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This book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area.
In 2014 Boko Haram expanded into the Lake Chad region, prompting a counter-insurgency response, and exacerbating pre-existing social and ecological challenges. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, this book investigates how people within the liminal space of this key border region respond to and navigate the unpredictability which typifies their day-to-day lives. Building up a picture of individual and community experiences of crisis, the book gradually demonstrates the complex interactions between economic circuits, political orders, socio-religious processes, and labour practices which operate in the region.
This book will be of interest to researchers across African studies, security studies, political science, and border studies.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION PART I - PATTERNS OF ACCUMULATION AND DISPOSSESSION IN THE SAHEL 1. LINES: Rethinking Power Networks, Labor and Resources in the Sahel 2. SPACE, SUBJECTS, GATEWAYS: Forging Techniques of Power in the Sahel PART II - LIVING THROUGH CRISES BY LAKE CHAD 3. RAIDERS OF THE LOST WEALTH: Accumulation, Dispersal, Dispossession 4. LE DÉRAPAGE: The Boko Haram Crisis by Lake Chad 5. NAVIGATING THE MESHWORK: Map-Reading an (Armed) Landscape PART III - NEGOTIATING LIVELIHOODS AT THE FRONTIER 6. FEAR AND FLOATING, I: Networks, Capital, Power 7. FEAR AND FLOATING, II: Agency, Labor, (Crushed) Utopia POSTSCRIPT
About the author
Alessio Iocchi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway, and Research Fellow at the Department of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean at University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy.
Summary
The book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area. It will be of interest to researchers across African studies, security studies, and political science.
