Space, Place and Identity
Wo?aa?e of Niger in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2020
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-78920-636-4 (ISBN)
Description
Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wo?aa?e 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.
Reviews / Votes
"A highly welcome contribution to research on mobility in West Africa and more particularly in the West-African Sahel region in as far as it focusses on the complexity of mobility phenomena in a pastoral nomadic group." Elisabeth Boesen, Universite du Luxembourg"This is a wonderful and deeply detailed study of a group of Wodaabe in Niger. The author's descriptions of a sub-group of Gojanko'en and their various strategies of mobility, dispersion, and cohesion is absorbing and clearly based on solid fieldwork." Wendy Wilson-Fall, Oeschle Center for Global Education
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
23 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78920-636-4 (9781789206364)
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Florian Koehler 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.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Language and Transcriptions
Introduction
Part I: Taariihi - Mobility and Group Formation in Historical Perspective
Chapter 1. The Wo?aa?e 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 Wo?aa?e - 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
Acknowledgements
Note on Language and Transcriptions
Introduction
Part I: Taariihi - Mobility and Group Formation in Historical Perspective
Chapter 1. The Wo?aa?e 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 Wo?aa?e - 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