Space, Place and Identity

Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-636-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

Reihe: Integration and Conflict Studies

Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Köhler, Florian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Language and Transcriptions

Introduction

Part I: Taariihi: Mobility and Group Formation in Historical Perspective

Chapter 1. The Wodaabe 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 Wodaabe: 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

Über Autor(innen)

Köhler, Florian
Florian Köhler 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.

Florian Köhler 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.