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Access to consumption, especially to objects that are challenging to obtain, is one of the features contributing to the successful spread of Pentecostalism in West Africa. Pentecostal pastors have become central public figures, ‘consumer stars,’ whose …

This paper is based on ethnographic work in organization that form part of what we term the Future Industry – such as think tanks, consultancies and governmental bodies – involved in the charting, description and analysis of geopolitical future sce…

Building on ethnographic research in Uganda, this paper discusses the mundane practice of rumour mongering and gossiping as anticipatory practices. Crude oil discovery in Uganda brought a small oil boom to the region endowed with the natural resource i…

This article explores the ways in which emergent police forces in conflict-affected Southern societies are shaped by cultural practices operating through social phenomena. It uses the record of the prototypical police forces found in the Somali cities …

This article analyzes the conceptions of anticipation and invention in the philosophies of Henri Bergson and Gilbert Simondon. In doing so, I analyze the questions how futures are anticipated and what role technologies play in the anticipation and inve…

In light of climate change, projected population growth, increasing conflicts over land and the question of food security, the Tanzanian government takes the respective visions of environmental futures as a cause and justification for particular measur…

This special issue brings together research from various disciplines to not only assess the current state of human rights, aid and development projects, and legitimate governing orders – often framed as factors of human security – but also to criticall…

In dealing with terrorism cases in Indonesia, the government must develop a strategy to eradicate terrorism, be it the ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or other terrorism ideologies through awareness of the importance of human rig…

Abstract After World War II, an estimated five million people were on the move in Czechoslovakia. Between 1954 and 1970, over 16,000 of them immigrated to Australia. This paper is part of a larger research project that provides an in-depth inquiry of t…

The Papuan People’s Assembly (Majelis Rakyat Papua-MRP) is a cultural representation of the Papuan people, which has an important role in protecting the rights of the Papuan people in the fields of customs and culture, empowering women, and religious h…

This paper analyzes the policies for migrant economies as part of broader social and labor market in Germany. It points out that the current fragmented and contradictory policy action can be identified as an outcome of former ambiguities and the delega…

In pursuit of post-Kemalism [Full text]
Emmanuel Szurek

À la poursuite du post-kémalisme [Full text]
Emmanuel Szurek

Post-Post-Kemalism: In Search of a New …

  Synopsis (English) :  When Ammiya was 13 years old, while in her 6th year at school, her parents sent her to marriage without her consent. As is customary in the Fulani and Muslim communities in Cameroon, no one tried to stop this marriage….

Synopsis (English): The Oumarou family lived a nomadic way of life before settling on the outskirts of N’gaoundéré, in northern Cameroon.  Change of Perspective observes how the family adapts to their new life by focusing …

Djebba’s cabaret is the portrait of a young brewer of bilbil (Traditional millet beer). Djebba is a young woman who has trained as a teacher but has been unable to find work for 05 years. To survive in a big city like Ngaoundéré (Cameroon), she brews a…

In a small village in Northern Cameroon;  lives a respected Mboum head of the family with his many children.  The latter practices the Yiga kaka or Cockrel diagnosis where he earns his living by making the diagnosis and curing the sick throug…

Jean Louis, a Central African living in the Cameroonian city of Ngaoundéré, is in search for a better life condition for him and his family. Ascanio is an Italian studying abroad, who is working to become a visual anthropologist. What will come out fro…

“I, a Ngwazala” is a cross-examination of the Ngwazla caste of Mafa society. It gives valuable insight into the lives of blacksmiths and how their culture is currently exposed to rapid transformation. This documentary presents Zayadai our key character…

Scrap is our future is a film made about teenage garbage collectors in Ngaoundéré, a city in northern Cameroon. This film tells an intimate story of Dembélé an orphan, which since the death of his mother in 2015, has become responsible for his own life…

Blangoua subdivision is the main Cameroonian window on Lake Chad. The Chari river which flows into the lake at the top of this town determines the border with Chad. The socio-cultural and economic proximity maintained by the population residing aroun…

Les attaques de Boko Haram ont poussées plusieurs habitants des zones frontalières du Cameroun et du Nigeria à désertés leurs villages natal. C’est ainsi que toute la famille D’Awoudou fut décimée pendant les attaques de Boko Haram à Kolofata en 2016. …