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The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where university graduates constitute an educational elite strongest affected by unemployment. Graduates know that la chance decides whether they succeed or fail. Susann Ludwig shows that this concept embodies common sense as much as it offers the possibility of the extraordinary. Graduates play »the game of la chance«, in which success is defined by a continuation of play rather than an end goal. Providing an explorative experience to the reader, this study accounts for the elusiveness of la chance in the Bamako context and beyond.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 August 2024
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837669893
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Susann Ludwig, born in 1987, is affiliated with the University of Leipzig, Germany. She did her doctorate at the Centre for African Studies at Universität Basel (ZASB). As a social anthropologist in African studies, she is fascinated by the every-day play of people doing things, and by questions related to chance, space, relationality, and possibility. Overall, she has spent two years doing ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa, particularly in Bamako, Mali.
Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
INTRO 9
THIS BOOK: chapter description 27
1 Knowledge / Situating La Chance in Graduates' Knowledge 37
2 Graduates / Situating La Chance in Graduates' Everyday Lives 59
3 A Manual 93
4 La chance / Emergence 109
5 La chance / Encounter 173
GAMEPLAY: The game of opening up la chance 231
Bibliography 245
Acknowledgements 253