Urban Dreams: Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso

URBAN DREAMS -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Claudia Roth's Work in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso -- Part I - Ethnography and Reflexivity -- Chapter 1 - Culture Shock, Power and Knowledge: Negotiating Boundaries in Ethnographic Fieldwork -- Part II - Negotiating Love and Marriage -- Chapter 2 - Beware When the Women of Bobo Dress Up!: An Ethnographic Contribution -- Chapter 3 - 'What is Love?': Changing Matrimony in Bobo-Dioulasso - A Case Study -- Chapter 4 - Social Security and Gender: Marital Crisis as a Mirror of the Economic Crisis -- Part III - Elderly Parents and Their Children: Sharing or Living in Poverty -- Chapter 5 - Blood Ties as a Social Network: The African Extended Family as an Economic Association -- Chapter 6 - The Invisible Impoverishment of the Elderly in Bobo-Dioulasso -- Chapter 7 - 'Shameful!': The Inverted Intergenerational Contract in Bobo-Dioulasso -- Chapter 8 - The Strength of Badenya Ties: Siblings and Social Security in Old Age - the Case of Urban Burkino Faso -- Part IV - Youth: Dreams and Hardships -- Chapter 9 - Tea and Dreams: Men's Generational Conflict in Bobo-Dioulasso -- Chapter 10 - Between Dreams of Grandeur and Pragmatism: Young People in Urban Burkina Faso -- Publications of Claudia Roth -- Index

URBAN DREAMS; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- Claudia Roth's Work in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso; Part I -- Ethnography and Reflexivity; Chapter 1 -- Culture Shock, Power and Knowledge: Negotiating Boundaries in Ethnographic Fieldwork; Part II -- Negotiating Love and Marriage; Chapter 2 -- Beware When the Women of Bobo Dress Up!: An Ethnographic Contribution; Chapter 3 -- 'What is Love?': Changing Matrimony in Bobo-Dioulasso -- A Case Study; Chapter 4 -- Social Security and Gender: Marital Crisis as a Mirror of the Economic Crisis.

Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods, Roth's work calls into question established notions of "the African family" as a solidary network, documents changing marriage and kinship relations under the impact of a persistent economic crisis, and explores the increasingly precarious social status of young women and men

Introduction : Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso / Willemijn de Jong -- Culture shock, power and knowledge : negotiating boundaries in ethnographic fieldwork -- Beware when the women of Bobo dress up! : an ethnographic contribution -- "What is love?" : changing matrimony in Bobo-Dioulasso : a case study -- Social security and gender : marital crisis as a mirror of the economic crisis -- Blood ties as a social network : the African extended family as an economic association -- The invisible impoverishment of the elderly in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso -- "Shameful!" : the inverted intergenerational contract in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso -- The strength of Badenya ties : siblings and social security in old age : the case of urban Burkina Faso -- Tea and dreams : men's generational conflict in Bobo-Dioulasso -- Between dreams of grandeur and pragmatism : young people in urban Burkina Faso