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" Nostalgia for the future : "
Charles Piot.
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BL
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1026885
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b781255
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Piot, Charles.
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Nostalgia for the future : : West Africa after the Cold War /\ Charles Piot.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2010.
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1 online resource (x, 200 pages) :: illustrations
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0226669645
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: 0226669653
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: 0226669661
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: 9780226669649
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: 9780226669656
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: 9780226669663
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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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.
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Postcolonialism-- Africa, West.
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Postcolonialism-- Togo.
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HISTORY.
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Postcolonialism.
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Africa, West, History, 1960-
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Togo, History, 20th century.
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Togo, History, 21st century.
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Togo.
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West Africa.
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966.03/3
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DT476.5.P56 2010eb
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