Autochthony: Local or global?

Studies in Global Social History

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 207-228

  Geschiere, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 80053920646     PISSN: 18746705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004181168.i-452.58     Document Type: Article

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1. This text contains a few sections-partly re-written-of a text I published with Bambi Ceuppens in Annual Review of Anthropology 34(2005), 385-409
2. See also Peter Geschiere, Perils of Belonging: Autochtony, Citizenship and Exclusion in Africa and Europe (Chicago, 2009).
3. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimension of Globalization (Minneapolis, 1996).
4. See the title and the introduction of Birgit Meyer and Peter Geschiere, eds., Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure (Oxford, 1999).
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8. Karel Arnaut, Performing Displacements and Rephrasing Attachments: Ethnographic Explorations of Space, Mobility in Art, Ritual, Media and Politics (Ph. D. thesis, Ghent Univ., 2004);
9. Peter Geschiere, Francis Nyamnjoh, "Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging", Public Culture 12, 2(2000), 423-425;
10. Jean-François Bayart and Peter Geschiere, eds., 'J'étais là avant: Problématiques de l'autochtonie", Critique internationale 10(2001), 126-195;
11. Antoine Socpa, Démocratisation et autochtonie au Cameroun: Variations régionales divergentes (Münster, 2003).
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29. and idem, The Memory of Trade: Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island (Durham, 2000).
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36. Peter Geschiere and Joseph Gugler, eds., "The Politics of Primary Patriotism", Africa 68, 3(1998), 309-319;
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41. Cf. Jean-François Bayart, Stephen Ellis and Béatrice Hibou, The Criminalization of the State in Africa (Oxford, 1999).
42. Geschiere and Nyamnjoh, "Capitalism and Autochtony";
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44. Francis Nyamnjoh and Michael Rowlands, "Elite Associations and the Politics of Belonging in Cameroon", Africa 68, 3(1998), 320-337.
45. See Geschiere and Nyamjoh, "Capitalism and Autochtony"
46. and Piet Konings, "Mobility and Exclusion: Conflicts between Autochtons and Allochthons during Political Liberalization in Cameroon", in Mobile Africa: Changing Patterns of Movement in Africa and Beyond, eds. Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk and Dick Foeken (Leiden, 2001), pp. 169-194 on the "Assocation of the Elites of the Tenth Province", an imagined province (Cameroon has only nine provinces), proclaimed by elites who feel excluded from belonging anywhere else.
47. Konings, "Mobility and Exclusion. "
48. See also Piet Konings and Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Negotiating an Anglophone Identity: A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon (Leiden, 2003).
49. Geschiere and Nyamnjoh, "Capitalism and Autochtony."
50. Interview with Samuel Eboua in Trbu-Une 5(1995), 14.
51. Geschiere and Nyamnjoh, "Capitalism and Autochtony."
52. See also Geschiere, "Funerals and Belonging"
53. and Monga, "Cercueils, orgies et sublimation" on the proliferation of 'neo-traditional' funeral rituals in this context.
54. Socpa, Démocratisation et autochtonie.
55. See Janet Roitman, Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa (Princeton, 2004).
56. Peter Geschiere, "Ecology, Belonging and Xenophobia."
57. See Karel, Performing Displacements, p. 208;
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61. Arnaut, Performing Displacements.
62. Chauveau, "Question foncière", p. 107.
63. Dozon, "La Côte d'Ivoire entre démocratie, nationalisme et ethnonationalisme."
64. Chauveau, "Question foncière", p. 114.
65. Arnaut, Performing Displacements, p. 216;
66. Dozon, "La Côte d'Ivoire au péril de l'ivoirité", p. 16.
67. Chauveau, "Question foncière";
68. Dozon, "La Côte d'Ivoire entre démocratie, nationalisme et ethnonationalisme";
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73. Arnaut, Performing Displacements, ch. 3.
74. Cellule universitaire de recherche et de diffusion des idées et actions du président Konan Bédié.
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76. Arnaut, Performing Displacements, ch. 3 and 4, for a discussion of similar texts.
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78. and idem "La Côte d'Ivoire entre démocratie, nationalisme et ethnonationalisme."
79. Arnaut, Performing Displacements, p. 240.
80. Jackson, War Making, p. 247.
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82. Liisa Malkki, Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania (Chicago, 1996), pp. 63ff.
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84. See Martijn Wienia, The Stranger Owns the Land but the Land is for Us: The Politics of a Religious Landscape in Nanun, N. Ghana (Leiden, 2003).
85. Comaroff and Comaroff, "Naturing the Nation. "
86. Cf. on Ghanaian immigrants in Botswana also Rijk van Dijk, "Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the Stranger's Beauty in Botswana", Africa 73, 4(2003), 560-583.
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89. See Joseph C. Miller, 'Way of Death': Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade 1730-1893 (Madison, 1988);
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92. (cf. Birgit Meyer, Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana (Edinburgh, 1999))
93. Loraux, Né de la terre, pp. 95-100.