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A revista Cadernos de Estudos Africanos é uma publicação do Centro de Estudos Internacionais (CEI-IUL) do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) especializada em temáticas africanas. Aberta à comunidade científica internacional que trabalha nas áreas das Ciências Sociais e Humanas sobre este continente, apostando na internacionalização, na inter e multidisciplinaridade, publica artigos originais em quatro línguas (português, inglês, espanhol e francês). Os artigos são seleccionados pela Comissão Editorial e através de um rigoroso sistema de arbitragem por pares em regime de anonimato. A revista Cadernos de Estudos Africanos tem tido desde o seu primeiro número, datado de Julho de 2001, uma publicação regular e semestral.

Africa --- Afrique --- african studies --- sub-saharan africa --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Social sciences --- History of Africa --- Africa. --- Eastern Hemisphere

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Anthropologist Sandya Hewamanne spent time in a Sri Lankan free trade zone (FTZ) working and living among the workers to learn about their lives. "They were poor women from rural areas," Hewamanne writes, "who migrated to do garment work in transnational factories of a global assembly line. Their difficult work routines and sad living conditions have been examined in detail. When I was with them I often wondered whether anyone noticed the smiles, winks, smirks, gestures, tones of voice, the movies they saw, or the songs they sang." Hewamanne deftly weaves theories of identity, globalization, and cultural politics throughout her detailed accounts of the workers' efforts to negotiate ever shifting roles and expectations of gender, class, and sexuality.By analyzing how these workers claim political subjectivity, Hewamanne's Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone challenges conventional notions about women at the bottom of the global economy. The book offers a fascinating journey through the vibrant subaltern universe of Sri Lankan female migrant workers, from the FTZ factory shop floor to boarding houses, from urban movie theaters to temples and beaches and back to their native rural villages. Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone captures the spirit with which women confront power and violence through everyday poetics and politics, exploring how female workers construct themselves as different while investigating this difference as the space where deep anxieties and ambivalences over notions of nation, modernity, and globalization get played out.

Women migrant labor --- Women --- Sex role --- Free trade --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- African Studies. --- Anthropology. --- Asian Studies. --- Folklore. --- Gender Studies. --- Linguistics. --- Middle Eastern Studies.

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This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the book provides concrete suggestions on how individuals and communities of faith must act in order to address the challenge of climate change. Despite the fact that Africa has contributed relatively little to historic carbon emissions, the continent will be affected disproportionally by the increasing impact of anthropogenic climate change. Contributors to this book provide a range of rich case studies to investigate how religious traditions such as Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and indigenous faiths influence the worldviews and actions of their adherents. The chapters also interrogate how the moral authority and leadership provided by religion can be used to respond and adapt to the challenges posed by climate change. Topics covered include risk reduction and resilience, youth movements, indigenous knowledge systems, environmental degradation, gender perspectives, ecological theories, and climate change financing. This book will be of interest to scholars in diverse fields, including religious studies, sociology, political science, climate change and environmental humanities. It may also benefit practitioners involved in solving community challenges related to climate change.

Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African Studies --- Social sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- christianity --- environment --- indigenous religion --- islam --- religious authority --- Africa --- Religion. --- Religious life and customs. --- Environmental conditions. --- Eastern Hemisphere

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Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers.

African literature --- History and criticism. --- literary traditions --- African studies --- James Currey --- African Literature Today --- African languages --- indigenous languages --- languages of colonizers --- Swahili --- African culture --- Conference of African Writers --- ALT

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Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and even after the Civil War, black barbers endured a measure of social stigma for perpetuating inequality: though the profession offered economic mobility to black entrepreneurs, black barbers were obliged by custom to serve an exclusively white clientele. Quincy T. Mills traces the lineage from these nineteenth-century barbers to the bustling enterprises of today, demonstrating that the livelihood offered by the service economy was crucial to the development of a black commercial sphere and the barber shop as a democratic social space. Cutting Along the Color Line chronicles the cultural history of black barber shops as businesses and civic institutions. Through several generations of barbers, Mills examines the transition from slavery to freedom in the nineteenth century, the early twentieth-century expansion of black consumerism, and the challenges of professionalization, licensing laws, and competition from white barbers. He finds that the profession played a significant though complicated role in twentieth-century racial politics: while the services of shaving and grooming were instrumental in the creation of socially acceptable black masculinity, barbering permitted the financial independence to maintain public spaces that fostered civil rights politics. This sweeping, engaging history of an iconic cultural establishment shows that black entrepreneurship was intimately linked to the struggle for equality.

African Americans --- African American business enterprises --- Barbershops --- African American barbers --- Barbers, African American --- Barbers --- Barber shops --- Service industries --- African American-owned business enterprises --- Afro-American business enterprises --- Business enterprises, African American --- Business enterprises --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Race identity --- History --- Black people --- African Studies. --- African-American Studies. --- American History. --- American Studies.