TY - BOOK ID - 50287247 TI - Social im/mobilities in Africa : ethnographic approaches AU - Noret, Joël AU - Noret, Joël PY - 2020 SN - 9781789204858 1789204852 1789204860 PB - New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, DB - UniCat KW - Social mobility KW - Social status KW - Africa KW - Social conditions KW - Mobility, Social KW - Sociology KW - Social standing KW - Socio-economic status KW - Socioeconomic status KW - Standing, Social KW - Status, Social KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Prestige KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - #SBIB:39A4 KW - #SBIB:39A2 KW - 316.44 KW - 316.44 Sociale mobiliteit. Sociale differentiatie KW - Sociale mobiliteit. Sociale differentiatie KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Toegepaste antropologie KW - Antropologie: methoden en technieken KW - Social mobility - Africa KW - Social status - Africa KW - Africa - Social conditions - 1960 KW - -Social mobility KW - Mobilité sociale KW - Social conditions. KW - Social mobility. KW - Social status. KW - Soziale Mobilität. KW - Soziale Situation. KW - Sozialstatus. KW - Statut social KW - Since 1960. KW - Africa. KW - Afrika. KW - Afrique KW - Conditions sociales KW - African Societies. KW - Immobilities. KW - Mobilities. KW - Political Economyl Moral Economy. KW - Social Inequality. KW - Social Positionality. KW - -Mobilité sociale UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50287247 AB - 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’. ER -