Anxiety in and about Africa : multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches /
edited by Andrea Mariko Grant and Yolana Pringle.
- 1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Cambridge Centre of African Studies series .
"This edited volume stems from a two-day interdisciplinary conference, "Anxiety in and about Africa," held at the University of Cambridge in June 2016"--Page vii
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction. States of Anxiety in Africa: Perspectives, Approaches, and Potential / Misapprehensions -- Outlaws and Anxiety in Southern Africa's Archaeological Past / Between the Anxiogenic and the Soothing: Settlers' Engagements with Africans in Dance in Colonial Africa, 1920s-30s / Epidemics and Anxiety in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century / Anxiety over Masculinity: Gendered and Sexual Struggles in Mwanga II's Buganda, 1884-97 / No End to the Trouble / Competing Development "Visions"? State Anxieties and Church Closures in Rwanda / "Right Now, I Don't Know What the Future Might Bring:" Hope, Anxiety, and Despair in the Burundian Crisis / "Obuganda Buladde": Power, Anxiety, and Calm in Postcolonial Buganda / Jonathon L. Earle. Yola na Pringle and Andrea Mariko Grant -- Rachel King -- Cécile Feza Bushidi -- Kalala Ngalamulume -- Naka nyike B. Musisi -- Decolonization Anxieties and the Evacuation of White Settlers from Kenya, 1963-64 / Will Jackson and Harry Firth-Jones -- Andrea Mariko Grant -- Simon Turner -- -- --
"This volume demonstrates the richness of anxiety as an analytical lens within African studies. Contributors call attention to ways of thinking about African spaces-physical, visceral, somatic, and imagined-as well as time and temporality. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the volume also brings histories of anxiety in colonial settings into conversation with work on the so-called negative emotions in disciplines beyond history. While anxiety has long been acknowledged as able to unsettle colonial narratives, to reveal the vulnerability of the colonial enterprise, this volume shows it can equally unsettle related narratives in the contemporary moment, such as those of sustainable development, migration, sexuality, and democracy. These essays therefore highlight the need to take emotions seriously as contemporary realities with particular histories that must be carefully mapped out"--