Gabriella Körling
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 196494 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gabriella Körling |
| PRENOMES | Gabriella |
| SOBRENOME | Körling |
| ASSINATURA | KÖRLING G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3742-239X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Soft Infrastructures
How are mobilities mediated in contexts where the movement of people has a long and central history, and how do we account for their gendered, generational, and classed differentiation? Through the concept of soft infrastructures, we suggest that the facilitation of regional labor mobilities in West Africa rely to a considerable extent not only on personal social networks, but on broadly shared cultural notions of friendship, solidarity, and occu…
Making Megaprojects
The world is currently experiencing a surge of investment in, and development of, large-scale infrastructural building projects, frequently captured by the term 'megaprojects'. Distinguished by the bulk of their envisioned materiality, the volume of financial capital required to build them, and the complexity of technical, legal, administrative, and political tools needed to bring them into operation, megaprojects do not easily lend themselves to…
African military politics in the Sahel
Bricks, Documents and Pipes
In this article I explore the ways in which material things-bricks, documents, pipes, and utility poles-mediate everyday life and politics in informal neighborhoods in Niamey, the capital of Niger. I argue that informal neighborhoods are key sites where the material becomes political. Created 'from below,' these neighborhoods are literally constructed brick by brick through the gradual division of land plots, the incremental construction and impr…
Tout a été loti
In and around Niamey, land has emerged as a central source of economic and political capital and as the object of intense competition.Land speculation has accelerated with the decentralisation of land management including zoning or land subdivision operations (lotissement) whereby rural land such as agricultural fields are transformed into land plots mainly for housing.The multiplication of actors involved in zoning has led to an unprecedented co…
Urban land contestations and political mobilisation
The paper is based on anthropological research on socio-political opposition in West African municipalities. We analyse how land schemes for urban development are at the centre of social contest and political mobilisation in municipalities, by developing examples from peri-urban areas of Bamako, Mali and Niamey, Niger. We point to several contradictions that lie at the heart of zoning, one of the most dominant forms of urban land management and u…
Terrains inaccessibles
Dans cet article nous nous intéressons à ce qui arrive au chercheur quand le terrain devient inaccessible pour l'enquête ethnographique. L'article s'appuie sur une recherche comparative sur l'opposition sociopolitique dans les communes au Burkina Faso, au Mali et au Niger. Au Mali, notre recherche sur les politiques municipales avait commencé en octobre 2011 et aurait dû se poursuivre les années suivantes. Mais avec le coup d'Etat du 22 mars 2012…
In Search of the State
This study explores public health and education provision in Niamey, the capital of Niger, by merging the ethnographic study of public services with an anthropological analysis of the state and of local politics. Based on anthropological fieldwork carried out in a group of neighbourhoods in the periphery of Niamey, the study highlights the political dimensions of public service provision in a local arena where international development interventi…
Inaccessible Fields
Cet article s’appuie sur une recherche comparative en cours sur les oppositions socio-politiques dans les communes du Burkina Faso, du Mali et du Niger. Ici, nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement à ce qui arrive au chercheur quand le terrain devient inaccessible pour pratiquer l’ethnographie. Au Mali, notre recherche sur les politiques municipales dans deux communes avait commencé en octobre 2011 et aurait dû se poursuivre les années suivan…
La matérialité de la reconnaissance
Cet article aborde les questions de la propriété et de la citoyenneté à travers le prisme de la fourniture de services publics et d'infrastructures dans les zones d'habitat informel en périphérie de Niamey, la capitale du Niger. Il analyse les dynamiques de la propriété et les demandes de services publics et explore ainsi le lien intime entre le lieu, la matérialité et l'articulation des dimensions de citoyenneté et d'appartenance à la ville. La …
Socio-political Turmoil in Mali
During the night between 21 and 22 March 2012, a group of young military officers overthrew Mali's president, Amadou Toumani Touré. The group justified the coup by citing the inability of the regime to both deal with the crisis in the North and provide the army with the appropriate material and manpower to defend the national territory. The coup plunged Mali into violence, and caused a de facto partition of the country. The socio-political turmoi…
The mobilization of the local in a public primary school in peri-urban Niamey, Niger
In Niger the decentralization of the education system and the implication of local communities in the management and financing of education services is the dominant logic of national education policy promoted by international donors. In the article I examine the mobilization of local actors in public education provision. I do this using an ethnographic study of the daily management of a newly established public primary school in peri-urban Niamey…
Socio-political Turmoil in Mali
During the night between 21 and 22 March 2012, a group of young military officers overthrew Mali's president, Amadou Toumani Touré. The group justified the coup by citing the inability of the regime to both deal with the crisis in the North and provide the army with the appropriate material and manpower to defend the national territory. The coup plunged Mali into violence, and caused a de facto partition of the country. The socio-political turmoi…
Urban land contestations and political mobilisation
The paper is based on anthropological research on socio-political opposition in West African municipalities. We analyse how land schemes for urban development are at the centre of social contest and political mobilisation in municipalities, by developing examples from peri-urban areas of Bamako, Mali and Niamey, Niger. We point to several contradictions that lie at the heart of zoning, one of the most dominant forms of urban land management and u…
Bricks, Documents and Pipes
In this article I explore the ways in which material things-bricks, documents, pipes, and utility poles-mediate everyday life and politics in informal neighborhoods in Niamey, the capital of Niger. I argue that informal neighborhoods are key sites where the material becomes political. Created 'from below,' these neighborhoods are literally constructed brick by brick through the gradual division of land plots, the incremental construction and impr…
Terrains inaccessibles
Dans cet article nous nous intéressons à ce qui arrive au chercheur quand le terrain devient inaccessible pour l'enquête ethnographique. L'article s'appuie sur une recherche comparative sur l'opposition sociopolitique dans les communes au Burkina Faso, au Mali et au Niger. Au Mali, notre recherche sur les politiques municipales avait commencé en octobre 2011 et aurait dû se poursuivre les années suivantes. Mais avec le coup d'Etat du 22 mars 2012…
Making Megaprojects
The world is currently experiencing a surge of investment in, and development of, large-scale infrastructural building projects, frequently captured by the term 'megaprojects'. Distinguished by the bulk of their envisioned materiality, the volume of financial capital required to build them, and the complexity of technical, legal, administrative, and political tools needed to bring them into operation, megaprojects do not easily lend themselves to…
Tout a été loti
In and around Niamey, land has emerged as a central source of economic and political capital and as the object of intense competition.Land speculation has accelerated with the decentralisation of land management including zoning or land subdivision operations (lotissement) whereby rural land such as agricultural fields are transformed into land plots mainly for housing.The multiplication of actors involved in zoning has led to an unprecedented co…
La matérialité de la reconnaissance
Cet article aborde les questions de la propriété et de la citoyenneté à travers le prisme de la fourniture de services publics et d'infrastructures dans les zones d'habitat informel en périphérie de Niamey, la capitale du Niger. Il analyse les dynamiques de la propriété et les demandes de services publics et explore ainsi le lien intime entre le lieu, la matérialité et l'articulation des dimensions de citoyenneté et d'appartenance à la ville. La …
The mobilization of the local in a public primary school in peri-urban Niamey, Niger
In Niger the decentralization of the education system and the implication of local communities in the management and financing of education services is the dominant logic of national education policy promoted by international donors. In the article I examine the mobilization of local actors in public education provision. I do this using an ethnographic study of the daily management of a newly established public primary school in peri-urban Niamey…
The mobilization of the local in a public primary school in peri-urban Niamey, Niger
In Niger the decentralization of the education system and the implication of local communities in the management and financing of education services is the dominant logic of national education policy promoted by international donors. In the article I examine the mobilization of local actors in public education provision. I do this using an ethnographic study of the daily management of a newly established public primary school in peri-urban Niamey…
Socio-political Turmoil in Mali
During the night between 21 and 22 March 2012, a group of young military officers overthrew Mali's president, Amadou Toumani Touré. The group justified the coup by citing the inability of the regime to both deal with the crisis in the North and provide the army with the appropriate material and manpower to defend the national territory. The coup plunged Mali into violence, and caused a de facto partition of the country. The socio-political turmoi…
La matérialité de la reconnaissance
Cet article aborde les questions de la propriété et de la citoyenneté à travers le prisme de la fourniture de services publics et d'infrastructures dans les zones d'habitat informel en périphérie de Niamey, la capitale du Niger. Il analyse les dynamiques de la propriété et les demandes de services publics et explore ainsi le lien intime entre le lieu, la matérialité et l'articulation des dimensions de citoyenneté et d'appartenance à la ville. La …
In Search of the State
This study explores public health and education provision in Niamey, the capital of Niger, by merging the ethnographic study of public services with an anthropological analysis of the state and of local politics. Based on anthropological fieldwork carried out in a group of neighbourhoods in the periphery of Niamey, the study highlights the political dimensions of public service provision in a local arena where international development interventi…
Inaccessible Fields
Cet article s’appuie sur une recherche comparative en cours sur les oppositions socio-politiques dans les communes du Burkina Faso, du Mali et du Niger. Ici, nous nous intéressons plus particulièrement à ce qui arrive au chercheur quand le terrain devient inaccessible pour pratiquer l’ethnographie. Au Mali, notre recherche sur les politiques municipales dans deux communes avait commencé en octobre 2011 et aurait dû se poursuivre les années suivan…
Terrains inaccessibles
Dans cet article nous nous intéressons à ce qui arrive au chercheur quand le terrain devient inaccessible pour l'enquête ethnographique. L'article s'appuie sur une recherche comparative sur l'opposition sociopolitique dans les communes au Burkina Faso, au Mali et au Niger. Au Mali, notre recherche sur les politiques municipales avait commencé en octobre 2011 et aurait dû se poursuivre les années suivantes. Mais avec le coup d'Etat du 22 mars 2012…
Urban land contestations and political mobilisation
The paper is based on anthropological research on socio-political opposition in West African municipalities. We analyse how land schemes for urban development are at the centre of social contest and political mobilisation in municipalities, by developing examples from peri-urban areas of Bamako, Mali and Niamey, Niger. We point to several contradictions that lie at the heart of zoning, one of the most dominant forms of urban land management and u…
Tout a été loti
In and around Niamey, land has emerged as a central source of economic and political capital and as the object of intense competition.Land speculation has accelerated with the decentralisation of land management including zoning or land subdivision operations (lotissement) whereby rural land such as agricultural fields are transformed into land plots mainly for housing.The multiplication of actors involved in zoning has led to an unprecedented co…
Bricks, Documents and Pipes
In this article I explore the ways in which material things-bricks, documents, pipes, and utility poles-mediate everyday life and politics in informal neighborhoods in Niamey, the capital of Niger. I argue that informal neighborhoods are key sites where the material becomes political. Created 'from below,' these neighborhoods are literally constructed brick by brick through the gradual division of land plots, the incremental construction and impr…
African military politics in the Sahel
Soft Infrastructures
How are mobilities mediated in contexts where the movement of people has a long and central history, and how do we account for their gendered, generational, and classed differentiation? Through the concept of soft infrastructures, we suggest that the facilitation of regional labor mobilities in West Africa rely to a considerable extent not only on personal social networks, but on broadly shared cultural notions of friendship, solidarity, and occu…
Making Megaprojects
The world is currently experiencing a surge of investment in, and development of, large-scale infrastructural building projects, frequently captured by the term 'megaprojects'. Distinguished by the bulk of their envisioned materiality, the volume of financial capital required to build them, and the complexity of technical, legal, administrative, and political tools needed to bring them into operation, megaprojects do not easily lend themselves to…
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