Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Florian Köhler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Imprint: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781789206364
ISBN 10: 1789206367
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 20 March 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A highly welcome contribution to research on mobility in West Africa and more particularly in the West-African Sahel region in as far as it focusses on the complexity of mobility phenomena in a pastoral nomadic group. Elisabeth Boesen, Universite du Luxembourg This is a wonderful and deeply detailed study of a group of Wodaabe in Niger. The author's descriptions of a sub-group of Gojanko'en and their various strategies of mobility, dispersion, and cohesion is absorbing and clearly based on solid fieldwork. Wendy Wilson-Fall, Oeschle Center for Global Education
A highly welcome contribution to research on mobility in West Africa and more particularly in the West-African Sahel region in as far as it focusses on the complexity of mobility phenomena in a pastoral nomadic group. * Elisabeth Boesen, Universite du Luxembourg This is a wonderful and deeply detailed study of a group of Wodaabe in Niger. The author's descriptions of a sub-group of Gojanko'en and their various strategies of mobility, dispersion, and cohesion is absorbing and clearly based on solid fieldwork. * Wendy Wilson-Fall, Oeschle Center for Global Education
...a substantial addition to the body of literature that examines ongoing transformations in the lifestyles of contemporary nomadic Fulbe societies. Its central thesis, which stresses the translocal networking ability of nomadic peoples, sheds valuable light on the adaptive strategies required to cope with increasing global resource scarcity. * Nomadic Peoples A highly welcome contribution to research on mobility in West Africa and more particularly in the West-African Sahel region in as far as it focusses on the complexity of mobility phenomena in a pastoral nomadic group. * Elisabeth Boesen, Universite du Luxembourg This is a wonderful and deeply detailed study of a group of Wodaabe in Niger. The author's descriptions of a sub-group of Gojanko'en and their various strategies of mobility, dispersion, and cohesion is absorbing and clearly based on solid fieldwork. * Wendy Wilson-Fall, Oeschle Center for Global Education
Author Information
Florian Köhler is currently a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. He is also trained as a practitioner in peace-building and conflict-resolution and worked for the German Development Service (DED) in Haiti and for the Civil Peace Service (ZFD) in Niger, Benin and Burkina Faso.
