Etudes africaines de geographie par le bas : African studies in geography from below / sous la direction de/edited by Michel Ben Arrous & Lazare Ki-Zerbo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ben Arrous, Michel.

Ki-Zerbo, Lazare.

Series:

Codesria book series.

Serie de livres du CODESRIA

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Human geography--Africa.

Human geography.

Africa--Geography.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

African studies in geography from below

Place of Publication:

Dakar : Conseil pour le developpement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA), c2009.

Language Note:

French

Summary:

The doctrine of international relations (inter-state, indeed), territorial ideologies, the logic of autochthony and its ramifications, ethnic cleansing, are all hinged at different levels upon the same pseudo-fact: to every society a closed and exclusive territory demarcated by fixed and linear borders. This way of thinking, totally foreign to African societies for a long time, has generated today more contradictions than it can ever solve. The authors of this book make a clear distinction between territory formation ""from the top"" as being a deliberate political project, and its formation "

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Avant-propos; I. Identités en mouvement; 1. La géographie par le bas : introduction à une aventure collective; 2. Identités ethniques et territorialisation en Casamance; 3. The Future of the Nation-State Project in Africa: the Case of Nigeria; 4. Remapping Kiswahili: A Political Geography of Language, Identity and Africanity; II. L'illusion du découpage; 5. The Politics of Frozen State Borders in Postcolonial Africa; 6. Whose Self-Determination? Conflicting Nationalisms and the Collapse of Somalia

III. Rencontres urbaines et migratoires7. Refugees at Home? Coping with Somalia Conflict in Nairobi, Kenya; 8. BFCI : un laboratoire politique à la croisée des chemins; 9. West African Labour Migrants and National Security in Nigeria; 10. Les associations urbaines et le pouvoir local dans les quartiers populaires; IV. Conclusion; 11. La géographie par le bas, et après ?; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612901256

9781282901254

1282901257

9782869783867

2869783868

9782869783423

2869783426

9782869784284

2869784287

OCLC:

741350862