Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
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Date
2017
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Routledge
Abstract
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.
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Difference, Performance, Mediation, Africa, Culture, Religion
Citation
Becker, H. & Schulz, D. (2017). Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 29(2): 149-157