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Behind the Dispensary's Prosperous Façade: Imagining the State in Rural Niger

Adeline Masquelier
Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): 267–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-267
Published: 01 May 2001
...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...
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X Marks the Spot: The Ambiguities of African Trading in the Commerce of the Black Public Sphere

Rosemary J. Coombe, Paul Stoller
Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 249–274.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-1-249
Published: 01 January 1994
.... 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...
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Climate of Anxiety in the Sahel: Emigration in Xenophobic Times

Jesse Ribot, Papa Faye, Matthew D. Turner
Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 45–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816293
Published: 01 January 2020
... of totalizing global “Islamic” terrorism narratives ( Benjaminsen and Ba 2019 ; Dowd and Raleigh 2013 ; Ibrahim 2017 ; Watts 2013) . References Afifi Tamer . 2011 . “ Economic or Environmental Migration? The Push Factors in Niger .” International Migration 49 , no. s1 : 95 – 124...
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At the Edge of the World: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa

Achille Mbembe
Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 259–284.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-259
Published: 01 January 2000
... 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...
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Unsanctioned Wealth; or, The Productivity of Debt in Northern Cameroon

Janet Roitman
Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 211–237.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-2-211
Published: 01 May 2003
...-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...
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On Tracking World Cinema: African Cinema at Film Festivals

Manthia Diawara
Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 385–396.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-385
Published: 01 May 1994
...), 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...
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Recent Arrivals

Public Culture (1994) 6 (3): 607–612.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-3-607
Published: 01 September 1994
...). 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...
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Editor's Note

Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): vii–ix.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-vii
Published: 01 May 2001
... in Transnational Technoculture 243 Jodi Dean Behind the Dispensary’s Prosperous Façade: Imagining the State in Rural Niger 267 Adeline Masquelier Chicago Geometry...
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Call for Contributions

Public Culture (2001) 13 (2): x–xii.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-2-x
Published: 01 May 2001
... in Transnational Technoculture 243 Jodi Dean Behind the Dispensary’s Prosperous Façade: Imagining the State in Rural Niger 267 Adeline Masquelier Chicago Geometry...
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The Checkpoint State: Extortion, Discontents, and the Pursuit of Survival

Daniel E. Agbiboa
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 123–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435488
Published: 01 January 2022
... Niger whose emptiness reminds rural inhabitants of the withdrawal of the state (Masquelier 2001 : 268). In short, the state is recast here as a mobile rather than moored entity, one that is “capable of mirroring the mobility of subjects in the regulation of them” (Gill, Caletrio, and Mason 2014 : 6...
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Islamic Modernities? Citizenship, Civil Society and Islamism in a Nigerian City

Michael Watts
Public Culture (1996) 8 (2): 251–289.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8-2-251
Published: 01 May 1996
... 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...
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Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods

Peter Redfield
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 157–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443592
Published: 01 January 2012
..., 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. ©...
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Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy : The Politics of “Rotten English”

Michael North
Public Culture (2001) 13 (1): 97–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-13-1-97
Published: 01 January 2001
... 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...
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Cidades Esfumaçadas : Energy and the Rural-Urban Connection in Mozambique

Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 261–271.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2020593
Published: 01 March 2013
...). 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...
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Rob Nixon

Robert P. Marzec, Allison Carruth
Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 281–300.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2392066
Published: 01 May 2014
... both the constraints 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...
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Next Practices: Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Public Goods at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Julia Elyachar
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 109–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443583
Published: 01 January 2012
... . In Collectivist economic planning: Critical studies on the possibilities of socialism , edited by von Hayek Friedrich . 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 Kashi Ed . New...
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Life amidst Rubble: Migrant Mental Health and the Management of Subjectivity in Urban China

Lisa Richaud, Ash Amin
Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 77–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816305
Published: 01 January 2020
... of Young Men in Niger .” Africa 83 , no. 3 : 470 – 91 . McFarlane Colin Silver Jonathan . 2017 . “ Navigating the City: Dialectics of Everyday Urbanism .” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 42 , no. 3 : 458 – 71 . Navaro-Yashin Yael . 2009 . “ Affective...
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Aeolian Extractivism and Community Wind in Southern Mexico

Cymene Howe, Dominic Boyer
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 215–235.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427427
Published: 01 May 2016
... Gold: Fifty Years of Oil in the Niger Delta . Edited by Watts Michael . New York : powerHouse Books . Kelly John H. . 2010 . “ Indigenous Territoriality at the End of the Social Property Era in Mexico .” Journal of Latin American Geography 9 , no. 2 : 161 – 81 . Knight...
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Catastrophic Art

Fazil Moradi
Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 243–264.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9584750
Published: 01 May 2022
... in Chad in 2014. The promise—circulation and the temporary or permanent return of African heritage —is tied up 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...
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Afro-Modernity: Temporality, Politics, and the African Diaspora

Michael Hanchard
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 245–268.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-245
Published: 01 January 1999
... (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...
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