Ordinary Violence and Social Change in Africa: 31 (Afrika-studiecentrum, 31) - Softcover

Ordinary social violence, - recurrent mental or physical aggression occurring between closely related people - structures social relationships. This book presents anthropological case studies from different parts of Africa to show how this ‘hidden’ violence is essential to understand social change.

Jacky Bouju is associate professor at the Department of Anthropology at Aix-Marseille University and assistant director of Centre d’Études des Mondes Africains, Aix–en–Provence, France.

Mirjam de Bruijn is professor in African Studies at Leiden University and senior researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden. She has been publishing widely around the themes of mobility, crisis, uncertainty, agency and information and communication technology.