Slam poetry is today a recognized artistic discipline for youth in Chad. The culture comprises the poets and their poems, united in slam associations, festivals, and workshops. The slam scene in Chad has produced well-recognized slammers in Africa
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Slam Poetry in Chad
A Space of Belonging in an Environment of Violence and Repression
Mirjam de Bruijn
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 242–257 (16 total)
Mirjam de Bruijn
It is after all clear that fear has definitively changed camps and that the regime of Idriss Déby experiences much more fear than the Android youth that we are. 1 This quotation is from a 16 February 2016 post by “Fils-de-Maina” (a Chadian internet
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 259–274 (16 total)
Creative Encounters
African Trade and Chinese Oil Production in Western Chad
Nikolaus Schareika
geographically close but do not qualify as part of oil’s technological zone. Taking into account these considerations, I contend that it ought to be quite difficult for Chadians to connect to and thereby profit from the oil projects that are set up in their
The Devil’s Money
A Multi-level Approach to Acceleration and Turbulence in Oil-Producing Southern Chad
Andrea Behrends and Remadji Hoinathy
This article takes a multi-level approach to analyzing the effects of oil production in southern Chad. A multi-level analysis combines the international level of policy making in regard to oil production in Chad with the national level of land
Fighting for oil when there is no oil yet
The Darfur-Chad border
Andrea Behrends
The area around the border of Sudan and Chad, where Darfur lies, has been an unimportant and unknown backwater throughout history. Today, however, Darfur is all over the international press. Everybody knows about the grim war there. There is no oil currently in production in Darfur. However, there is oil in the south of neighboring Chad and in Southern Sudan, and there might be oil in Darfur. This article considers a case of fighting for oil when there is no oil yet. It takes into account the role of local actors doing the fighting, that is, the army, rebels, and militias; national actors such as the Sudanese and Chadian governments; and international actors, such as multinational oil companies, the United States, China, and the United Nations. It explains how oil can have disintegrative consequences even when it is still only a rumor about a future possibility.
Remoteness is power
Disconnection as a relation in northern Chad
Julien Brachet and Judith Scheele
Remoteness is as much about a position in topological as in topographical space. Remote areas might look inaccessible from the outside, but, for Ardener (Ardener, E. 1989. , M. Chapman (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell), feel open and vulnerable from the inside, as their connectivity with the outside world is never fully controlled by locals. Drawing on material gathered in northern Chad, we argue that this lack of conceptual reciprocity can also lead to the opposite: a trope of permanent aggression, based on the local endorsement of external negative stereotypes. From the outside, the ‘locals’ are seen to be archetypical raiders, thieves and uncouth. From the inside, people concur in these descriptions to a surprising degree, insisting on their disorder, unpredictability and violence. This endorsement of alterity grants northern Chad a particular place in Saharan history, geography and ethnography.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 156–171 (15 total)
Freedom's Right
The Social Foundations of Democratic Life
Chad Kautzer
Axel Honneth. Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life
The Traveling Model That Would Not Travel
Oil, Empire, and Patrimonialism in Contemporary Chad
Stephen P. Reyna
This article concerns a type of change involving implementation of 'traveling models'—procedural cultural plans of how to do some-thing done somewhere elsewhere. Specifically, it concerns the World Bank's traveling model of oil revenue distribution in support of Chadian development. It finds that this model is failing and that dystopia is developing in its stead. A contrasting explanation, which examines the contradictions and consequences of Chadian patrimonialism and US imperialism, is proposed to account for this state of affairs. Finally, the analysis is shown to have implications for conceptualizing patrimonialism and planning development.
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2007
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 78–102 (25 total)
Introduction
Understanding Experiences and Decisions in Situations of Enduring Hardship in Africa
Mirjam de Bruijn and Jonna Both
Ethnographic Encounters In the Guéra region in central Chad, people experienced a long period of civil war and ecological problems when rebels occupied the countryside for various times from 1965 to 1990. This concurred with long
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 186–198 (13 total)
An Author Meets His Critics
Around Manuel A. Vásquez’s “More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion”
Manuel A. Vásquez, Abby Day, Lionel Obadia, David Chidester, and Chad E. Seales
Manuel Vásquez begins his book by describing university courses that frustrate his students by being text-based and divorced from real life. He rightly concludes that analyzing sacred texts does not alone explain lived religion and complex issues such as globalization, transnationalism, and hybrid identities. He is writing from a Religious Studies perspective that, as he says, sometimes suffers from an overly theological bias. Moves within the discipline to abandon ‘religion’ for something as equally diverse and difficult to pin down as ‘faith’ do not, he argues, take us any further, particularly because religion really matters to many people and therefore cannot be dismissed just because we scholars find it problematic. To adopt an approach that explores how religion is understood and lived by the people who practice it is, I agree, the most important task for people studying religion. If this serves as a wake-up call for people who still study religion as something, in Vásquez’s words, of angels rather than of people, then the book has done a great job.
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 185–202 (18 total)