Crisis in Chad: approaching the anthropological gap

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Title:	Crisis in Chad: approaching the anthropological gap
Editors:	Behrends, Andrea Heiß, Jan-Patrick Reyna, Stephen
Year:	2007
Periodical:	Sociologus (ISSN 0038-0377)
Volume:	57
Issue:	1
Pages:	1-131
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Berlin
Publisher:	Duncker & Humblot
Geographic terms:	Chad Cameroon Sudan
Subjects:	civil wars militias boundaries ethnic relations petroleum extraction
Abstract:	There is a lack of studies which focus on the living conditions, experiences, actions and strategies of the local population under the crisis conditions which beset Chad, a postcolonial State that is constantly on the verge of civil war. The articles in this special issue of 'Sociologus' explore this 'gap', focussing on local and regional actors, within the wider context of the political centre and the international scene. Contents: Crisis in Chad: approaching the anthropological gap (Andrea Behrends and Jan-Patrick Heiß); Waiting: the sorcery of modernity, transnational corporations, oil and terrorism in Chad (Stephen Reyna); Chad's vicinity and ethnic warfare in the Logone and Shari Division (Far North Cameroon) (Saïbou Issa); The multiple experiences of civil war in the Guéra region of Chad, 1965-1990 (Mirjam de Bruijn and Han van Dijk); The Darfur conflict and the Chad/Sudan border: regional context and local re-configurations (Andrea Behrends). [ASC Leiden abstract]