Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts

Regimes of Responsibility in Africa ­analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection develops a stronger grasp of the specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same time, while focusing on case studies from the African continent, the work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, adding to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Introduction: Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts Benjamin Rubbers and Alessandro Jedlowski Chapter 1. Historical Regimes of Responsibility in ‘The Politics of the Belly’ Jean-François Bayart Chapter 2. The Use(fulness) of Discourses of 'Responsibility' on the DRC's ‘Sovereign Frontier’ Stylianos Moshonas Chapter 3. High Officials’ Responsibility and State Accountability in the Age of Neoliberal Discharge: Views from Mozambique Rozenn Nakanabo Diallo Chapter 4. Reproduction, Responsibility and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire Armando Cutolo and Giulia Almagioni Chapter 5. Human Care or Human Capital: Corporate Responsibility and HIV Management at South Africa’s Mines Dinah Rajak Chapter 6. For What Are Persons With Disabilities Responsible? The Study of Public, Social and Family Responsibilities in the Context of Locomotor Disability (Cape Flats, South Africa) Marie Schnitzler Chapter 7. Diverting Makila Mabe: Understanding Responsibility in Kinshasa’s Pentecostal Worlds Katrien Pype Chapter 8. The (Ir)Responsible Witch: Ambiguities among the Maka of Southeast Cameroon Peter Geschiere Chapter 9. The ‘Return of Culture’: Spiritual Threats, Asylum Policies and the Responsibility of Anthropological Knowledge Roberto Beneduce Index

About the Author :
Benjamin Rubbers is Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Liège, Belgium. He is also the author of three monographs and numerous journal articles and book chapters on the Congolese Copperbelt, which he has frequently visited on fieldtrips since 1999.

Review :
“Regimes of Responsibility contributes to a growing number of histories in anthropology, political science, religious studies, economics, and history. This volume is unique in that it spans sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on neoliberal periodization and the way its effects are understood by local communities, with ‘responsibility’ as its discursive frame.” • African Studies Review