Name: Witch Camps and Witchcraft Discourse in Africa: Critiquing Development Practices (en Inglés)
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Author: Mabefam, Matthew Gmalifo
ISBN: 9781666918496

portada Witch Camps and Witchcraft Discourse in Africa: Critiquing Development Practices (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Matthew Gmalifo Mabefam

Editorial

Lexington Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

208

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm

Peso

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9781666918496

Categorías

África
Estudios étnicos
Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica
Política y gobierno

Witch Camps and Witchcraft Discourse in Africa: Critiquing Development Practices (en Inglés)

Matthew Gmalifo Mabefam (Autor) · Lexington Books · Tapa Dura

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Witch Camps and Witchcraft Discourse in Africa: Critiquing Development Practices explores how local development interventions related to witchcraft in Africa intersect and conflict with globally accepted development practices. This book argues that development practitioners need to pay attention to what concepts like "witchcraft" and "occult" mean to local people, and provides a nuanced account of how different development actors conceptualize and approach development in Africa through communities of refuge. Matthew Mabefam invites development practitioners to be open to culturally sensitive solutions to social inequalities, rather than dismissing them and acting in ways that may further aggravate the challenges faced by individuals accused of witchcraft. The foundational knowledge for the book is derived from ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in Gnani in Northern Ghana--a rural community that provides refuge for people who have been banished from their communities--and is deeply informed by the author's experiences of growing up and working within refuge communities in Ghana. This book contributes to the decolonization of development epistemes, knowledge, and practices, and contributes to a better understanding of the limits of the neo-liberal paradigm of socio-economic development that has dominated the direction of development policy.