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Bush Bound - Paolo Gaibazzi

Bush Bound

Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa

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Buch | Softcover
232 Seiten
2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-827-4 (ISBN)
CHF 27,85 inkl. MwSt
Many young men in a Gambian village, although eager to travel for money and experience, settle as farmers, family heads, businessmen, civic activists or, alternatively, as employed, demoted youth.
Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.

Paolo Gaibazzi is a Social Anthropologist and a Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. In addition to (im)mobility in the Gambia, he has published on West African post-slavery, Euro-African borders and West African Muslim traders in Angola.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Transliteration

Abbreviations



Introduction





From Ploughing the Sea to Navigating the Bush

Soninke Migration and the Young Men Who Stay Put

‘Sitting’: Creating and Inhabiting Immobility

The Onus of Rural Permanence

On Bush-bound Ethnography    

Overview of the Book

A Brief Note on The Gambia



Chapter 1. Peasants by Other Means:(Im)mobility and the Making of a Village Mooring





‘Sitting’ Sabi, Creating Movement, 1902 – ca.1945

The Farmer-trader

New Routes and Roots in the Post-war Period

Parting Sedentary and Migrant Livelihoods: 1970s – Present

Bush Troubles: the Decline of the Rural Economy

The Rise of International Labour Migration

Barriers to International Migration

Diasporization, Transnationality and Urban Homes

The Traveller, the ‘Sitter’ and the Urban ‘Sitter’



Chapter 2. Being-on-the-land: The Agri-culture of Migration





Of Bushmen and Moneymen

Earning Calloused Hands: The Embodiment of Rural Suffering

Cultivating an Agrarian Ethos

From Bush to Travel-bush

The Alienation of the Farmer?



Chapter 3. Looking for Money: Livelihood Trajectories in and out of Mobility





The Social Currency of Money

Locating the Bounty: Routes and Destinations

Two Hustlers

Navigating the Political Economy

Stranded in Circulation: From Spurious Travel to ‘Sitting’

Wind in the Sails: the Economy of Support



Chapter 4. Just Sitting: The Spectre of Bare Immobility





Ghetto Youth: (Em)placing Male Sociability

Stilled Bodies and Burdened Heads

The Nerves Syndrome

Waiting: The Stilled Time of Sitting

The Virtue of Patience: Temporal Fixes to Spatial Problems



Chapter 5. Hesitant Patriarchs: Becoming a Household Head





The Ka

Becoming a Kagume: Ascent to Power or Buck Passing?

In a Meal Bowl: Ensuring Subsistence in an Extraverted Domestic Economy

Around a Meal Bowl: Creating Conviviality and Male Authority

Governing Change: Cooperation, Conflict and Translocality in Household Formation



Chapter 6. Civic Leaders? Reviving the Age Groups, Recapturing Permanence





The Sappanu

Youth, in the Active Voice

The Sabi Youth Committee

Quiet Ceremonies: Legal Innovation and Socio-moral Reforms



Conclusion: Possibilities





If…

Placing Immobility in Migration

Trailing on



Glossary

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78533-827-7 / 1785338277
ISBN-13 978-1-78533-827-4 / 9781785338274
Zustand Neuware
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