ISBN:
978-1-107-01654-5
,
978-1-107-60252-6 /Pbk.
ISSN:
0065-406X
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XVI, 281 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Ausgabe:
First published
Serie:
African Studies (Cambridge) 129
Schlagwort(e):
Westafrika Afrika, Subsahara
;
Sudan
;
Sahel
;
Mali
;
Migration
;
Muslime
;
Imperialismus
;
Nichtregierungsorganisation
;
Dekolonisation
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Beziehungen, transnationale
;
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen
;
Politik
;
Geschichte
Kurzfassung:
This book looks beyond the familiar history of former empires and new nation-states to consider newly transnational communities of solidarity and aid, social science and activism. Shortly after independence from France in 1960, the people living along the Sahel - a long, thin stretch of land bordering the Sahara - became the subjects of human rights campaigns and humanitarian interventions. Just when its states were strongest and most ambitious, the postcolonial West African Sahel became fertile terrain for the production of novel forms of governmental rationality realized through NGOs. The roots of this 'nongovernmentality' lay partly in Europe and North America, but it flowered, paradoxically, in the Sahel. This book is unique in that it questions not only how West African states exercised their new sovereignty but also how and why NGOs - ranging from CARE and Amnesty International to black internationalists - began to assume elements of sovereignty during a period in which it was so highly valued. (Verlagsangaben)
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 - Knowing the Postcolony -- 2 - A New Republic -- Part II -- Introduction to Part II: Sahelian Migrations and State Thought -- 3 - "French" Muslims in Sudan -- 4 - Well-Known Strangers: How West Africans Became Foreigners in Postimperial France -- Part III -- Introduction to Part III: Saving the Sahel -- 5 - Governing Famine -- 6 - Human Rights and Saharan Prisons -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index
Anmerkung:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 249-273
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