- Title
- Gender and popular imaginaries in Africa:
- Creator
- Spencer, Lynda G
- Creator
- Ligaga, Dina
- Creator
- Musila, Grace
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138860
- Identifier
- vital:37679
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2018.1526467
- Description
- If we accept that many Africans’ social perceptions on a range of questions, including gender, are shaped by popular cultural productions which retain a keen pulse on the everyday, then it is important to reflect on the interface between gender and popular imaginaries. The debate on the definition of the ‘popular’ remains an open one with multiple interpretations and categories. This contestation in itself gestures towards popular culture’s inclination for ambiguity and slipperiness. As Karin Barber (2018:13) reminds us, the popular constitutes “expressive forms that are constantly emergent, ephemeral, embedded in daily life, given to extraordinary bursts of activity and rapid transformation”. For George Ogola, popular cultural forms “engage with and subject the polity to constant critique through informal but widely recognised forms of censure” (2017:2). In this special issue, we use popular imaginaries to mean the range of cultural productions, platforms, and interactions between consumers and producers - which are often interchangeable - that capture the material, the affective, as inflected and refracted in different texts, contexts and platforms.
- Format
- 7 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Agenda
- Relation
- Lynda Gichanda Spencer, Dina Ligaga and Grace A Musila (2018) Gender and Popular Imaginaries in Africa, Agenda, 32:3, 3-9, DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2018.1526467
- Relation
- Agenda volume 32 number 3 3 9 October 2018 1013-0950
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