Space, Place and Identity : : Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century / / Florian Köhler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Köhler, Florian,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Integration and Conflict Studies ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)

Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages. The book analyses the consequences that the recent change entails for social group formation and collective identification, and how this impacts integration into wider society amid the structures of the modern nation state.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language and Transcriptions -- Introduction -- Part I Taariihi: Mobility and Group Formation in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 1 The Woɗaaɓe in Niger: Structure as Historical Process -- Chapter 2 A History of Migrations: Placemaking Processes in Diachronic Perspective -- Part II Duuniyaaru: Spaces of Social Interaction -- Chapter 3 Inter-ethnic Relations: The Balance of Integration and Conflict -- Chapter 4 A Meta-ethnic Social Space: The Continuum of Identity and Difference -- Part III Ladde: Transformations in the Pastoral Realm -- Chapter 5 From Nomadic Pastoralism to Sedentarization and Economic Diversification -- Chapter 6 Consequences of the New Spatial Strategies -- Part IV Si’ire: Appropriating the City -- Chapter 7 New Resources in the Urban Space -- Chapter 8 Social Interaction in the City -- Chapter 9 The Translocal Dimension of Urban Migration -- Part V Gassungol Woɗaaɓe: The Translocal Network of the Ethnic Group -- Chapter 10 The Translocal Community and Social Reproduction -- Chapter 11 Cultural Change and the Reproduction of Difference -- Conclusion -- References -- Index