Africa today. Questioning digiltalization, gender and health

Land, health and family – classical anthropological topics – are ethnographically investigated in relation to state interventions and power asymmetries in Accra, Kumasi (Ghana) Abidjan (Ivory Coast), and Liberia. The digitalization of land and individual identity, social stigma and disease are questioned by intertwining fieldwork conducted in West Africa with larger cultural areas, thereby crossing the continent’s borders and imaginaries to address broader theoretical and ethical issues. How are gender and power relations deeply implicated in health, epidemics and moral stigma? How is personal/social identity being re-moulded by biometrics and neoliberal digitalization in contemporary societies? This book is one of the results of a shared engagement with mobility, teaching and research journey developed as part of the ACHIEVE-IT project. It forges a model of collaboration for joint future research, questioning technocratic or moral narratives such as efficiency, heroism, the family-as-safety-net, and agency.