Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Vigneswaran, Darshan
2. Quirk, Joel

Description

1. vi, 297 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm

Subject

1. Internal migrants > Government policy > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Case studies
2. State, The
3. Africa, Sub-Saharan > Social policy > Case studies
4. Africa, Sub-Saharan > Politics and government > Case studies
5. Migration, Internal > Political aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Case studies

Contents

1. Mobility makes states / Joel Quirk and Darshan Vigneswaran -- Portuguese empire building and human mobility in São Tomé and Angola, 1400s-1700s / Filipa Ribeiro da Silva -- "Captive to civilization" : law, labor mobility, and violence in colonial Mozambique / Eric Allina -- Victims, saviors, and suspects : channeling mobility in post-genocide Rwanda / Simon Turner -- Channeling mobility across a segregated Johannesburg / Darshan Vigneswaran -- Policy spectacles : promoting migration-development scenarios in Ghana / Nauja Kleist -- Kinetocracy : the government of mobility at the desert's edge / Benedetta Rossi -- Decolonization and (dis)possession in Lusophone Africa / Pamila Gupta -- Moving from war to peace in the Zambia-Angola borderlands / Oliver Bakewell -- Recognition, solidarity, and the power of mobility in Africa's urban estuaries / Loren B. Landau.

Call number

1. Sc E 15-958

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Mobility makes states : migration and power in Africa / edited by Darshan Vigneswaran and Joel Quirk.

Publisher

1. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Copyright date

1. ©2015

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Vigneswaran, Darshan, editor, author.
2. Quirk, Joel, editor, author.

LCCN

1. 2015008531

ISBN

1. 9780812247114 (alk. paper)
2. 0812247116 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 15-958