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Moral Economies of Distribution and Redistribution in Africa by Tijo Salverda (Hardback)
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9781041129059
Published:
03 Nov 2025
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Hardback
Number of pages:
190 pages
Dimensions:
246mm
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0.000kgs
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This book examines how distribution and redistribution intertwine in everyday African economic life, challenging conventional understandings of capitalism on the continent. It reveals how perceptions of economic fairness connect macro-political economies with micro-level social norms and expectations.
This book examines how distribution and redistribution intertwine in everyday African economic life, challenging conventional understandings of capitalism on the continent. Through rich ethnographic studies spanning eight countries—Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe—the volume reveals how perceptions of economic fairness connect macro political economies with micro-level social norms and expectations.As debates about economic inequality intensify globally, this timely work illuminates how African actors navigate complex distributional pressures, duties, and dilemmas in contemporary capitalist contexts. The contributors provide nuanced analyses of socioeconomic inequalities that often remain obscured in scholarly and public discourse, making a significant contribution to the growing field of moral economy research in Africa and beyond.This book is essential reading for scholars of African studies, economic anthropology, development studies, and anyone interested in understanding how moral frameworks shape economic practices across diverse African settings.The chapters in this book were originally published in Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
About the Author: Tijo Salverda is an Economic Anthropologist, who has held several research positions and (temporary and guest) professorships at e.g. the University of Vienna, University of Pretoria, and University of Cologne. Tijo has published widely on elites, inequality, moral economy, and corporations and their critics - in Mauritius, Zambia, South Africa, and various European countries. He is also involved in applied-anthropological projects, with a particular focus on the just transition and the distribution of the costs and benefits of climate change.Cristiano Lanzano is a Social Anthropologist, currently affiliated with KULeuven (Belgium) and IFSRA (Burkina Faso). He has worked for more than fifteen years as a researcher and lecturer for different universities and institutes across Europe, such as the universities of Torino (Italy) and Uppsala (Sweden), and the Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden). He has conducted research in several West African countries, investigating on topics such as urban culture and youth, informal economies, labour mobilities, natural resources management, and the mineral sector. Jörg Wiegratz is Associate Professor of Global Political Economy and Development at the University of Leeds, School of Politics and International Studies. He is also Senior Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg. He specializes in neoliberalism, fraud and anti-fraud measures, commercialisation and economic pressure and related aspects of moral and political economy, with a focus on Uganda and Kenya. He is co-editor of Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud (2016, with David Whyte).
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