SOCIAL IM/MOBILITIES IN AFRICA

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socioeconomic

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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’.

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Niglá: Methodology of Discontinuous (Im)Mobilities among Malian Kel Tamasheq in Bamako

Abstract This article analyses the research methods adopted while working with K

Refugee mobilities in East Africa: understanding secondary movements

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Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post‐)Colonial Southern Africa**

This article explores how borders in Southern Africa—such as Namibia's internal veterinary and settl

Navigating (im)mobility: female entrepreneurship and social media in Khartoum

Abstract Through Facebook and other social media, a growing number of well-educated women in Kharto

Household Capabilities and Satisfaction with Living Conditions Shape (Im)Mobilities: A Gendered Analysis of Migration Dynamics of a Drought-Prone Area of Ethiopia