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...Adeline Masquelier © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Adeline Masquelier is an associate professor of anthropology at Tulane University. She is the author of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything:Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger (2001). Apter, Andrew...

.... Martin's Press, 135 -154. Stoller , Paul . 1989. Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession Among the Songhay of Niger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Stoller , Paul . 1992. The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press...

... or Environmental Migration? The Push Factors in Niger .” International Migration 49 , no. s1 : 95 – 124 . Ahmed Bayes . 2018 . “ Who Takes Responsibility for Climate Refugees? ” International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 10 , no. 1 : 5 – 26 . Altai Consulting...

... lines, as in the case of the boundaries separating the countries along the borders of the Sahara (Mali, Niger, Algeria) or the Kalahari desert. All these boundaries marked out geographical territories that were then associated with names, some...

...-elle publique? Traites, traitement, traite: Modes de la dette africaine. Politique africaine , no. 73 : 50 -67. Vidal, Laurent. 1990 . Rituels de possession dans le Sahel: Exemples peul et zarma du Niger . Paris:L'Harmattan. Weiner, Annette. 1976 . Women of value, men of renown: New...

...), and Alphadi (Niger), also took part in the FESPACO festivities. Alphadi empha- sizes bright colors and works mostly with Kinte cloth. Chris Seydou is a revelation for many people who are interested in African fashion. His rethematization...

...). Gane, Mike. Harmless Lovers? Gender, Theory & Personal Relationships. (New York: Routledge, 1993). Garber, Marjorie, Jann Matlock and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds. Media Specta- cles. (New York: Routledge, 1993). Gibbal, Jean-Marie. Genii of the River Niger. Trans. Beth G. Raps. (Chicago...

... in Transnational Technoculture 243 Jodi Dean Behind the Dispensary’s Prosperous Façade: Imagining the State in Rural Niger 267 Adeline Masquelier Chicago Geometry...

... in Transnational Technoculture 243 Jodi Dean Behind the Dispensary’s Prosperous Façade: Imagining the State in Rural Niger 267 Adeline Masquelier Chicago Geometry...

... 2016 ), the deadly jihadist group Boko Haram has killed thousands and displaced millions in northeast Nigeria and across the Lake Chad Basin (Cameroon, Niger, Chad), a region historically characterized by flows and fixities. A silent victim of the violent insurgency has been road-transport workers...

... of Minnesota Press. Gregoire , E. 1993. “Islam and Identity of Merchants in Maradi (Niger).” In L. Brenner, ed., Muslim Identity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa . Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 106 -115. Habermas , J. 1991. The Structural Transformation of the Public...

..., Plumpy’nut® requires no prepara- tion, no dilution in water prior to use, no cooking, and it can be consumed direct from the sachet. Because it can be used at home without any preparation, under the supervision of the mother or Figure 2 Child with ready- to- use food, Niger 2008. ©...

... his political career at any cost. For several years, Saro-Wiwa had been the most prominent spokesman of the Ogoni, a small Nigerian minority group whose territory in the Niger River delta happens to cover oil reserves developed by Royal/Dutch Shell...

...). In Africa itself, it has been shown that the city population, not people who live in the countryside, accounts for the most deforestation. In 1983 Philip O’Keefe saw “trains of camels haul firewood into Niamey, Niger’s capital” (1983: 115...

... and the possibilities of such a visual culture. And so to turn to Slow Violence , I found particularly compelling your analysis of the Niger delta and the Ogoni 8 and how a particular mode of writing becomes the engine of oppositional movements to spectacular as well as slow violence. Could you talk a bit more about...

... economic planning: Critical studies on the possibilities of socialism, edited by Friedrich von Hayek. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Watts, Michael, ed. 2008. The curse of the black gold: Fifty years of oil in the Niger Delta. With photographs by Ed Kashi. New York: Powerhouse...

... of the game. In an article on un(der)employed young men in Niger, Adeline Masquelier (2013 : 488) describes elaborate and time-stretching tea-making practices by youth as “a vehicle for the articulation of hope.” In contrast, the form of “time-management” (472) that card games enable is more about...

... Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction, and Opportunity . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Kashi Ed . 2008 . The Curse of the Black Gold: Fifty Years of Oil in the Niger Delta . Edited by Watts Michael . New York : powerHouse Books . Kelly...

... (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960) and Kant’s 1775 essay, “The Different Races,” are analyzed by Charles W. Mills in The Racial Contract (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997), 70. 13. See Martin Delany, Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (New York: T. Hamil- ton...

... with French military bases, extending from Senegal in the west, through Mali, Niger, Chad, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Côte d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso, to Djibouti in the east of the continent. The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle moves around the continent, or is based off the coast...