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The Value of Disorder [electronic resource] : Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: African StudiesPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)ISBN:
  • 110863169X
  • 9781108631693
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Value of Disorder : Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian SaharaDDC classification:
  • 305.89653096743 23
LOC classification:
  • DT546.442
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Photographs; Maps; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Sahara and Its Double; The Lacuna; The Bad Reputation; Alterity Endorsed; Obstacles as Social Facts; 1 A Never-Ending Conquest: Settlement and the Making of a Saharan Town; Regional Disconnections; The San�usiyya; The French Colonial Conquest; The Enemy Who Came on Foot; Colonial State-Building; Boom and Bust; Imperial Twilight; Conclusion; 2 Fifty Shades of Khaki: Armed Conflict and Other Entanglements; The Outbreak of War
Ongoing Connections'The Enemy of My Enemy is Your Friend'; Suspicions and Departures; Looking Like a State; Plus �ca change . . .; Conclusion; 3 Trouble in the Palm Grove: Labour, Status, Ownership; The 2006 Conflict; The Right Kind of History; Labour and Irrigated Agriculture; Property and Possession; Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay; Conclusion; 4 Tricks of Trade: Production, Protection, and Predation; Fortunes of War: The First Generation of Faya Traders; The One Exception; Local Production and Decentralised Trade; Libya: Wealth at Your Fingertips
Rent over Risk: Garages and Other Forms of 'Protection'Rent-Seeking through Authority and Force; Conclusion; 5 Great Ploys and Small Expectations: Accumulation and Dispersal in a Half-World; The Glory of Giving; Raiding and Theft; Kinship and Marriage; The Ties That Bind; Faya as a Half-World; Conclusion; 6 The State Encompassed: Everyday Disorder, the Aesthetics of Violence, and the Political Imagination; Tubu 'Anarchy'; In Praise of Disorder; A Good Fight; Men in Arms; The State Encompassed; Conclusion; Conclusion; Elite Cultures; The Lacuna Revisited; Times, Things, Others; References
Summary: Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.
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Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Photographs; Maps; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Sahara and Its Double; The Lacuna; The Bad Reputation; Alterity Endorsed; Obstacles as Social Facts; 1 A Never-Ending Conquest: Settlement and the Making of a Saharan Town; Regional Disconnections; The San�usiyya; The French Colonial Conquest; The Enemy Who Came on Foot; Colonial State-Building; Boom and Bust; Imperial Twilight; Conclusion; 2 Fifty Shades of Khaki: Armed Conflict and Other Entanglements; The Outbreak of War

Ongoing Connections'The Enemy of My Enemy is Your Friend'; Suspicions and Departures; Looking Like a State; Plus �ca change . . .; Conclusion; 3 Trouble in the Palm Grove: Labour, Status, Ownership; The 2006 Conflict; The Right Kind of History; Labour and Irrigated Agriculture; Property and Possession; Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay; Conclusion; 4 Tricks of Trade: Production, Protection, and Predation; Fortunes of War: The First Generation of Faya Traders; The One Exception; Local Production and Decentralised Trade; Libya: Wealth at Your Fingertips

Rent over Risk: Garages and Other Forms of 'Protection'Rent-Seeking through Authority and Force; Conclusion; 5 Great Ploys and Small Expectations: Accumulation and Dispersal in a Half-World; The Glory of Giving; Raiding and Theft; Kinship and Marriage; The Ties That Bind; Faya as a Half-World; Conclusion; 6 The State Encompassed: Everyday Disorder, the Aesthetics of Violence, and the Political Imagination; Tubu 'Anarchy'; In Praise of Disorder; A Good Fight; Men in Arms; The State Encompassed; Conclusion; Conclusion; Elite Cultures; The Lacuna Revisited; Times, Things, Others; References

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Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

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