Space, Place and Identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century (Integration and Conflict Studies, 21)

"Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages. The book analyses the consequences that the recent change entails for social group formation and collective identification, and how this impacts integration into wider society amid the structures of the modern nation state."-- Provided by publisher Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Language and Transcriptions Introduction Part I Taariihi: Mobility and Group Formation in Historical Perspective Chapter 1 The Woɗaaɓe in Niger: Structure as Historical Process Chapter 2 A History of Migrations: Placemaking Processes in Diachronic Perspective Part II Duuniyaaru: Spaces of Social Interaction Chapter 3 Inter-ethnic Relations: The Balance of Integration and Conflict Chapter 4 A Meta-ethnic Social Space: The Continuum of Identity and Difference Part III Ladde: Transformations in the Pastoral Realm Chapter 5 From Nomadic Pastoralism to Sedentarization and Economic Diversification Chapter 6 Consequences of the New Spatial Strategies Part IV Si’ire: Appropriating the City Chapter 7 New Resources in the Urban Space Chapter 8 Social Interaction in the City Chapter 9 The Translocal Dimension of Urban Migration Part V Gassungol Woɗaaɓe: The Translocal Network of the Ethnic Group Chapter 10 The Translocal Community and Social Reproduction Chapter 11 Cultural Change and the Reproduction of Difference Conclusion References Index