| Description |
1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
States of emergency -- The end of history -- Exit strategy -- Mise en scène -- Charismatic enchantments -- Arrested development -- The death of a culture |
| Summary |
Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Charles Piot suggests that a new biopolitics after state sovereignty is remaking the face of one of the world's poorest regions. In a country where playing the U.S. Department of State's green card lottery is a national pastime and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Postcolonialism -- Africa, West
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Postcolonialism -- Togo
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HISTORY.
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Postcolonialism
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, West -- History -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001706
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Togo -- History -- 20th century
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Togo -- History -- 21st century
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| Subject |
West Africa
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Togo
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009045175 |
| ISBN |
9780226669663 |
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0226669661 |
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9780226669649 |
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0226669645 |
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9780226669656 |
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0226669653 |
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