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'I Did Not Wash My Hand for Days': The Stuplime Return of Revolutionary Speech in the Republic of Guinea
In: The Cambridge journal of anthropology, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 78-95
ISSN: 2047-7716
This article focuses on the reception of revolutionary oratory in what was once known as The People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea. Sékou Touré, Guinea's first president, captivated the nation with fiery, unscripted speeches lasting four, five, or six hours. Guinean audiences were enthralled by his sublime revolutionary rhetoric. In a 2008 coup, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara declared himself president, attempting to recreate the fervour of Guinea's revolutionary days. Guinean citizens initially provided a willing revolutionary audience, though Camara's oratory fell far short of Touré's example. The article explores how the effects of shock and boredom that Ngai describes as 'stuplimity' (2005) emerged in reaction to Camara's performances. Stuplimity was a halfway point between Guineans' initial 'revolutionary' suspension of disbelief regarding the junta's intentions and their subsequent rejection and anger, which led to the junta's collapse less than a year after it took power.
Life during wartime: aspirational kinship and the management of insecurity
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 735-752
ISSN: 1467-9655
This article explores the ways that the institution of the avunculate has been used as an idiom for negotiating forced displacement, dispossession, and insecurity in the forested region where modern‐day Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d'Ivoire converge. The essay analyses the ways that the rights and responsibilities that inhere in the MB‐ZS relationship are both invoked 'aspirationally' by those with no prior link of kinship and parried by those who should in principle be bound by them. This degree of play suggests that the avunculate in this region is best understood as one of several idioms used to legitimate claims made on others, often in times of uncertainty and instability. Rather than treat this relationship as an always‐already existing social institution, the article suggests that it is also the product of a historical experience of persistent warfare, displacement, and flight.
Guinea 2011
In: Africa yearbook: politics, economy and society south of the Sahara, Band 8, S. 107-114
ISSN: 1871-2525
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Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 345-355
ISSN: 1541-0986
Popular Development Economics—An Anthropologist among the Mandarins
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 345-355
ISSN: 1541-0986
In 1997, I found myself newly arrived at Oxford University. I was taking a detour from my path to do research in West Africa thanks to a fellowship that funded a year of ancillary training before my fieldwork. Though studying anthropology, I was at St. Antony's College, where Paul Collier's Center for the Study of African Economies is located, and was in the same entering cohort as Collier's now-famous student Dambisa Moyo (assuming I would not be able to remember her first name, she offered, "it sounds kind of like 'pizza'").
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about it
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 345-355
ISSN: 1541-0986
Guinea 2010
In: Africa yearbook: politics, economy and society south of the Sahara, Band 7, S. 109-116
ISSN: 1871-2525
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Popular Development Economics???An Anthropologist among the Mandarins
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 345-356
ISSN: 1537-5927
Guinea 2009
In: Africa yearbook: politics, economy and society south of the Sahara, Band 6, S. 107-115
ISSN: 1871-2525
Der Artikel gibt einen Überblick über Innenpolitik, Außenpolitik und die sozioökonomische Entwicklung in Guinea im Jahr 2009
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Janvier 2007 : Sékou Touré est mort
In: La politique africaine, Heft 107, S. 125-145
ISSN: 0244-7827
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LE DOSSIER: POLITIQUES DU CORPS: e conjoncture; janvier 2007 - Sékoutouré est mort
In: La politique africaine, Heft 107, S. 125-146
ISSN: 0244-7827
Rebuilding failed states: Liberia
In: Development in practice, Band 15, Heft 6, S. 760-766
ISSN: 0961-4524
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