The Value of Disorder
Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara
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The Value of Disorder
Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara
About this book
Despite being central to the development of Saharan regional connectivity, northern Chad has been closed to researchers since the late 1960s and thus remains virtually unknown to scholarship. Based on long-term fieldwork, The Value of Disorder is an original and in-depth account of the area and its Tubu majority inhabitants. Julien Brachet and Judith Scheele examine trans-border connectivity and trade; civil war and rebellion; wealth creation and dispersal; labour and gender relations; and aspirations to moral autonomy in northern Chad from an internal point of view - a point of view that in turn participates in a dynamic process of regional interdependence. Vividly ethnographic, the book gives precedence to local categories of value, while asking broader questions about the nature of non-state regional political organisation. Questions that inform current political developments in the Sahara more widely, and have the potential to challenge key concepts in Saharan studies and the social sciences.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Photographs
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 A Never-Ending Conquest: Settlement and the Making of a Saharan Town
- 2 Fifty Shades of Khaki: Armed Conflict and Other Entanglements
- 3 Trouble in the Palm Grove: Labour, Status, Ownership
- 4 Tricks of Trade: Production, Protection, and Predation
- 5 Great Ploys and Small Expectations: Accumulation and Dispersal in a Half-World
- 6 The State Encompassed: Everyday Disorder, the Aesthetics of Violence, and the Political Imagination
- Conclusion
- References
- Index