Nomadic Connectivity: An Ethnography of Walad Djifir Navigating Insecurities in Central Africa: 3 - Brossura

Butter, Inge

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ISBN 10: 3112213734 ISBN 13: 9783112213735

Casa editrice: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025

Riassunto

A focus on the everyday has produced this ethnography, which hopes to give a nuanced voice to an extended family of semi-sedentary nomads, living at the centre of a country and region known for its political turmoil, ecological insecurities, and socio-economic hardship. The everyday of the Chadian Walad Djifir is one in which sedentarity and mobility are approached as two entwined parts of a whole, and where economic and geographical boundaries do not necessarily form constrictions. The ferīkh (nomadic camp) is where all of the Walad Djifir’s networks meet, and often also begin― a physical place embodying various networks and connections, which span time and geographical space. This analytical and methodological approach gives insight in how regional trends can be understood in light of the Walad Djifir’s daily lives. Over time, the Walad Djifir have developed ways of coping and dealing with insecurities, interacting with infrastructural, technological, and socio-political developments in specific ways. In exploring how such insecurities and crises become anchored into the everyday, the ferīkh provides answers. It is precisely the mundane elements of daily life which anchor disruption.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Inge Butter, African Studies Centre, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3112213734
• ISBN 13: 9783112213735
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 253
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