Social Im/mobilities in Africa

<p> Grounded in both theory and ethnography this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa's current age of polarizing wealth. To this end the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or 'capitals' - including wealth education social relationships religion ethnicity and others. Accordingly the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of 'gains' and 'losses'.</p>