A Cassiman
Biographic Data
| ID | 39215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Cassiman |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassiman |
| SIGNATURE | CASSIMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9190-8529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fragments of affinity
In Accra's migrant neighbourhoods called zongos, personal photo archives are carefully kept in plastic bags or albums, revealing the migratory biographies of living and late family members and the various social activities in which they engage. This paper unpacks the archives of three women in the zongos, interweaving the indexical values of the photographs with an analysis of their material historicity of exchange and haptic encounters. I argue …
Introduction
Ann Cassiman is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven. She works on urban kinship, relatedness and material culture in WestAfrica. Her email is [email protected]. Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. His email address is [email protected]. Lotte Meinert is Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University and currently leads the EU-funded ANTHU…
Pandemic precarity
This editorial highlights how the Covid-19 pandemic has magnified precarity as a global life condition. At the same time, it has also emphasized inequality and exposed how some lives are more precarious than others. Those working in the so-called informal economy have been proportionally harder hit. In sub-Saharan Africa, where most of the economy is informal, many rely on improvisation tactics for everyday survival and well-being. Yet, in order …
Stitching Womanhood in theZongo
Focusing upon the daily lives of young female Muslim apprentices in the sewing shops of Accra'szongocommunities, Cassiman argues that the sewing workshop may be understood as a playground in which young women may experiment with the normative chronologies shaping women's lives, and with ideals of female respectability, self-making, and autonomy. Opening up the possibility to subvert the chrononormativity of apprenticeship and marriage, young seam…
Conservation Trapped in Ethno-regional Politics
The purpose of this study is to analyse the manifold struggles over land in southern Ethiopia's Nechisar National Park (NNP). The formal creation of NNP in 1974 fundamentally altered the scene, and congregated pastoralists, farmers, hunters, and conservationists in the struggles over resource access and use. While 'ancestral rights' continued to be invoked by those who had used the land previously, the NNP management and other actors could now ca…
Spiders on the World Wide Web
This article analyses the online dating activities of Ghanaian young men and women. Finding online friends and lovers who reside in the USA or Europe is considered a fruitful tactic to deal with the often harsh conditions of everyday life in Accra. The first part of the article focuses on the connections between online and offline relationships in specific communities called or ‘stranger quarters’. The second part looks into the intricacies of on…
Browsers and phone girls
The young men of Nima, a popular neighbourhood in Accra, organize themselves in small age groups that meet almost daily in a specific spot, to chat, play and 'wait', while dreaming together of a better future in a distant elsewhere. The friendships that find root in these so-called bases, which often have names such as 'Chicago' or 'Brooklyn', lead to hope and specific modes of action through which these young people engage with the city, the wid…
Home call
Migratory movements within Ghana date back to a period long before colonisation and seasonal migration is part and parcel of daily life in the rural areas. Today however, migration has become more permanent and more feminine. In this paper, the consequences of migration are looked at from the perspective of those who stay behind in rural northeastern Ghana. In a first part, some of the triggers and dynamics at play in national rural-urban migrati…
Home and Away
In Northern Ghana migration is of topical interest since an increasing number of young men and women move towards the southern cities in response to harsh economic and climatic conditions in the northern regions. Large parts of the compound houses are abandoned. During their absence or upon their return the migrants build new rooms in expensive materials and with new designs, as witnesses of their partaking in a larger, so‐called ‘modern’ world. …
Browsers and phone girls
The young men of Nima, a popular neighbourhood in Accra, organize themselves in small age groups that meet almost daily in a specific spot, to chat, play and 'wait', while dreaming together of a better future in a distant elsewhere. The friendships that find root in these so-called bases, which often have names such as 'Chicago' or 'Brooklyn', lead to hope and specific modes of action through which these young people engage with the city, the wid…
Introduction
Ann Cassiman is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven. She works on urban kinship, relatedness and material culture in WestAfrica. Her email is [email protected]. Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. His email address is [email protected]. Lotte Meinert is Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University and currently leads the EU-funded ANTHU…
Home call
Migratory movements within Ghana date back to a period long before colonisation and seasonal migration is part and parcel of daily life in the rural areas. Today however, migration has become more permanent and more feminine. In this paper, the consequences of migration are looked at from the perspective of those who stay behind in rural northeastern Ghana. In a first part, some of the triggers and dynamics at play in national rural-urban migrati…
Fragments of affinity
In Accra's migrant neighbourhoods called zongos, personal photo archives are carefully kept in plastic bags or albums, revealing the migratory biographies of living and late family members and the various social activities in which they engage. This paper unpacks the archives of three women in the zongos, interweaving the indexical values of the photographs with an analysis of their material historicity of exchange and haptic encounters. I argue …
Home and Away
In Northern Ghana migration is of topical interest since an increasing number of young men and women move towards the southern cities in response to harsh economic and climatic conditions in the northern regions. Large parts of the compound houses are abandoned. During their absence or upon their return the migrants build new rooms in expensive materials and with new designs, as witnesses of their partaking in a larger, so‐called ‘modern’ world. …
Home and Away
In Northern Ghana migration is of topical interest since an increasing number of young men and women move towards the southern cities in response to harsh economic and climatic conditions in the northern regions. Large parts of the compound houses are abandoned. During their absence or upon their return the migrants build new rooms in expensive materials and with new designs, as witnesses of their partaking in a larger, so‐called ‘modern’ world. …
Home call
Migratory movements within Ghana date back to a period long before colonisation and seasonal migration is part and parcel of daily life in the rural areas. Today however, migration has become more permanent and more feminine. In this paper, the consequences of migration are looked at from the perspective of those who stay behind in rural northeastern Ghana. In a first part, some of the triggers and dynamics at play in national rural-urban migrati…
Browsers and phone girls
The young men of Nima, a popular neighbourhood in Accra, organize themselves in small age groups that meet almost daily in a specific spot, to chat, play and 'wait', while dreaming together of a better future in a distant elsewhere. The friendships that find root in these so-called bases, which often have names such as 'Chicago' or 'Brooklyn', lead to hope and specific modes of action through which these young people engage with the city, the wid…
Spiders on the World Wide Web
This article analyses the online dating activities of Ghanaian young men and women. Finding online friends and lovers who reside in the USA or Europe is considered a fruitful tactic to deal with the often harsh conditions of everyday life in Accra. The first part of the article focuses on the connections between online and offline relationships in specific communities called or ‘stranger quarters’. The second part looks into the intricacies of on…
Conservation Trapped in Ethno-regional Politics
The purpose of this study is to analyse the manifold struggles over land in southern Ethiopia's Nechisar National Park (NNP). The formal creation of NNP in 1974 fundamentally altered the scene, and congregated pastoralists, farmers, hunters, and conservationists in the struggles over resource access and use. While 'ancestral rights' continued to be invoked by those who had used the land previously, the NNP management and other actors could now ca…
Introduction
Ann Cassiman is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven. She works on urban kinship, relatedness and material culture in WestAfrica. Her email is [email protected]. Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. His email address is [email protected]. Lotte Meinert is Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University and currently leads the EU-funded ANTHU…
Pandemic precarity
This editorial highlights how the Covid-19 pandemic has magnified precarity as a global life condition. At the same time, it has also emphasized inequality and exposed how some lives are more precarious than others. Those working in the so-called informal economy have been proportionally harder hit. In sub-Saharan Africa, where most of the economy is informal, many rely on improvisation tactics for everyday survival and well-being. Yet, in order …
Stitching Womanhood in theZongo
Focusing upon the daily lives of young female Muslim apprentices in the sewing shops of Accra'szongocommunities, Cassiman argues that the sewing workshop may be understood as a playground in which young women may experiment with the normative chronologies shaping women's lives, and with ideals of female respectability, self-making, and autonomy. Opening up the possibility to subvert the chrononormativity of apprenticeship and marriage, young seam…
Fragments of affinity
In Accra's migrant neighbourhoods called zongos, personal photo archives are carefully kept in plastic bags or albums, revealing the migratory biographies of living and late family members and the various social activities in which they engage. This paper unpacks the archives of three women in the zongos, interweaving the indexical values of the photographs with an analysis of their material historicity of exchange and haptic encounters. I argue …
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)