Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria (eBook)

Ebenezer Obadare (Autor)

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2016
188 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-78204-691-2 (ISBN)

Infos

An important contribution to the debate on forms of civil society in Africa and elsewhere, and to the global literature on dissent.In Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria, Ebenezer Obadare offers an innovative perspective on the idea and reality of civil society. Mobilizing a wide range of concepts and insights from political science, African studies, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, anthropology, communications theory, and international development, Obadare develops a notion of civil society that radically departs from the literature's axiomatic focus on voluntary civic associations and focuses instead on more informal strategies of resistance, such as humor and silence. Compellingly argued, Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria raises provocative questions on a topic of keen importance for students, scholars, and policymakers. Ebenezer Obadare is professor of sociology at the University of Kansas. He is coeditor of Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century(James Currey, 2014).

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction: On the Terms of a Debate
A Terrain of Contention
An African Discourse
The Uses of Levity
Siddon Look
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.2.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
• Reihe/Serie: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
• Verlagsort: Rochester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: African Studies • Anthropology • Chief Bola Ige • Christianity • Civil Society • Communications Theory • Cultural Studies • Democracy • Ebenzer Obadare • IBB • Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida • International Development • International Relations • Jane Guyer • Jean Comaroff • John Comaroff • Lagos • Media Studies • Moshood Kashimawo Abiola • Neera Chandhoke • NGO • NGOs • Nigeria • Nongovernmental Organizations • political resistance • Political Science • Postcolonialism • resistance • siddon look • Sociology • tanda look • uprising
• ISBN-10: 1-78204-691-7 / 1782046917
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78204-691-2 / 9781782046912