Addiction in South and East Africa Interdisciplinary Approaches /

This book explores both the existence and prevalence of addiction in South and East Africa, departing from traditional assumptions about addiction in the region. The authors employ an interdisciplinary approach to understand the actual prevalence of addiction and the forms it takes in South and East...

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Other Authors: Ndasauka, Yamikani., Kayange, Grivas Muchineripi., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Cham : 2019.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 pages)
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505 0 |a Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: Making a Case for Addiction in Africa; References; Part I: Conceptualization of Addiction; Chapter 2: Addiction in the Light of African Values: Undermining Vitality and Community; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Addiction, Immorality, and Western Ethics; 2.3 Addiction as Incompatible with Vitality; 2.4 Addiction as Incompatible with Community; 2.5 Concluding Remarks on Responding to Addiction; References; Chapter 3: Cannabis Use and Addiction in African Communities. 
505 8 |a A Value or a Vice?3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Cannabis Use and Addiction in Africa; 3.3 Cannabis as a Value in African Communities; 3.4 Cannabis as a Vice and Illegal in African Communities; 3.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: The Moral Question of Addiction: An African Philosophical Perspective; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Literature and Theory; Addiction as a Physical Disorder; Addiction as Behavioural Disorder; African Philosophical Perspectives; 4.3 Discussion; Addiction as a Disease; Addiction as a Behavioural Disorder; African Social Philosophy of Personhood; 4.4 Implications; 4.5 Conclusion. 
505 8 |a 6.3 Proverbs and Traditional Terms and Addiction6.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Sex Addiction in Contemporary African Fiction: An Analysis of Selected Works of Short Fiction; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Understanding Sexual Addiction; 7.3 The Concept of Sexual Addiction in Selected Works; 7.4 Gender Representation; 7.5 Age and Addiction to Sex; 7.6 Morality and Addiction to Sex; 7.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Popular Culture and Representations of Addiction: Understanding Malawi Urban Music in the Narratives of Drugs and Sex; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Understanding Urban Music in Malawi. 
505 8 |a Popular Culture, Malawi Urban Music and the Youth8.3 Understanding Addiction; 8.4 Representations of Addiction in Popular Culture; The Alcohol in Mafo's Songs; The Marijuana in Mafo Songs; Sex Addiction in Mafo; 8.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Semiotic Creativity and Innovation: Offshoots of Social Media Addiction; 9.1 Introduction: The Internet and Social Media; 9.2 Internet and Social Media in Zambia: Perspectives on Addiction; 9.3 Theoretical and Methodological Appraisal; 9.4 Conceptualizing Social Media; 9.5 Semiotic Creativity and Innovation. 
504 |a ReferencesChapter 5: An Ubuntu Approach to Addiction-Response Framework in Malawian Schools; 5.1 Introduction; Addiction and Ontology of the Human Person; The State of Addiction in Malawi and Sub-Saharan Africa; 5.2 Autonomy, Neoliberalism, the School, and Addiction; 5.3 Ubuntu-Responsive Frameworks to Addiction; Understanding Ubuntu; The School, Ubuntu and Addiction; 5.4 Conclusion; References; Part II: Addiction in Literature and Popular Culture; Chapter 6: Oral Traditions: A Tool for Understanding Alcohol and Drug Addiction in Swaziland; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Songs and Addiction. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
500 |a 9.6 Globalization and the Production of Locality. 
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