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Author Iocchi, Alessio

Title Living Through Crisis by Lake Chad Violence, Labor and Resources
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (209 p.)
Series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa Ser
Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa Ser
Contents Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Approach -- Notes -- References -- Part I Patterns of Accumulation and Dispossession in the Sahel -- 1 Lines: Rethinking Networks, Labor and Resources in the Sahel -- Informality, Agency, and Neoliberalism -- Africa Between Structure and Agency -- Informality and Labor -- Agency, Space, and Boundaries On the Saharan Frontier -- The Poly-Functional Self -- A Matter of Scales
Sahel as an Epistemic Frontier: Between Civilization and Wilderness -- Captivity and Freedom at the Frontier -- The Meshwork: Landscape, Networks, and Navigation -- Translocal Entanglements -- Nodes -- Nodes of Ambiguity -- Notes -- References -- 2 Space, Subjects, Gateways: Forging Techniques of Power in the Sahel -- The Mobile Frontiers of Belief and Disbelief -- Race and Enslavability in the Sahel -- In Search of Statehood: Islam and Power -- Fixing Mobile Targets: Slave-Hunting as a Political Device -- A Regional Power -- A Regional Power Challenged: Who Is a Believer?
Engineering a New Landscape -- Crisis and Reform -- Fall of an Empire -- Redesigning Power: A Euro-Bornuan Joint Venture -- Colonial Incorporation and Wealth Extraction -- Toward 'Development': The Polder System -- Notes -- References -- Part II Living Through Crises By Lake Chad -- 3 Raiders of the Lost Wealth: Accumulation, Dispersal, Dispossession -- Labor, Resources, and Hybrid Circulations -- The Ecological Landscape of Lake Chad -- 'Development' and Labor -- Customary Authorities and Credit Relationships -- Informal Trades, Codified Networks
Accumulation, Stratification, and (Political) Navigation -- Renovating Modes of Extraction, Maintaining Social Stratification -- Winners and Losers: Resource Governance and Class Stratification -- Notes -- References -- 4 Le Dérapage: The Boko Haram Crisis By Lake Chad -- Debellare Superbos (Et Subiectis): Borno Politics and the Rise of Boko Haram -- Resource Governance and (Borno) Politics -- "Faith Without Hypocrisy" at the Test of Political Bargaining -- From "Champion of the Downtrodden" to Terrorist -- Oderint Dum Metuant: Emplacement of Violence By Lake Chad -- Raiding Redux: War in Baga
Economic Integration and the Embodiment of Violence -- Notes -- References -- 5 Navigating the Meshwork: Map-Reading an (Armed) Landscape -- Everyday Life in a Contingency Economy -- 'Peace-keeping' Encounters -- Rebels and Politicians By Lake Chad -- Soldiers, Rebels, and Islands of Security -- The 'NGO Universe' By the Lake... -- ...and the Military Management -- Agency, 'Plasticity', and (Fluid) Allegiances -- The Plasticity of Securitization Narratives -- 'Victim-cy' -- Whose Modernity? -- A Moral Derailment -- Living With the "Crisis": Kinai -- Decision-Making as Civil War? -- Kinai in Context
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Cultivating, Fishing, and Migrating
Subject Economic history
Social conditions
SUBJECT Africa -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001548
Africa -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001574
Subject Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000610444
1000610446
9781032155296
1032155299
9781003244530
100324453X