Africa on the move : shifting identities, histories, boundaries

Hana Horáková, Stephanie Rudwick, Martin Schmiedl

• Editorial: LIT Verlag
• Año: 2020
• ISBN:
  9783643961747
• Categoría: Politics & International Relations
• Categoría: Geopolitics

Africa is on the move. New geopolitical constellations have prompted individuals and groups to escape war, authoritarian regimes, environmental crises, and poverty. This has led to multiple migration patterns and complex mobilities of African people within and outside of Africa. This volume demonstrates that there is no unifying way to conceptualise the multiple nature of African mobilities. Some authors have conceptualised mobility on a metaphorical level while others provide analyses along spatial movement. This volume offers a vast portrayal of the diversity, innovation and richness of African mobile experiences through geographical, linguistic and socio-political domains. Providing nuanced and complex analyses offered by African Studies scholars of various disciplines, this book aims to contribute to new insights into African mobile experiences and to a repositioning of how Africa is represented globally.

Índice

• Cover
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction: Migration and Mobility in and out of Africa
• Sedentarisation, Continuous Mobility and Gender among Tuaregs in the North of Niger
• Redefining Female Freedom in Contemporary African Women's Migrant Writing
• “My Body is African, but my Soul is Czech.” Othering and Belonging in the Biographies of The Namibian Czechs
• Language, Class and Racial Mobility in South Africa
• Between Tradition and Modernity: The Non-Ethnic Identity in Post-Genocide Rwanda
• Mobility of Values and Standpoints towards Democracy: South Africa's Fragile Democracy?