Undesirable Practices makes a historical intervention on aspects that have come to define contemporary social, human-rights and policy-oriented studies on Africa. Organised into six distinct chapters, it weaves a narrative that explores colonial and post-colonial constructs of nudity, circumcision, prostitution, slavery and trafficking in Northern Ghana from 1930 to 1972. These social processes were categorised as “undesirable” in the colonial lexicon and permeated the colonial social fabric and influenced policy.

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不良行为：加纳北部的妇女、儿童和身体政治，1930-1972 年，杰西卡·卡玛特 (Jessica Cammaert)

Undesirable Practices 对定义当代非洲社会、人权和政策导向研究的各个方面进行了历史性的干预。它分为六个不同的章节，编织了一个叙事，探索了 1930 年至 1972 年在加纳北部的裸体、割礼、卖淫、奴隶制和贩卖人口的殖民和后殖民建构。这些社会过程在殖民词典和渗透到殖民地社会结构并影响政策。