Nomadic Connectivity
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Nomadic Connectivity

An Ethnography of Walad Djifir Navigating Insecurities in Central Africa

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Nomadic Connectivity

An Ethnography of Walad Djifir Navigating Insecurities in Central Africa

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A focus on the everyday has produced this ethnography, which hopes to give a nuanced voice to an extended family of semi-sedentary nomads, living at the centre of a country and region known for its political turmoil, ecological insecurities, and socio-economic hardship. The everyday of the Chadian Walad Djifir is one in which sedentarity and mobility are approached as two entwined parts of a whole, and where economic and geographical boundaries do not necessarily form constrictions. The fer?kh (nomadic camp) is where all of the Walad Djifir's networks meet, and often also begin— a physical place embodying various networks and connections, which span time and geographical space. This analytical and methodological approach gives insight in how regional trends can be understood in light of the Walad Djifir's daily lives. Over time, the Walad Djifir have developed ways of coping and dealing with insecurities, interacting with infrastructural, technological, and socio-political developments in specific ways. In exploring how such insecurities and crises become anchored into the everyday, the fer?kh provides answers. It is precisely the mundane elements of daily life which anchor disruption.

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Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Year
2023
ISBN
9783110714807
Edition
1
Topic
Economía
Subtopic
Historia económica

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. On transcription choices and translation
  6. Maps
  7. Family trees
  8. Ferīkh individuals
  9. Chapter 1 Researching nomadic connectivity
  10. Chapter 2 Contextualizing itineraries
  11. Chapter 3 Brothers in arms
  12. Chapter 4 The walk of life
  13. Chapter 5 New mobilities and old mistrusts
  14. Chapter 6 Family and belonging in times of crisis
  15. Chapter 7 The everyday wilderness
  16. Glossary of Chadian Arabic and French terms
  17. Index