Side@Ways [electronic resource] : mobile margins and the dynamics of communication in Africa / edited by Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman & Francis Nyamnjoh.

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, French Publication details: Mankon, Cameroon : Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group ; Leiden, The Netherlands : African Studies Centre, c2013 2013) 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 electronic text (vi, 202 p.) :) ill., maps, digital fileISBN:

9789956728435

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification:

TK5103.2 .S53 2013

Online resources:

Full text available:

Contents:

Introduction : mobile margins and the dynamics of communication / Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman and Francis Nyamnjoh -- Mobilite et moyens de communication au Guera / Djimet Seli --- La connexion des marges: Marginalite politique et technologie de desenclavement en Basse Casamance (Sud du Senegal) / Fatima Diallo --- 'Angola my country, Cape Town my home' : a young migrant's journey of social becoming and belonging / Imke Gooskens -- Transnational migration and marginality : Nigerian migrants in Anglophone Cameroon / Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong -- Les femmes hadjaraye du Guera à l'ecole d'alphabetisation / Khalil Alio -- From foot messengers to cell phones : communication in Kom, Cameroon, c. 1916-1998 / Walter Gam Nkwi -- Grandeur ou miseres des cabines telephoniques privees et publiques au Mali / Naffet Keïta -- Information & communication technology and its impact on transnational migration : the case of Senegalese boat migrants / Henrietta Nyamnjoh -- Identities of place : mobile naming practices and social landscapes in Sudan / Siri Lamoureux.

Summary: Marginality does not mean isolation. In Africa where people are permanently on the move in search, inter alia, of a ëbetter elsewhereí, marginality means disconnection to obvious possibilities and the invisibility of the myriad connections that make life possible for the ordinarily sidestepped. This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ëglobal shadowsí of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africaís mobile margins? To what extent is the freedom associated with new Information and Communication Technologies reality or disillusion for people dwelling in the margins? Are ordinary Africans increasingly Side@Ways? How social are these emergent Side@Ways? Contributions to answering these and related questions are harvested from ethnographic insights by team members of the WOTRO funded ëMobile Africa revisitedí research programme hosted by the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

No physical items for this record

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

At head of title: Langaa & African Studies Centre.

Includes bibliographical references.

Marginality does not mean isolation. In Africa where people are permanently on the move in search, inter alia, of a ëbetter elsewhereí, marginality means disconnection to obvious possibilities and the invisibility of the myriad connections that make life possible for the ordinarily sidestepped. This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ëglobal shadowsí of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africaís mobile margins? To what extent is the freedom associated with new Information and Communication Technologies reality or disillusion for people dwelling in the margins? Are ordinary Africans increasingly Side@Ways? How social are these emergent Side@Ways? Contributions to answering these and related questions are harvested from ethnographic insights by team members of the WOTRO funded ëMobile Africa revisitedí research programme hosted by the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Articles in English and French.

Description based on print version record.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.