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Handbook provides a multidimensional and interdisciplinary assessment of the West African Sahel region in all of its complexity.
List of contents
- Editor's Introduction
- Framing the Sahel: Spaces, Challenges, Encounters
- Section I: The Sahel as Region
- 1: Olivier Walther and Denis Retaillé: Mapping the Sahelian Space
- 2: Gregory Mann: French Colonialism and the Making of the Modern Sahel
- 3: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan: The Construction of States and Societies in the Sahel
- 4: Augustin Loada: Civil Society and Political Order in the Sahel
- Section II: National Trajectories
- 5: Marie Brossier: Senegal: A Success Story and a Patrimonial Democracy
- 6: Boubacar N'Diaye: Mauritania: Exceptionalism and Vulnerability
- 7: Bruce Whitehouse: Mali: Collapse and Instability
- 8: Ernest Harsch: Burkina Faso: Beyond Autocracy, New Roads Open
- 9: Lisa Mueller: Niger: Precarious Stability
- 10: Ketil Fred Hansen: Chad: Realpolitik and Aspirational Deprivation
- Section III: The Environment and the Challenge of Climate Change
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 11: Suzanne Cotillon, Gray Tappen, and Chris Reij: Land Use Change and Climate-Smart Agriculture in the Sahel
- 12: Sarah McKune: The Challenge of Food and Nutritional Security
- 13: Alisha Graves, Nouhou Abdoul Moumouni, and Malcom Potts: Demography and Health in the Context of Climate Change
- 14: Tor A. Benjaminsen: Climate Change and Human Conflict in the Sahel
- 15: Marjatta Eilittä: Drivers of Growth and Decline in Sahelian Livestock Sectors
- Section IV: The Challenges of Development
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 16: Ahmadou Aly Mbaye and Fatou Guèye: Section editor's Introduction
- 17: Renata Serra: Agricultural Policies and Development in the Sahel
- 18: Isaline Bergamaschi: The Political Economy of Aid in the Sahel
- 19: Giorgio Blundo: Corruption and the State in the Sahel
- Section V: The Challenge of Governing
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 20: Mamadou Bodian and Leonardo A. Villalón: The Democratic Struggle in the Sahel
- 21: Daniel Eizenga: Political Parties and Elite Resilience in Sahelian Politics
- 22: Sebastian Elischer: Militaries in Sahelian Politics
- 23: Cristina Barrios: Security Provision and Counterterrorism in the Sahel
- 24: Roland Marchal: French Interventions in the Sahel
- Section VI: The Intellectual Landscape
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 25: Felwine Sarr: Towards a History of Ideas in the Sahel
- 26: Rahmane Idrissa: Yesterday Meets Tomorrow in Sahelian Intellectual Currents
- 27: Alioune Sow: The Literary History of the Sahel
- Section VII: A Religious Landscape in Flux
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 28: Rüdiger Seesemann: Islamic Intellectual Traditions in the Sahel
- 29: Benjamin Soares: Islam and Muslim Societies in the Contemporary Sahel
- 30: Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim: Jihadist Insurgencies in the Sahel
- 31: Ousseina Alidou: Muslim Women's Social Movements in the Sahel
- 32: Alexander Thurston: Negotiating Secularism in the Sahel
- Section VIII: The Changing Social Mosaic
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 33: Cédric Jourde: Social Stratification in the Sahel
- 34: Fiona Mc Laughlin: The Linguistic Ecology of the Sahel
- 35: Wendy Wilson-Fall: Pastoralist Societies in the Sahel
- 36: Leonardo A. Villalón and Mamadou Bodian: Education, Citizenship, and National Identity in the Sahel
- Section IX: On the Move: Urbanization, Migration, Transnationalism
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 37: Florence Boyer and David Lessault: Urbanization and the Dynamics of Change in the Sahel
- 38: Sylvie Bredeloup: Sahelian Migrations within Africa
- 39: Harouna Mounkaila: Trans-Saharan Migration through and from the Sahel
- 40: Abdoulaye Kane: Sahelian Transnational Networks and Diasporas
About the author
Leonardo A. Villalón is Dean of the International Center and Professor of Political Science and African Studies at the University of Florida, where he also coordinates the Sahel Research Group. He is a specialist on the countries of the African Sahel (Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Chad), in particular the role of Islam in democratization, education, and political stability. He has published numerous works on the region. He is past president of the West African Research Association, and currently chair of the board of directors of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).
Summary
This Handbook provides a multidimensional and interdisciplinary assessment of the West African Sahel region in all of its complexity.
