Islands of Integration or Islands of Marginality? Dynamics of Belonging and Otherisation in the Sahelian Chad
Ethnos, cilt.89, sa.4, ss.679-697, 2024 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 89 Sayı: 4
- Basım Tarihi: 2024
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/00141844.2022.2057562
- Dergi Adı: Ethnos
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, FRANCIS, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, Anthropological Literature, ATLA Religion Database, Educational research abstracts (ERA), Humanities Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Political Science Complete, Public Affairs Index, Religion and Philosophy Collection, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.679-697
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Autochthony, ethnicity, post-Colonialism, post-Slavery, race
- Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Histories of othering through race, ethnicity, or other forms of belonging follow context-specific trajectories. Building on nine months’ fieldwork in Chad, this article engages with discussions about othering in postcolonial Africa. The article moves from the description of micro-divisions in the Guéra province, in the Chadian Sahel, to discuss theoretical paradigms connecting African discourses on race and ethnicity to precolonial cleavages or colonial divisions, and theories that connect emerging ideas of autochthony with neoliberal reforms of governance. It shows that both precolonial cleavages and colonial shaping of identities were contradictory and remain important because of their use by French colonial and Chad postcolonial governments to divide and rule local people. This has fostered forms of political competition based on othering further reinforced by neoliberal reforms of local governance. The increasing dynamics of othering are not therefore specific to Guéra’s cleavages but connected to divisive forms of governance.