James Ferguson's scientific contributions
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... Secondly, the co-production of modernity by the colonizer and the colonized in Africa has been demonstrated by numerous ethnographic studies over the post-colonial period, illustrating the ways that urban Africans have adopted cosmopolitan sensibilities that are unique to their particular urban settings. In one seminal example, James Ferguson explored the adoption of new cosmopolitan identities in the towns of Zambia's copperbelt in the 1980s ( Ferguson 1994 ). Understanding identity through theories of performativity, he argued that urban people adopted cosmopolitan styles that were both alien to their rural origins but refused to fit into the categories of the Western or liberal subject ( Ferguson 1994 , 98-99). ...
