Mirjam De Bruijn, Rijk Van Dijk

Gebundenes Buch

The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa

Beschreibung

The rapid increase in adoption of modern 'connective' technologies like the mobile phone has reshaped the social landscape of Africa. This book examines the myriad possibilities that the post-global moment offers African societies to develop and to relate, offering profound new insights into the processes of globalization.

Autor

ASTRID BOCHOW Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany ANGÉLIQUE BOS Leiden University, the Netherlands BEN COUSINS University of the Western Cape, South Africa JAN-BART GEWALD DANIELLE DE LAME Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium MAYKE KAAG African Studies Centre, Leiden/Utrecht University, the Netherlands LINDA VAN DE KAMP VU University Amsterdam/African Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands WALTER GAN NKWI University of Leiden, the Netherlands FRANCIS B. NYAMNJOH University of Cape Town, South Africa OKA OBONO University of Ibadan, Nigeria NEIL PARSONS University of Botswana MARJA SPIERENBURG VU University Amsterdam/University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-27801-2
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 295
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 149mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9781137278012
• ISBN-10: 1137278013
• Artikelnr.: 35719043