Remoteness is power: disconnection as a relation in northern Chad

Autor: Julien Brachet, Judith Scheele
Přispěvatelé: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UMR Développement et Sociétés (DEVSOC), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Centre Norbert Elias (CNELIAS), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Saxer, M. (introd.), Anderson, R. (introd.)
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
internal civilisational frontiers
History
PERCEPTION DE L'ESPACE
Chad
Sociology and Political Science
Relation (database)
Tubu
0507 social and economic geography
ALTERITE
ETHNIE
050701 cultural studies
SYSTEME DE REPRESENTATIONS
Power (social and political)
RAPPORTS SOCIAUX
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
0601 history and archaeology
Economic geography
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Sahara
060101 anthropology
05 social sciences
ETUDE REGIONALE
ETHNOGRAPHIE
[SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography
06 humanities and the arts
HISTOIRE
[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology
ANTHROPOLOGIE SOCIALE
RELATIONS AUTOCHTONES ALLOCHTONES
ELOIGNEMENT
connectivity
Anthropology
ISOLEMENT
CONNECTIVITE
unknowability
Disconnection
Zdroj: Social Anthropology
Social Anthropology, 2019, 27, pp.156-171. ⟨10.1111/1469-8676.12646⟩
Social Anthropology, Wiley, 2019, 27 (2), pp.156-171. ⟨10.1111/1469-8676.12646⟩
ISSN: 1469-8676
0964-0282
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12646
Popis: International audience; Remoteness is power: disconnection as a relation in northern Chad 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. The voice of prophecy and other essays, 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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