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Butter, I.C.
Bruijn, M.E. de
Mous, M.
Behrends, A. (Committee member)
Seli, D. (Committee member)
Sijpesteijn, P. (Committee member)
Navigations of a globalizing Chad: Nomadic Walad Djifir grounded in connectivity
Leiden University
en
20202020-07-02
Doctoral Thesis
info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
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Globalizing Africa
Chad
Family networks
Nomadic networks
Sedentarism and mobility
Insecurity and flexibility
Modern nomads
Belonging in crisis
Remittances
Monetary transfers
<p>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. Based in central Chad, the Walad Djifir are part of extensive socio-economic networks, ranging from very local cattle markets, to Western Unions in Libya, and selling merchandise in the Central African Republic. The ferīkh (nomadic camp) is where all of the Walad Djifir’s networks meet, and often also begin— providing the departure point of this research. This analytical and methodological approach embraces the intricate relationships between sedentary and mobility, the mundane and the extreme, flexibility and expectations to explore 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 ferīkh provides answers. It is precisely the mundane elements of daily life which anchor disruption.<br></p>
History and International Relations
lucris-id: 333472276
https://hdl.handle.net/1887/123198https://hdl.handle.net/1887/license:5application/pdf