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Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 05-2003
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-15-2-211
Abstract: Janet Roitman is chargée de recherche at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique. Her recent publications include“New Sovereigns? Regulatory Authority in the Chad Basin,” inIntervention and Transnationalism in Africa, edited by Thomas Callahgy, Ronald Kassimir, and Robert Latham (2001), and “The Garrison-Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin,” inGlobal Anthropology: Technology, Governmentality, Ethics, edited by Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier (forthcoming).
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 2017
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-1994
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-11-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3777508
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2000
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 12-2022
Abstract: The essays collected in this special issue of Social Anthropology ask questions about thxe status of claims to urgency. Such claims are a way of indexing a state of affairs they qualify the ongoing stream of phenomena that we observe and take part in. They are, therefore, and as noted by the various contributions to this special issue, not self-evident. Such claims constitute the significance of events. The question for an anthropology of claims to urgency is: How and to what extent do such claims stabilise as truth claims? Or not.
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-1990
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X00054781
Abstract: There is evidence of a new trend in recent scholarship on African political economy: an effort to tip the scale towards the latter end of the so-called state-society balance. This nascent movement portends to serve as a corrective to past academic work devoted to defining and delineating the form and nature of the African state. The statist literature has traditionally formed two c s, one based on liberal, neo-classical theory, and the other informed by the neo-Marxist dependencia model. No matter what the approach, in these studies the state is the central locus of macro-economic and political processes: as the centre of resource extraction and distribution, and the determinant of the nature of national politics, the state is fixated upon as the source of, and/or solution to, the economic status of African societies.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date: 31-12-2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-2010-011
Abstract: Over the past years, France has been rocked not only by violent demonstrations in the banlieues (city outskirts) but also by raging debates regarding the place of “postcolonial studies” in the French archive and in current scholarship. The dispute over postcolonial studies in this European venue is symptomatic of disagreement about the status of French colonial history and the category of race in the construction of contemporary national narratives. The varied and conflicting understandings of both postcolonial studies and the nature of empires entail fierce disagreement over the status of race and immigration in France (if not Europe) today. This introductory essay reviews the arguments presented in the main articles, discussion papers, and Doxa essays included in this special issue. The author enters the debate by arguing against the notion that postcolonial studies can be summarized as a theoretical form. Because postcolonial studies has produced compelling accounts of the epistemological bases for the production of difference and historical forms of regulation, its intellectual force lies in the constant postulation of alternative narratives and counter-histories in a relentless effort to displace the fault lines of power-knowledge. However, to what extent can this contemporary scholarship rid itself of the categories of nineteenth-century academic disciplines? By considering the third languages of the postcolonial world, one can address this predicament of thinking and reasoning in the language of the educator, the statesman, the colonizer, the slaver, the exterminator. In the end, though, an epistemological rupture would entail more than differential languages it requires that significance no longer be located in historical inscription.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 09-2021
DOI: 10.1086/716846
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2003
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-12-2022
Publisher: PERSEE Program
Date: 1998
Abstract: Abstract This text examines the meanings and material effects of the garrison-entrepot in the Lake Chad Basin. As an historical institution, the garrison-entrepot is a site where practices and significations which are both military and commercial are concretized. It takes part in the history of conquest and violent modes of violent accumulation (slaving, razzia, raiding) known to the region. Today, the normalization of violence associated with certain manners of accumulations is manifest. Furthermore, the political economy of the Chad Basin is such that the garrison-entrepot has become a site of redistribution and fiscal authority. It contributes to the intensification and expansion of regional commercial circuits which are the bases for the exercice of regulatory authority (rents, prestations, charges) and the control of labor (guards, couriers, smugglers, intermediares). The later maintain ambiguous relationships to the physical frontiers of the nation-state as will as those of national regulation. Doubtless, the garrison-entrepot is a historical form of power that completes with the nation-state. But the fiscal relationships that emerge out of this phenomenon of the frontier are essential to the quest for new forms of economic power in the region they are often exploited and even encouraged by extant regimes. Indeed, this counter-fiscality is atthe heartof the redefinition of "economic citizenship" in the region today.
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 09-2022
DOI: 10.1332/204378921X16376650676641
Abstract: We now live in perpetual crisis: ‘an age of crisis’, ‘times of crisis’, ‘chronic crisis’ and so on. These expressions seem to merely describe a state of affairs, but they are foundational claims. The concept of crisis qualifies a world: it determines what gets to count as an event and what gets inscribed as history in the ongoing stream of competing phenomena. Crisis is a naturalising category that subsumes specificity. It has colonised the life-worlds of communities across the globe and become foundational to knowledge production despite its Christian-European genealogy. Analyses that attempt to gain insights by elucidating discourses of crisis, or how people use the term ‘crisis’, and the experience of crisis, or how people narrate crisis, disregard the constitutive questions that make crisis a primary means of qualifying the observable world. Asking those constitutive questions has political import because they raise the long-standing problem of representation – of the Other, of alterity, of language and of experience. The problem of representation has been a central topic of epistemology and the principal subject of critique in the social sciences and humanities. It should not be ignored, and it compels us to ask: what becomes of the concept of crisis when we problematise practices of representation?
Publisher: Edinburgh University Library
Date: 17-12-2020
Abstract: History in Financial Times sheds light on the historiography of contemporary finance. But there is a tension in the book that is inescapable: between the production of crisis historiography, on the one hand, and the practice of the concept of crisis, on the other. There is, in other words, a barely articulated distinction between crisis as a “metahistorical force” and crisis as a “peculiar, naturalist” category.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 05-1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-2007
Abstract: This article engages with Jane Guyer's assessment (in Marginal Gains , 2004) of contemporary forms of capitalism from outside the bounds of two opposing logics: the universalization of capitalist arrangements versus the specificity of local forms of economic arrangement. Guyer's rejection of a priori definitions of economic categories leads to fertile analysis of measures and mediations as poly-semic modes of valuation. The author asks: what is the theory that would account for or accommodate this polysemy? Corollary questions of epistemology arise regarding distinctions between local conventions and formal procedures and about the criteria that establish such distinctions. Conceding that we attest to the efficacy of economic concepts through practice, the author questions whether these concepts are institutionalized through “experience.” Such concepts (e.g., equivalence) are not merely “economic” in nature their genealogies disclose the extent to which their efficacy derives from their placement in many domains of life, as artifacts of a general epistemology.
Publisher: OpenEdition
Date: 09-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3777502
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 20-11-2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Library
Date: 22-03-2023
DOI: 10.2218/FINSOC.8089
Abstract: Platform economies are depicted as the foundation for a new era of economic production. This transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and algorithmic operations into the heart of economic and financial practices. However, different assumptions are made about the effects of digital platforms depending on geographical location. While digital platforms are approached as inherent to processes of financialization globally, they are reduced to processes of financial inclusion when referencing the ‘Global South’. Analyses of financialization as a one-way-vector – Global North to Global South – overlook the variability, the limits, and responses to financialization. In contrast, a focus on market devices illustrates the specificities of value creation. An ex le of this is ‘the float’, a form of financial value generated by mobile telecommunication operators, mobile money issuers, and commercial banks in Africa. Through this lens, we see instances of both value subjugation and autonomization, evidence that the fault lines of value production generated by ambiguous market devices are obscured by the Global North/Global South frame.
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2001
Location: United States of America
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