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Producing Stateness
Jan Beek’s book explores everyday police work in an African country and analyses how police officers, despite prevailing stereotypes about failed states and African police, produce stateness. Drawing on highly readable ethnographic descriptions, the book shows that Ghanaian police practices often involve the exchange of money (bribes), the use of violence and the influence of politicians. However, such informal practices allow police officers to deal with the inconsistent necessities and the social context of their work. Ultimately, Ghanaian police officers are also inspired by a bureaucratic ethos and their practices are guided by it. Stateness, the book argues, is a quality of organizations, gradually emerging out of such everyday encounters. Producing Stateness allows a close look at the realities of police work in Africa and provides surprising insights into the rationalities of policing and state bureaucracies everywhere.
An Uncertain Future - Anticipating Oil in Uganda
The discovery of oil in Uganda in 2006 ushered in an oil-age era with new prospects of unforeseen riches. However, after an initial exploration boom developments stalled. Unlike other countries with major oil discoveries, Uganda has been slow in developing its oil. In fact, over ten years after the first discoveries, there is still no oil. During the time of the research for this book between 2012 and 2015, Uganda’s oil had not yet fully materialised but was becoming. The overarching characteristic of this research project was waiting for the big changes to come: a waiting characterised by indeterminacy. There is a timeline but every year it gets expanded and in 2018 having oil still seems...
Pastoralism and Socio-technological Transformations in Northern Benin
Pastoralists throughout Africa face increasing pressures. In Benin, governmental development policies and programmes in crop farming are changing power relations between herders and farmers to favour the latter. How are the Fulani pastoralists responding to these threats to their existence? Georges Djohy explores the dynamics in local use of natural resources and in inter-ethnic relations resulting from development interventions. He combines the approaches of science and technology studies – looking at the co-construction of society and technology – and political ecology – looking at the power relations shaping the dynamics of economic, environmental and social change – so as to thro...
"Wir schützen unseren Park"
Pendjari National Park in northern Benin is not only a tourist attraction and an area for the protection of biodiversity, it is also a showcase for participatory management approaches. Since its foundation as an animal protection area in 1954 under French colonial rule, the park has been object of often conflictual but productive negotiations between different groups of neighboring dwellers, such as peasants, herdsmen and hunters, as well as the park administration itself. During 19 months of fieldwork, ethnographic data on conflicts and negotiation processes were collected. Their detailed analyses show how different groups of actors construct the park as a socially relevant entity. Data fro...
Regards scientifiques sur l'Afrique depuis les Indépendances
Depuis l’avènement des Indépendances, les recherches consacrées au continent africain se sont progressivement libérées des orientations initiales imposées par l’idéologie coloniale, grâce aux travaux d’hommes de science objectifs et courageux, de chercheurs de pays non colonisateurs (américains, russes, suédois ou encore japonais) et de chercheurs africains. Dans ce mouvement, de nouveaux paradigmes sont nés, tandis que d’autres ont été remis en question, comme l’ethnicité et l’anthropologie biologique ou physique. Cet ouvrage rend compte des mutations intervenues dans la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales au cours des cinquante dernières années, des dynam...
Geister in Kambodscha
In this dissertation, Paul Christensen examines the significant roles played by spirits in Cambodian society. In particular, he focuses on the handling of the traumatic past, the religious identification of Cambodians, the political empowerment of elites through spiritual legitimation strategies, and the living ritual practice of spirit mediums in Cambodia. Based on 13 months of ethnographic field research and an innovative methodology utilizing actor-network theory, the research provides an emic understanding of these religious phenomena in terms of a ‘(re-)enchanted modernity’ that is manifesting itself across Southeast Asia. The dissertation makes a seminal contribution to the scholarly understanding of spirits. It is compelling not only because of the novel connections provided by its methodology; its ethnographic descriptions of social topics such as power, existence, religion, healing, love or mourning provide new insights into religious life in a rapidly changing country.
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Mobilität und Zeitgestaltung
In den vergangenen Jahren ist die Anzahl internationaler Studierender und Wissenschaftler*innen in Deutschland stetig angestiegen. Ausgehend von ihrer ethnologischen Forschung in der Universitätsstadt Göttingen geht Antonie Fuhse der Frage nach, wie junge Wissenschaftler*innen aus Indien ihre multiplen sozialen Verortungen während ihres Studiums beziehungsweise ihrer Promotion aushandelten. Sie setzt sich besonders damit auseinander, welche Rolle Mobilität in der Aushandlung normativer Vorstellungen von der Gestaltung des Lebensverlaufs und der Zukunft spielt. In diesem Buch wird das Konzept des ‚Regimes der akademischen Mobilität‘ entwickelt und in der Analyse angewandt, um die vie...
