The Value of Disorder: Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara: 142 (African Studies, Series Number 142) - Hardcover

Julien Brachet , Judith Scheele

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108428339 ISBN 13: 9781108428330

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

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About the Authors

Julien Brachet is a Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of Migrations transsahariennes: Vers un désert cosmopolite et morcelé (2009).

Judith Scheele is Directrice d'études at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of Village Matters: Politics, Knowledge and Community in Kabylia (2009), and Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century (2012).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108428339
• ISBN 13: 9781108428330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 373