The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa – Beyond the Margins

Foreword - James Ferguson Approaching the Political Economy of Everyday Life: An Introduction - Wale Adebanwi PART I - MONEY MATTERS: CURRENCY AND FISCAL LIFE STRUGGLES Cattle, Currencies and the Politics of Commensuration on a Colonial Frontier - John and Jean Comaroff Currency and Conflict in Colonial Nigeria - David Pratten Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) - Peter L Geschiere Coercion or Trade? Multiple Self-realization during the Rubber Boom in German Kamerun (1899-1913) - Tristan Oestermann The Macroeconomics of Marginal Gains: Africa's Lessons to Social Theorists - Celestin Monga PART II - LABOUR, SOCIAL LIVES AND PRECARITY From Enslavement to Precarity? The Labour Question in African History - Frederick Cooper Navigating Formality in a Migrant Labour Force - Maxim Bolt PART III - MARGINALITY, DISAFFECTION AND BIO-ECONOMIC DISTRESS Precarious Life: Violence and Poverty Under Boko Haram and MEND - Michael J. Watts The Debt Imperium: Relations of Owing after Apartheid - Anne-Maria Makhulu Marginal Men and Social Conflicts in Nigeria: Okada Riders in Lagos - Gbemisola Animasawun Sopona, Social Relations and the Political Economy of Colonial Smallpox Control in Ekiti, Nigeria - Elisha P. Renne PART IV - HISTORY, TEMPORALITY, AGENCY AND DEMOCRATIC LIFE History as Value Added? Valuing the Past in Africa - Sara S. Berry Cultural Mediation, Colonialism and Politics: Colonial "Truchement", Postcolonial Translator - Souleymane Bachir Diagne "Kos'ona Miran?" Patronage, Prebendalism and Democratic Life in Contemporary Nigeria - Adigun Agbaje AFTERWORD: The Landscapes Beyond the Margins: Agency, Optimization and the Power of the Empirical - Jane Guyer

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Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa.