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  1. In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, Prisoners of Freedom shows how foreign aid and human rights activism hamper the pursuit of democratic citizenship in Africa.

  2. Jan 1, 2009 · Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor. Berkeley: University of California P ress, 2006. Pp. 260. ISBN: 978-0-520-24923-3. (hardcover); ISBN: 978-0-520-24924-0 (paperback)....

  3. Jul 16, 2007 · Prisoners of Freedom: human rights and the African poor by Harri Englund Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xi+247. US$21.95 (pbk.). - Volume 45 Issue 3

  4. Jan 24, 2022 · Prisoners of freedom : human rights and the African poor. by. Englund, Harri. Publication date. 2006. Topics. Human rights -- Malawi, Poverty -- Malawi, Ethnology -- Malawi, Democracy -- Malawi. Publisher. Berkeley : University of California Press.

  5. In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national...

  6. Sep 12, 2006 · In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies.

  7. Sep 12, 2006 · Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, Prisoners of Freedom shows how foreign aid and human rights activism hamper the pursuit of democratic citizenship in Africa. The book explores how activists’ aspirations of self-improvement, pursued under harsh economic conditions, find in the human rights discourse a new means ...

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