Nostalgia for the Future : West Africa After the Cold War
Charles. Piot
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Chicago, IL : : University of Chicago Press, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (212 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One / States of Emergency; Two / The End of History; Three / Exit Strategy; Mise En Scène; Four / Charismatic Enchantments; Five / Arrested Development; Six / The Death of a Culture; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Charles Piot suggests that a new biopolitics after state sovereignty is remaking the face of one of the world's poorest regions.In a country where playing the U.S. Department of State's green card lottery is a national pastime and
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| ISBN | 0226669645. - 0226669653. - 9780226669649. - 9780226669656
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