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پدید آورنده
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رده
DT476.5 .P56 2010eb
DT476
.
5
.
P56
2010eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0226669645
(Number (ISBN
0226669653
(Number (ISBN
0226669661
(Number (ISBN
9780226669649
(Number (ISBN
9780226669656
(Number (ISBN
9780226669663
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b781255
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Nostalgia for the future :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
West Africa after the Cold War /
First Statement of Responsibility
Charles Piot.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (x, 200 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
States of emergency -- The end of history -- Exit strategy -- Mise en scène -- Charismatic enchantments -- Arrested development -- The death of a culture.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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. 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. In a country where playing the U.S. Department of State's green card lottery is a national pastime and.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
MIL
Stock Number
267920
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Nostalgia for the future.
International Standard Book Number
9780226669649
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Postcolonialism-- Africa, West.
Postcolonialism-- Togo.
HISTORY.
Postcolonialism.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Africa, West, History, 1960-
Togo, History, 20th century.
Togo, History, 21st century.
Togo.
West Africa.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
HIS-- 001050
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
966
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03/3
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
DT476
.
5
Book number
.
P56
2010eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Piot, Charles.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201206200154.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
pn
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Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
