Konstanze N''Guessan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 120219 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Konstanze N''Guessan |
| NOMBRES | Konstanze |
| APELLIDO | N''Guessan |
| FIRMA | GUESSAN K N |
| AFILIACIONES | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7924-2728 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Making beautiful babies
According to the notion of "parental determinism," parents are paradoxically imagined as both powerful actors and in need of expert guidance and supervision. Subsequent research in different world regions problematizes the links between parental competence, child development, and societal ills. However, the question of what "good parenting" actually consists of is highly contingent. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Ivorian parents and in a c…
Parenting as contested practice between experts, audiences, and selves
Interrogating what constitutes "good parenting" captures and reflects multiple debates within and across different societies, milieus, and power constellations. In this Special Issue, Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves, we bring together seven articles and a commentary that tackle how people move through the labyrinth of diverse knowledge formations and when they reproduce themselves as "good" via their own considerations of parentin…
Doing Being a Father
This article looks at fatherhood and fathering as performative practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class fathers in urban Côte d'Ivoire, it explores intimate fathering as both an exceptional practice and a reinterpretation of hegemonic masculinities. Intimate fathering offers an alternative way of living for Ivorian men, who use it to renegotiate and reevaluate gender roles and relations between nuclear and extended families a…
Nostalgie de l’avenir
Cet article tente de retracer la généalogie de la mémoire prospective et des avenirs nostalgiques au sein du nationalisme ivoirien. L’unité d’analyse choisie pour en périodiser les différentes phases est la célébration de la fête nationale, qui suscite souvent de vifs débats sur ce qui devrait être commémoré ou oublié, et sur la manière dont le passé est lié au présent et à l’avenir de la nation. L’article examine la présentation de la future nat…
Embodying the nation
National-day parades constitute a common format of embodying the nation. Composed of numerous distinct bodies of persons with individual characteristics (being short or tall) and multilayered societal roles (being a nurse, a father etc.), parades primarily evoke an image of sameness, while they also display differences. Focusing on the preparation of the Burkinabè national-day parades, this paper explores practices of disciplining bodies and maki…
Performing the national territory
The nation is a relatively abstract imagined community that is visualised through a variety of symbols as well as communicative and performative practices. In this paper, we explore how the national territory, one of the foundations of the nation‐state, is performed on national‐day celebrations and brings the nation into being. Drawing on ethnographic research on national days in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, we show how the state's inte…
"Jeder hat seinen Platz". Differenzpolitik und Raumordnung in afrikanischen Nationalfeiern
In diesem Aufsatz untersuchen wir, wie in afrikanischen Nationalfeiern in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire und Ghana durch Raum- und Sitzordnungen die Nation inszeniert und aufgeführt wird. Nation ist eine vorgestellte Gemeinschaft, die beansprucht, andere soziale Zugehörigkeiten wie die zu ethnischen oder religiösen Gemeinschaften zu stratifizieren und andere Differenzen wie etwa Alter oder Geschlecht zu Binnendifferenzen herabzustufen. Nation hat ab…
Côte d’Ivoire
In August 2010, Côte d’Ivoire commemorated fifty years of independence. Local Pentecostal churches likewise celebrated the jubilee, marking the liberation of slaves after seven times seven years of servitude as promised in Leviticus 25: 8–10. This reading of independence was closely linked to the incumbent president’s political project of refondation based on a premillennial understanding of the interrelatedness of past, present and future. In th…
Fathers and Children of Ivorian Independence
I look at the image of a generation of youth as the vanguard force of an ongoing struggle for independence and a new nation on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Ivorian independence. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of Reinhart Koselleck, I explore the making of national time as layered temporality, with generations not succeeding each other but rather coexisting. My analysis of expressions and performances of 'doing being youth' …
The bureaucratic making of national culture in North-Western Ghana
In this article I explore the making of national culture through bureaucratic routines in the Centre for National Culture in Wa, North-Western Ghana. I focus on an aspect of bureaucracy that is usually left aside: the productivity and creativity of bureaucratic routines. State, nation and culture are not fixed entities, but have to be constantly produced through processes of negotiation and meaning-making and through the continual reproduction of…
Independence is not given, it is taken
This article explores competing histories of independence in Côte d'Ivoire. The 2010 commemoration of fifty years of independence led to competing histories about how and if the nation achieved independence in 1960. The postelectoral crisis of 2010–2011 that followed soon afterwards has been interpreted by supporters of the outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo as an attempt by France and the international community to re‐colonise Côte d'Ivoire. The …
Parenting as contested practice between experts, audiences, and selves
Interrogating what constitutes "good parenting" captures and reflects multiple debates within and across different societies, milieus, and power constellations. In this Special Issue, Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves, we bring together seven articles and a commentary that tackle how people move through the labyrinth of diverse knowledge formations and when they reproduce themselves as "good" via their own considerations of parentin…
Independence is not given, it is taken
This article explores competing histories of independence in Côte d'Ivoire. The 2010 commemoration of fifty years of independence led to competing histories about how and if the nation achieved independence in 1960. The postelectoral crisis of 2010–2011 that followed soon afterwards has been interpreted by supporters of the outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo as an attempt by France and the international community to re‐colonise Côte d'Ivoire. The …
Performing the national territory
The nation is a relatively abstract imagined community that is visualised through a variety of symbols as well as communicative and performative practices. In this paper, we explore how the national territory, one of the foundations of the nation‐state, is performed on national‐day celebrations and brings the nation into being. Drawing on ethnographic research on national days in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, we show how the state's inte…
Embodying the nation
National-day parades constitute a common format of embodying the nation. Composed of numerous distinct bodies of persons with individual characteristics (being short or tall) and multilayered societal roles (being a nurse, a father etc.), parades primarily evoke an image of sameness, while they also display differences. Focusing on the preparation of the Burkinabè national-day parades, this paper explores practices of disciplining bodies and maki…
Making beautiful babies
According to the notion of "parental determinism," parents are paradoxically imagined as both powerful actors and in need of expert guidance and supervision. Subsequent research in different world regions problematizes the links between parental competence, child development, and societal ills. However, the question of what "good parenting" actually consists of is highly contingent. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Ivorian parents and in a c…
Doing Being a Father
This article looks at fatherhood and fathering as performative practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class fathers in urban Côte d'Ivoire, it explores intimate fathering as both an exceptional practice and a reinterpretation of hegemonic masculinities. Intimate fathering offers an alternative way of living for Ivorian men, who use it to renegotiate and reevaluate gender roles and relations between nuclear and extended families a…
The bureaucratic making of national culture in North-Western Ghana
In this article I explore the making of national culture through bureaucratic routines in the Centre for National Culture in Wa, North-Western Ghana. I focus on an aspect of bureaucracy that is usually left aside: the productivity and creativity of bureaucratic routines. State, nation and culture are not fixed entities, but have to be constantly produced through processes of negotiation and meaning-making and through the continual reproduction of…
"Jeder hat seinen Platz". Differenzpolitik und Raumordnung in afrikanischen Nationalfeiern
In diesem Aufsatz untersuchen wir, wie in afrikanischen Nationalfeiern in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire und Ghana durch Raum- und Sitzordnungen die Nation inszeniert und aufgeführt wird. Nation ist eine vorgestellte Gemeinschaft, die beansprucht, andere soziale Zugehörigkeiten wie die zu ethnischen oder religiösen Gemeinschaften zu stratifizieren und andere Differenzen wie etwa Alter oder Geschlecht zu Binnendifferenzen herabzustufen. Nation hat ab…
Fathers and Children of Ivorian Independence
I look at the image of a generation of youth as the vanguard force of an ongoing struggle for independence and a new nation on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Ivorian independence. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of Reinhart Koselleck, I explore the making of national time as layered temporality, with generations not succeeding each other but rather coexisting. My analysis of expressions and performances of 'doing being youth' …
Independence is not given, it is taken
This article explores competing histories of independence in Côte d'Ivoire. The 2010 commemoration of fifty years of independence led to competing histories about how and if the nation achieved independence in 1960. The postelectoral crisis of 2010–2011 that followed soon afterwards has been interpreted by supporters of the outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo as an attempt by France and the international community to re‐colonise Côte d'Ivoire. The …
The bureaucratic making of national culture in North-Western Ghana
In this article I explore the making of national culture through bureaucratic routines in the Centre for National Culture in Wa, North-Western Ghana. I focus on an aspect of bureaucracy that is usually left aside: the productivity and creativity of bureaucratic routines. State, nation and culture are not fixed entities, but have to be constantly produced through processes of negotiation and meaning-making and through the continual reproduction of…
Côte d’Ivoire
In August 2010, Côte d’Ivoire commemorated fifty years of independence. Local Pentecostal churches likewise celebrated the jubilee, marking the liberation of slaves after seven times seven years of servitude as promised in Leviticus 25: 8–10. This reading of independence was closely linked to the incumbent president’s political project of refondation based on a premillennial understanding of the interrelatedness of past, present and future. In th…
Fathers and Children of Ivorian Independence
I look at the image of a generation of youth as the vanguard force of an ongoing struggle for independence and a new nation on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Ivorian independence. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of Reinhart Koselleck, I explore the making of national time as layered temporality, with generations not succeeding each other but rather coexisting. My analysis of expressions and performances of 'doing being youth' …
"Jeder hat seinen Platz". Differenzpolitik und Raumordnung in afrikanischen Nationalfeiern
In diesem Aufsatz untersuchen wir, wie in afrikanischen Nationalfeiern in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire und Ghana durch Raum- und Sitzordnungen die Nation inszeniert und aufgeführt wird. Nation ist eine vorgestellte Gemeinschaft, die beansprucht, andere soziale Zugehörigkeiten wie die zu ethnischen oder religiösen Gemeinschaften zu stratifizieren und andere Differenzen wie etwa Alter oder Geschlecht zu Binnendifferenzen herabzustufen. Nation hat ab…
Performing the national territory
The nation is a relatively abstract imagined community that is visualised through a variety of symbols as well as communicative and performative practices. In this paper, we explore how the national territory, one of the foundations of the nation‐state, is performed on national‐day celebrations and brings the nation into being. Drawing on ethnographic research on national days in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, we show how the state's inte…
Embodying the nation
National-day parades constitute a common format of embodying the nation. Composed of numerous distinct bodies of persons with individual characteristics (being short or tall) and multilayered societal roles (being a nurse, a father etc.), parades primarily evoke an image of sameness, while they also display differences. Focusing on the preparation of the Burkinabè national-day parades, this paper explores practices of disciplining bodies and maki…
Nostalgie de l’avenir
Cet article tente de retracer la généalogie de la mémoire prospective et des avenirs nostalgiques au sein du nationalisme ivoirien. L’unité d’analyse choisie pour en périodiser les différentes phases est la célébration de la fête nationale, qui suscite souvent de vifs débats sur ce qui devrait être commémoré ou oublié, et sur la manière dont le passé est lié au présent et à l’avenir de la nation. L’article examine la présentation de la future nat…
Doing Being a Father
This article looks at fatherhood and fathering as performative practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class fathers in urban Côte d'Ivoire, it explores intimate fathering as both an exceptional practice and a reinterpretation of hegemonic masculinities. Intimate fathering offers an alternative way of living for Ivorian men, who use it to renegotiate and reevaluate gender roles and relations between nuclear and extended families a…
Making beautiful babies
According to the notion of "parental determinism," parents are paradoxically imagined as both powerful actors and in need of expert guidance and supervision. Subsequent research in different world regions problematizes the links between parental competence, child development, and societal ills. However, the question of what "good parenting" actually consists of is highly contingent. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Ivorian parents and in a c…
Parenting as contested practice between experts, audiences, and selves
Interrogating what constitutes "good parenting" captures and reflects multiple debates within and across different societies, milieus, and power constellations. In this Special Issue, Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves, we bring together seven articles and a commentary that tackle how people move through the labyrinth of diverse knowledge formations and when they reproduce themselves as "good" via their own considerations of parentin…
Sociology (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · African Studies and Ethnography (5 obras) · Cultural Identity and Heritage (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Humanities (5 obras)