José‐maría Muñoz
Biographic Data
| ID | 124073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José‐maría Muñoz |
| GIVEN NAMES | José‐maría |
| FAMILY NAME | Muñoz |
| SIGNATURE | MUÑOZ J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5989-7102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tensions autour de l’infrastructure logistique de N’Djaména, Tchad
Faisant frontière avec le Cameroun dans sa partie ouest, N’Djaména reste le principal centre commercial au Tchad, faisant du secteur du transport un enjeux majeur. Le quartier Ngueli, limitrophe à la ville de Kousseri, abrite le bureau de douane le plus important du pays. Ngueli illustre l’importance des activités logistiques dans les villes du continent africain. S’appuyant sur des observations ethnographiques et des entretiens qualitatifs et pr…
The inconspicuous power of border festivals: Insights from the Chad-Cameroon border
Held every two years and alternating venues between Yagoua (Cameroon) and Bongor (Chad), the Tokna Massana border festival celebrates the identity and culture of the partitioned Masa peoples. This article explores how border festivals like Tokna Massana can complement and innovate the study of borders and borderlands. Building on participant observation, semi-structured interviews and archival research, we analyze how exacting cross-border festiv…
Withholding Trust: Business Taxpayers and the Value-Added Tax in Cameroon
For more than two decades now, Cameroon’s most prominent private sector representatives have singled out the processing of value-added tax refunds as a serious hindrance to economic activity in the country. The dimensions of this problem and its intractability derive to a large extent from a feature of the tax system known as VAT withholding. The consensus is that VAT withholding allows the state to attain certain revenue levels by modifying the …
Ethnographies of entrepreneurs, business associations and rentier capitalism in Africa: Introduction
Introduction, research question, theses Twenty years after The Economist called Africa “the hopeless continent” (13 May 2000), the view has profoundly changed. At least until the pandemic, the effects of which are unclear at the present time, the dominant mood had been decidedly positive, one of “Lions on the Move”. This euphoria was supported by perceived dynamics in economic fields like agriculture, mobile phones, microfinance and supermarkets …
Saving the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Organizational Dynamics and Effectiveness of NGOs in Cameroon
Making Contracts Public in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
International agendas around the promotion of good governance and the fight against corruption have translated into numerous reform processes across the world. As a result, public contracts have become objects of intense scrutiny. In spite of their role in shaping urban infrastructure and their salience in the experience of urban residents, public contracts have received scant ethnographic attention. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in a context ma…
Talking Law in Times of Reform: Paradoxes of Legal Entitlement in Cameroon
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2003 and 2005, this article examines how legality is constructed in present-day Adamaoua Province, Cameroon. Focusing on an instance of a process locally referred to as la concertation, I analyze how state officials and cattle traders gather to discuss the practical fate of law. As a heightened moment of suspended enforcement, la concertation is productive for both officials, who work out the li…
Business Visibility and Taxation in Northern Cameroon
Through an analysis of the taxation of business activities in Adamaoua Province, Cameroon, this article aims to provide ethnographic substance to current debates about the "tax effort" in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the current mission of the tax authorities to identify all potential taxpayers and track their locations, movements, and activities is often presented in the context of nationwide reform and a commitment to making all taxable enterpr…
Au nom du développement: Ethnicité, autochtonie et promotion du secteur privé au nord Cameroun
Le projet d'exploitation pétrolière et d'oléoduc Tchad-Cameroun constitue un des projets d'infrastructure les plus importants entrepris en Afrique durant ces dernières années. Les variations sur le thème du développement élaborées par le consortium pétrolier se basent sur une notion aseptisée du local, dépourvue d'histoire et de politique. L'accès au global des « locaux » qui ont profité du projet en qualité de sous-traitants est passé par l'acce…
Business Visibility and Taxation in Northern Cameroon
Through an analysis of the taxation of business activities in Adamaoua Province, Cameroon, this article aims to provide ethnographic substance to current debates about the "tax effort" in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the current mission of the tax authorities to identify all potential taxpayers and track their locations, movements, and activities is often presented in the context of nationwide reform and a commitment to making all taxable enterpr…
Making Contracts Public in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
International agendas around the promotion of good governance and the fight against corruption have translated into numerous reform processes across the world. As a result, public contracts have become objects of intense scrutiny. In spite of their role in shaping urban infrastructure and their salience in the experience of urban residents, public contracts have received scant ethnographic attention. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in a context ma…
The inconspicuous power of border festivals: Insights from the Chad-Cameroon border
Held every two years and alternating venues between Yagoua (Cameroon) and Bongor (Chad), the Tokna Massana border festival celebrates the identity and culture of the partitioned Masa peoples. This article explores how border festivals like Tokna Massana can complement and innovate the study of borders and borderlands. Building on participant observation, semi-structured interviews and archival research, we analyze how exacting cross-border festiv…
Talking Law in Times of Reform: Paradoxes of Legal Entitlement in Cameroon
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2003 and 2005, this article examines how legality is constructed in present-day Adamaoua Province, Cameroon. Focusing on an instance of a process locally referred to as la concertation, I analyze how state officials and cattle traders gather to discuss the practical fate of law. As a heightened moment of suspended enforcement, la concertation is productive for both officials, who work out the li…
Au nom du développement: Ethnicité, autochtonie et promotion du secteur privé au nord Cameroun
Le projet d'exploitation pétrolière et d'oléoduc Tchad-Cameroun constitue un des projets d'infrastructure les plus importants entrepris en Afrique durant ces dernières années. Les variations sur le thème du développement élaborées par le consortium pétrolier se basent sur une notion aseptisée du local, dépourvue d'histoire et de politique. L'accès au global des « locaux » qui ont profité du projet en qualité de sous-traitants est passé par l'acce…
Au nom du développement: Ethnicité, autochtonie et promotion du secteur privé au nord Cameroun
Le projet d'exploitation pétrolière et d'oléoduc Tchad-Cameroun constitue un des projets d'infrastructure les plus importants entrepris en Afrique durant ces dernières années. Les variations sur le thème du développement élaborées par le consortium pétrolier se basent sur une notion aseptisée du local, dépourvue d'histoire et de politique. L'accès au global des « locaux » qui ont profité du projet en qualité de sous-traitants est passé par l'acce…
Business Visibility and Taxation in Northern Cameroon
Through an analysis of the taxation of business activities in Adamaoua Province, Cameroon, this article aims to provide ethnographic substance to current debates about the "tax effort" in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the current mission of the tax authorities to identify all potential taxpayers and track their locations, movements, and activities is often presented in the context of nationwide reform and a commitment to making all taxable enterpr…
Talking Law in Times of Reform: Paradoxes of Legal Entitlement in Cameroon
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2003 and 2005, this article examines how legality is constructed in present-day Adamaoua Province, Cameroon. Focusing on an instance of a process locally referred to as la concertation, I analyze how state officials and cattle traders gather to discuss the practical fate of law. As a heightened moment of suspended enforcement, la concertation is productive for both officials, who work out the li…
Making Contracts Public in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
International agendas around the promotion of good governance and the fight against corruption have translated into numerous reform processes across the world. As a result, public contracts have become objects of intense scrutiny. In spite of their role in shaping urban infrastructure and their salience in the experience of urban residents, public contracts have received scant ethnographic attention. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in a context ma…
Saving the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Organizational Dynamics and Effectiveness of NGOs in Cameroon
Ethnographies of entrepreneurs, business associations and rentier capitalism in Africa: Introduction
Introduction, research question, theses Twenty years after The Economist called Africa “the hopeless continent” (13 May 2000), the view has profoundly changed. At least until the pandemic, the effects of which are unclear at the present time, the dominant mood had been decidedly positive, one of “Lions on the Move”. This euphoria was supported by perceived dynamics in economic fields like agriculture, mobile phones, microfinance and supermarkets …
Withholding Trust: Business Taxpayers and the Value-Added Tax in Cameroon
For more than two decades now, Cameroon’s most prominent private sector representatives have singled out the processing of value-added tax refunds as a serious hindrance to economic activity in the country. The dimensions of this problem and its intractability derive to a large extent from a feature of the tax system known as VAT withholding. The consensus is that VAT withholding allows the state to attain certain revenue levels by modifying the …
Tensions autour de l’infrastructure logistique de N’Djaména, Tchad
Faisant frontière avec le Cameroun dans sa partie ouest, N’Djaména reste le principal centre commercial au Tchad, faisant du secteur du transport un enjeux majeur. Le quartier Ngueli, limitrophe à la ville de Kousseri, abrite le bureau de douane le plus important du pays. Ngueli illustre l’importance des activités logistiques dans les villes du continent africain. S’appuyant sur des observations ethnographiques et des entretiens qualitatifs et pr…
The inconspicuous power of border festivals: Insights from the Chad-Cameroon border
Held every two years and alternating venues between Yagoua (Cameroon) and Bongor (Chad), the Tokna Massana border festival celebrates the identity and culture of the partitioned Masa peoples. This article explores how border festivals like Tokna Massana can complement and innovate the study of borders and borderlands. Building on participant observation, semi-structured interviews and archival research, we analyze how exacting cross-border festiv…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)