Conspicuous Consumption in Africa

ISBN-13: 9781776143641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Ilana Van Wyk; Deborah Posel

Opis

From early department stores in Cape Town to gendered histories of sartorial success in urban Togo, contestations over expense accounts at an apartheid state enterprise, to elite wealth and political corruption in Angola, this collection of essays explores the ways in which conspicuous consumption is foregrounded in various African contexts.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Chapter 1 Thinking with Veblen: Case Studies from Africa’s Past and Present - Deborah Posel and Ilana van Wyk
• Chapter 2 Changes in the Order of Things: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Cape Town – Deborah Posel
• Chapter 3 Conspicuously Public: Gendered Histories of Sartorial and Social Success in Urban Togo – Nina Sylvanus
• Chapter 4 Etienne Rousseau, Broedertwis and the Politics of Consumption within Afrikanerdom – Stephen Sparks
• Chapter 5 Recycling Consumption: Political Power and Elite Wealth in Angola – Claudia Gastrow
• Chapter 6 Chiluba’s Trunks: Consumption, Excess and the Body Politic in Zambia – Karen Tranberg Hansen
• Chapter 7 Jacob Zuma’s Shamelessness: Conspicuous Consumption, Politics and Religion – Ilana van Wyk
• Chapter 8 Precarious ‘Bigness’: A ‘Big Man’, his Women and his Funeral in Cameroon – Rogers Orock
• Chapter 9 Young Men of Leisure? Youth, Conspicuous Consumption and the Performativity of Dress in Niger – Adeline Masquelier
• Chapter 10 Booty on Fire: Looking at Izikhothane with Thorstein Veblen – Jabulani G Mnisi
• Chapter 11 Conspicuous Queer Consumption: Emulation and Honour in the Pink Map – Bradley Rink
• Chapter 12 The Politics and Moral Economy of Middle-Class Consumption in South Africa – Sophie Chevalier
• Chapter 13 Marigold Beads: Who Needs Diamonds?! – Joni Brenner and Pamila Gupta
• Contributors
• Index