The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel

Herausgeber: Villalón, Leonardo A

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Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook provides a multidimensional and interdisciplinary assessment of the West African Sahel region in all of its complexity.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 832
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 180mm x 52mm
• Gewicht: 1672g
• ISBN-13: 9780198816959
• ISBN-10: 0198816952
• Artikelnr.: 61859271

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

* 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