Best book I have ever read on Addis Ababa and very good for teaching !
Dr Diego Maria Malara
Lecturer in Global Religion
School of Social and Political Sciences
University of Glasgow
40 Bute Gardens, Adam Smith Building (1006)
Glasgow, G12 8RT, United Kingdom
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https://glasgow.academia.edu/DiegoMariaMalara
Recent publications:
2018 The Alimentary Forms of Religious Life: Technologies of the Other, Lenience, and the Ethics of Ethiopian Orthodox Fasting. Social Analysis, 63(4): 21-41.
2018 (Co-auhtor Maya Mayblin). Discipline and Lenience in Religious Systems: An Introduction. Social Analysis, 63(4): 1-20.
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Oggetto: The Act of Living by Marco Di Nunzio
Dear ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS Subscribers,
We would like to announce a new publication from Cornell University Press, which we hope will be of interest.
The Act of Living
Street Life, Marginality, and Development in Urban Ethiopia
Marco Di Nunzio
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/the-act-of-living
"Marco Di Nunzio has written an outstanding and inspiring piece of scholarship and is on his way to becoming a leading voice in Ethiopian studies. Di Nunzio is to be congratulated on this anthropology of street life that adds rich stories to ethnographic narrative." - Tobias Hagmann, University of Roskilde, and editor of Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa
"The Act of Living is an ethnographically rich book, clearly informed by years of careful, meticulous fieldwork and strong links of sociality and trust between the author and his informants." - Jon Schubert, Brunel University London, and author of Working the System
"The Act of Living is one of the most thoughtful and insightful books written about contemporary Ethiopia in recent years. While weaving a rich story of living meaningfully under conditions of exclusion and subjugation, Di Nunzio offers a radical critique of such pivotal issues as development, marginality, exclusion, agency, and incommensurability. This is a book with verve, well-crafted and theoretically engaging." - Shimelis Bonsa Gulema, Stony Brook University, New York
The Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Replete with richly depicted characters and multi-layered narratives on history, everyday life and visions of the future, Marco Di Nunzio's ethnography of hustling and street life is an investigation of what is to live, hope and act in the face of the failing promises of development and change.
Di Nunzio follows the life trajectories of two men, "Haile" and "Ibrahim," as they grow up in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, enter street life to get by, and turn to the city's expanding economies of work and entrepreneurship to search for a better life. Apparently favourable circumstances of development have not helped them achieve social improvement. As their condition of marginality endures, the two men embark in restless attempts to transform living into a site for hope and possibility.
By narrating Haile and Ibrahim's lives, The Act of Living explores how and why development continues to fail the poor, how marginality is understood and acted upon in a time of promise, and why poor people's claims for open-endedness can lead to better and more just alternative futures. Tying together anthropology, African studies, political science, and urban studies, Di Nunzio takes readers on a bold exploration of the meaning of existence, hope, marginality, and street life.
Marco Di Nunzio is Lecturer in the Anthropology of Africa at the University of Birmingham.
With all best wishes,
Combined Academic Publishers
Cornell University Press | April 2019 | 264pp | 9781501736261 | PB | £23.99*
*Price subject to change.
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