La chance: Uncertainty, Knowledge Production and Gameplay among University Graduates in Bamako, Mali

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Susann Ludwig

La chance

Uncertainty, Knowledge Production and Gameplay among University Graduates in Bamako, Mali

Susann Ludwig

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Transcript Verlag
21 May 2024

Social & cultural anthropology; Higher & further education, tertiary education

Series: Culture and Social Practice

"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."

By: Susann Ludwig
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm,
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9783837669893
ISBN 10: 3837669890
Series: Culture and Social Practice
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 21 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Susann Ludwig, born in 1987, is affiliated with the University of Leipzig, Germany. She did her doctorate at the Centre for African Studies at Universit�t 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.