PDF-(DOWNLOAD)-Neoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa (Chicago

In Neoliberal Frontiers Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the daytoday practices of the officials of Ghanas Customs Service exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty From the revealing vantage point of the Customs office Chalfin discovers a fascinating inversion of our assumptions about neoliberal transformation bureaucrats and local functionaries government offices checkpoints and registries are typically held to be the targets of reform but Chalfin finds that these figures and sites of authority act as the engine for changes in state sovereignty Ghana has served as a model of reform for the neoliberal establishment making it an ideal site for Chalfin to explore why the restructuring of a state on the global periphery portends shifts that occur in all corners of the world At once a foray into international political economy politics and political anthropology Neoliberal Frontiers is an innovative interdisciplinary leap forward for ethnographic writing as well as an eloquent addition to the literature on postcolonial Africa. Dr. Abdullahi Y. Shehu. Director General, GIABA. Presented to the Commissioners of the West Africa Commission on Drugs (WACD), Accra, Ghana. 29 April 2013. Presentation Overview. Regional Context – the facts. Dr. . Mamarame. . Seck. Department of African and Afro-American . Studies & . Mam. . Harr. Gaye. An Introduction. Countries (17). Chad. Niger. Nigeria. Mauritania. Mali. Senegal. Guinea. Sierra Leone. Stephen J Ball. Institute of Education, . University of London. Neoliberal education. Much used often with little precision. A “ principle of intelligibility and a principle of decipherment of social relations” (Foucault 2010 p. 243). . Establishment in . 1967. . Faculty of Social Sciences. DEPARTMENT OF WEST ASIAN STUDIES WELCOMES THE NAAC TEAM. Department of West Asian Studies (Profile). The Department of West Asian Studies (CWAS) was established in 1967 as an independent, interdisciplinary, area study centre at the Aligarh Muslim University. The status of the centre on the recommendation of the UGC Expert Committee Report, was subsequently converted into the Department of Studies in 1996. The geographic area under study includes Iran, the fertile crescent, Turkey, Arabian peninsula and North African region. Besides multi-disciplinary research, the Department is involved in teaching, training and evaluation. The Department's faculty, represents a variety of disciplines, such as Geography, Political Science, Economics, History, Sociology and Arabic. The activities of the Department include undertaking of in-depth research studies, organization of conferences, seminars, symposia, workshops and group discussions on varied aspects of the Area.. The area now covered by the Sahara desert is cooler and wetter than it is now, although at this date it is getting dryer. Farming peoples are slowly spreading along the north African coast, and down the fertile strip of land along the river Nile is already home to a dense population of . International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany. GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Stu Dr Edward George . Head . of Group . Research & . Country Head, Ecobank . UK. Paris, 21 June 2017. 2. Disruptive technology is spreading across Africa. Mobile phone & Internet usage is growing too. West African Civilizations. 3 Empires emerge by dominating trade across the Sahara. - . Empire of Ghana. - Empire of Mali. - Empire of Songhai . Objectives. Understand why gold and salt were important in early Africa.. History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond: Chapter 12. A Long Unwritten Past. People have lived in . West Africa. for 100s of thousands of years.. Due to only passing information . orally. for much of this time, we do not have written records.. CHICAGOOHAREAIRPORTIRVING PARK RD4000 NDIVERSEY AVE2800 NPETERSON AVE6000 NTOUHY AVE7200 NORIOLE AVE7600 WHARLEM AVE7200 WOAK PARK AVE6800 WCHICAGO AVE800 NCERMAK RD2200 S103RD ST10300 SWESTERN AVE240 This engagingly written and deeply ethnographic work examines the economic and political factors that led to the Greek debt crisis, including financial pressures from international lenders, unregulated spending by the Greek government, predatory bank loans, and rising unemployment.Indebted looks closely at the cultural dimensions of the crisis: how middle class urbanites experienced the shock of a global fiscal collapse, managed societal instability, and worked to sustain their families in the face of structural pressures, local instabilities, and moral imperatives. AuthorKathryn A. Kozaitis based her analysis on ethnographic research in Thessaloniki, the second largest city and co-capital of Greece, during the summer of 2009, 2011-2012, and ethnographic updates in 2013-2019. She places particular emphasis on the lived experience of Thessalonikians in what emerged asa culture of crisis--collective, patterned behaviors, thoughts, and emotions characteristic of a people in sociocultural transformation--in an uncertain present marked by past realities and future imaginaries. The book synthesizes hundreds of crisis narratives, depicting Thessalonikians\' responsesto their country\'s political disaster and downward mobility through the themes of loss and displacement blame and accountability reconfigurations of kinship roles and responsibilities emotional and intellectual awakenings and emergent indicators of survival, continuity, and renewal throughalternative praxis.Indebted is a volume in the series ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION: CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY, which examines the experiences of individual communities in our contemporary world. Each volume offers a brief and engaging exploration of a particular issue arising from globalization and itscultural, political, and economic effects on certain peoples or groups. Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative, open-ended, embodied, affective, and experimental. The authors treat ethnography as a methodology that includes the whole process of ethnography, from being fully present while engaging with the experience to analyzing representing, and communicating the results, with the hope of capturing different kinds of knowledge and experiencesThe book is structured around various methodologies sensing, walking, writing, performing, and recording and includes innovative exercises that allow both seasoned and aspiring ethnographers to develop a practice that can deepen and extend ethnographic inquiry. In popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues, a jabaaru immigr? (a migrant\'s wife) may be depicted as an opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a na?ve dupe. Her migrant husband also faces multiple representations as profligate womanizer, conquering hero, heartless enslaver, and exploited workhorse. These depictions point to fluctuating understandings of gender, status, and power in Senegalese society and reflect an acute uneasiness within this coastal West African nation that has seen an exodus in the past thirty-five years, as more men and women migrate out of Senegal in hope of a better financial future.Marriage Without Borders is a multi-sited study of Senegalese migration and marriage that showcases contemporary changes in kinship practices across the globe engendered by the neoliberal demand for mobility and flexibility. Based on ten years of ethnographic research in both Europe and Senegal, the book examines a particular social outcome of economic globalization: transnational marriages between Senegalese migrant men living in Europe and women at home in Senegal. These marriages have grown exponentially among the Senegalese, as economic and social possibilities within the country have steadily declined. More and more, building successful social lives within Senegal seems to require reaching outside the country, through either migration or marriage to a migrant. New kinds of affective connection, and disconnection, arise as Senegalese men and women reshape existing conceptions of spousal responsibility, filial duty, Islamic piety, and familial care.Dinah Hannaford connects these Senegalese transnational marriages to the broader pattern of flexible kinship arrangements emerging across the global south, arguing that neoliberal globalization and its imperative for mobility extend deep into the family and the heart and stretch relationships across borders. Global epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection: . New estimates of age‐specific antibody to HCV seroprevalence. Mohd. . Hanafiah. , K. . et al.57 (4) . Hepatology. , 2013. HCV Epidemiology in West Africa.