dijk (Editor), Dick Foeken (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2001
• EAN: 9789004120723
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12072-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 242 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: African Dynamics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)