Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2173141
AutoresHeike Becker (0000-0002-8079-9152, Department of Anthropology & Sociology; University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, autor de correspondencia), Dorothea E Schulz (University of Cologne), Dieter Schulz (0000-0002-5750-8994, Department of Cultural & Social Anthropology; University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany), Dorothea Schulz
Año2017
Volumen29
Número2
Páginas149-157
Fecha de publicación2017-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13696815.2017.1295912
OpenAlexW2607496203
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas29

This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. In the early twenty-first century, Africa appears to be witnessing a historical moment characterized by a resurgence of a politics of difference that, regardless of the heterogeneous forms in which it materializes, shares an uncanny ability to produce and sustain identities based on a politics of difference

Aesthetics · Art · Mediation · Political science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cultural Identity and Heritage · History · Law