Space, Place and Identity

Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century

Florian Köhler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-636-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages. The book analyses the consequences that the recent change entails for social group formation and collective identification, and how this impacts integration into wider society amid the structures of the modern nation state.

Autor

Florian Köhler is currently a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. He is also trained as a practitioner in peace-building and conflict-resolution and worked for the German Development Service (DED) in Haiti and for the Civil Peace Service (ZFD) in Niger, Benin and Burkina Faso.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Language and Transcriptions



Introduction



Part I: Taariihi: Mobility and Group Formation in Historical Perspective



Chapter 1. The Wodaabe in Niger: Structure as Historical Process

Chapter 2. A History of Migrations: Placemaking Processes in Diachronic Perspective



Part II: Duuniyaaru: Spaces of Social Interaction



Chapter 3. Inter-ethnic Relations: The Balance of Integration and Conflict

Chapter 4. A Meta-ethnic Social Space: The Continuum of Identity and Difference



Part III: Ladde: Transformations in the Pastoral Realm



Chapter 5. From Nomadic Pastoralism to Sedentarization and Economic Diversification

Chapter 6. Consequences of the New Spatial Strategies



Part IV: Si’ire: Appropriating the City



Chapter 7. New Resources in the Urban Space

Chapter 8. Social Interaction in the City

Chapter 9. The Translocal Dimension of Urban Migration



Part V: Gassungol Wodaabe: The Translocal Network of the Ethnic Group



Chapter 10. The Translocal Community and Social Reproduction

Chapter 11. Cultural Change and the Reproduction of Difference



Conclusion



References

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Integration and Conflict Studies
• Zusatzinfo: 23 Illustrations
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• ISBN-10: 1-78920-636-7 / 1789206367
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78920-636-4 / 9781789206364
• Zustand: Neuware