Social Im/mobilities in Africa

Joël Noret is Professor of Anthropology at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He has conducted most of his fieldwork in Southern Benin, where he works on urban transformation and the production of social inequality.

Introduction: Theorizing Social Im/mobilities in Africa

Joël Noret



Chapter 1. Inequality from up Close: Qur’anic Students in Northern Nigeria Working as Domestics

Hannah Hoechner



Chapter 2. 'Born Free to Aspire?' An Ethnographic Study of Rural Youths’ Aspirations in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Fawzia Mazanderani



Chapter 3. Great Expectations and Uncertain Futures: Education and Social Im/mobility in Niamey, Niger

Gabriella Körling



Chapter 4. ‘Precarious Prosperity?’ Social Im/mobilities Among Young Entrepreneurs in Kampala

Laura Camfield and William Monteith



Chapter 5. ‘Here Men Are Becoming Women and Women Men’: Gender, Class, and Space in Maputo, Mozambique

Inge Tvedten, Arlindo Uate and Lizete Mangueleze



Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt: A Discussion of Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Space

Benjamin Rubbers



Chapter 7. Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South African Border

Maxim Bolt



Chapter 8. Domestic Dramas: Class, Taste and Home Decoration in Buea, Cameroon

Ben Page



Conclusion: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Positionality in Africa

Joël Noret



Appendix I: Sample characteristics

Appendix II: Summary of entrepreneurs’ directions of social mobility



Index