Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War [Charles Piot]. Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, PentecostaliAuthor: Charles Piot. · Charles Piot, Nostalgia For the Future: West Africa After the Cold War “It would not be exaggerating too much to say that everyone in Togo is trying to leave–by playing the lottery, by traying to get into European or American universities, by arranging fictitious marriages with foreigners, by joining churches that might take them abroad, by hoping to be signed by a European soccer team, by. In a country where playing the U.S. Department of State’s green card lottery is a national pastime and the preponderance of cybercafés and Western Union branches signals a widespread desire to connect to the rest of the world, Nostalgia for the Future makes clear that the cultural and political terrain that underlies postcolonial theory has shifted. In order to map out this new terrain, Piot enters into critical /5(8).
Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War [Charles Piot]. Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostali. Winner, Best Book Award, African Politics Conference Group. Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Nostalgia for the Future West Africa after the Cold War. Charles Piot. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Charles Piot suggests that a new biopolitics after state sovereignty is remaking the face of one of the world's poorest regions. Nostalgia for the Future makes clear that the cultural and political terrain that underlies postcolonial.
Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War, Piot, Charles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. Kathryn Boswell. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Charles Piot suggests that Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Nostalgia for the future: West Africa after the Cold War. Responsibility Charles Piot. Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new.
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