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Werbner, P ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2296-9851
(2017)
Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu.
Review of African Political Economy, 45 (155).
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Abstract
The article considers the historiography of labour and class studies in sub-Saharan Africa in relation to the contemporary ‘cultural turn’ in sociological studies of class. It identifies three phases: from the 1960s, a highly empiricist Marxist approach which drew on Fanon’s notion of an aristocracy of labour; from the 1980s, a shift to a stress on culture, agency and identity, following E. P. Thompson; the final move has focused on the African middle classes, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of consumption. Research on a public sector manual workers’ union in Botswana exemplifies, the author argues, the Thompsonian approach.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | The final version of this article with all relevant information can be found at; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03056244.2017.1367655 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | African class, Botswana, trade unions, African labour, culture, identity |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HS Societies secret benevolent etc H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social, Political and Global Studies |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2020 13:36 |
Last Modified: | 12 Aug 2020 14:05 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/8521 |
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