Architecture, pouvoir et dissidence au Cameroun

Malaquais, Dominique

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“…He earns the money to do this by selling coffee or cocoa crops, medium livestock (goats, pigs, and sheep), or through wage employment: shop‐keeping, truck‐ and taxi‐driving, or being employed by the civil service. Building and the maintenance of the compound's structures are also a man's duty (and a crucial one considering the strong identification of persons with their houses – Malaquais : 23; ; Warnier : 102‐3, 122). Despite the fact that building techniques are no longer learned by younger generations as assiduously as in the past, a man is still expected to build his wife's house/kitchen, thus providing her with a closed space in which she can cook properly (Feldman‐Savelsberg : 71, 74).…”

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“…In Bandjoun: ‘Water is the intersection between the human and the divine spheres’ (Malaquais : 95; for Bangwa, see Pradelles de Latour : 193; : 601).…”

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“…Therefore, by burying the navel cord in the mother's house, the rite ipso facto makes of the newborn a fully fledged citizen of the kingdom. The importance of the person's abdomen as a locus of birth rituals which attribute social identity and status in the Grassfields is acknowledged by many scholars (Feldman‐Savelsberg : 89; Malaquais : 24; : 196; Pradelles de Latour : 59‐60).…”

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‘Children are the food sent by God’: culinary imagery and the making of persons in the Cameroon Grassfields

Tsékénis

2015

Royal Anthropological Inst

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The article explores aspects of personhood as these emerge through rites of passage and culinary imagery in Batié, an eastern Grassfields polity in west Cameroon. Food appears as a gendered medium which, by being exchanged, cooked, and ingested by persons – and by collectives perceived as persons – has the power to transform others (persons and collectives) and make them act. Persons and collectives are revealed, at the different stages of their ceremonial journey, as the outcome of similar processes – exchange, cooking, and ingestion of food – occurring each time on different scales, and thus displaying fractal properties. Introducing a split between agent and (cause of) agency, the article finally suggests that agents’ successive (ritual) transformations are the result of their own actions as well as the actions of (‘individual’ or ‘collective’) others upon them.

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“…In Bandjoun: ‘Water is the intersection between the human and the divine spheres’ (Malaquais : 95; for Bangwa, see Pradelles de Latour : 193; : 601).…”

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‘Children are the food sent by God’: culinary imagery and the making of persons in the Cameroon Grassfields

Tsékénis

2015

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…In other words, the process by which young Guineans make claims on the government and in turn are governed does not take place in a vacuum. Rather, the possibilities and nature of these interactions are always mediated, located, opened up, and foreclosed by particular orderings of space and managements of time, including but not limited to transportation networks, technological advances, architecture, and the built environment (Larkin 2013; Von Schnitzler 2016; Malaquais 2002). Cultural infrastructures and spaces also rearrange the “apparatus of governmentality” in specific ways.…”

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From Street Corners to Social Media: The Changing Location of Youth Citizenship in Guinea

Bergère¹

2019

Afr. stud. rev.

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Abstract:This study explores social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter in particular, as emergent sites of youth citizenship in Guinea. These need to be understood within a longer history of youth citizenship, one that includes street corners and other informal mediations of youth politics. This counters dominant discourses both within the Guinean public sphere and in academic research that decry Guinean social media practices as lacking, or Guinean youth as frivolous or inconsequential in their online political engagements. Instead, young Guineans’ emergent digital practices need to be approached as productive political engagements. This contributes to debates about African youths by examining the role of digital technologies in shaping young Africans’ political horizons.

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“…Esta ambigüedad no solo es una realidad a la que se enfrentan los residentes urbanos sino que aparentemente la ocasionan también. En muchas ciudades, la misma disposición de los barrios está pensada para confundir y desarticular evaluaciones claras sobre lo que está ocurriendo en un contexto de incertidumbre que a menudo se vuelve abrumador (Malaquais 2002).…”

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Rehaciendo las ciudades africanas

Simone

2015

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L as ciudades africanas no funcionan, o por lo menos, sus caracterizaciones convencionales están repletas de descripciones que oscilan entre las luchas valientes, aunque a menudo desencaminadas de parte de los pobres para ganarse los medios mínimos de subsistencia, y las descripciones más insidiosas de cuerpos involucrados en una liminalidad casi constante, en decadencia o en con ictos étnicos y religiosos. Un punto de vista algo más generoso señala que las ciudades africanas son obras en construcción, al mismo tiempo extremadamente creativas y extremadamente estancadas. Ciudad tras ciudad, uno puede presenciar un pulso incesante producido por la intensa proximidad de cientos de actividades: cocinar, recitar, vender, cargar y descargar, pelear, orar, relajar, martillar y comprar. Todo esto yuxtapuesto en escenarios abarrotados, demasiado deteriorados y llenos de desperdicios, historia, energías * El texto que sigue corresponde a la traducción de la introducción "Remaking African Cities" y un fragmento de las conclusiones bajo el subtítulo "Reconnecting cities" que aparecen en el libro ya clásico de AbdouMaliq Simone, For the City yet to Come. Changing African Life in Four Cities (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004). Este fue su primer libro de gran impacto en la teoría social, urbana y postcolonial anglo-parlante. En él condensa investigaciones, observaciones y experimentaciones de casi quince años de trabajo en diversas ciudades de África. En esta primera traducción de la obra de AbdouMaliq Simone al castellano, buscamos introducir su novedosa perspectiva a un público más amplio. Pensamos que su atención analítica a las circulaciones y articulaciones que constituyen la ciudad nos puede ayudar a reimaginar las potencialidades de nuestras ciudades, al enfocarse en las relaciones inestables entre personas y el cambiante tejido social así como en la infraestructura urbana que requiere atención crítica. ** No solo las ciudades del sur global, sino las poblaciones, los Estados y las economías de regiones históricamente periféricas nos exigen construir marcos analíticos que reconozcan sus vivencias y realidades. A esta tarea se dedica la obra de AbdouMaliq Simone quien -como señala -pasó parte de su infancia en Freetown, Sierra Leone y ha trabajado en Ghana, Sudan, Sudáfrica y Costa de Mar l "en calidad de activista, de consultor de alguna ONG o del gobierno local, como profesor, como hermano musulmán, como agente de desarrollo y/o como investigador". Sus acercamientos a las ciudades de África buscan llevarnos más allá de la sistematización necesaria para la construcción de políticas de gobernanza y gestión de la ciudad. Dirige, más bien, nuestra mirada a la manera en que políticas, capitales y relaciones institucionalizadas de poder aterrizan en espacios locales del Sur, en cuerpos y en subjetividades postcoloniales. De ahí que su escritura sea compleja, a veces enredada y serpenteante, pues no intenta de nir una comprensión coherente de la ciudad, sino trazar elmente los movimientos relacionales, las contradi...

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Architecture, pouvoir et dissidence au Cameroun

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‘Children are the food sent by God’: culinary imagery and the making of persons in the Cameroon Grassfields

‘Children are the food sent by God’: culinary imagery and the making of persons in the Cameroon Grassfields

From Street Corners to Social Media: The Changing Location of Youth Citizenship in Guinea

Rehaciendo las ciudades africanas

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