Andrea Behrends
Biographic Data
| ID | 588991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Behrends |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Behrends |
| SIGNATURE | BEHRENDS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
This money belongs to the people of Chad
The last chapter of part three foregrounds a more general perspective on development. On the one hand, the author examines the Chadian president’s focus on a project of architectural high modernity, envisioning the “new” city of N’Djamena financed by the petro-state’s oil billions. On the other hand, the author interrogates notions of peace and war, arguing that it is best to speak of a transitional phase that, in the future, might lean toward ei…
This is neither my first nor second time seeing war
The book’s third part starts with a view from the Chadian capital, N’Djamena, which lies at a 500 miles distance from the Chad-Sudan border region. What is the national government’s position in view of the situation on this remote, and troublesome, border? Again, the section begins with a story from the time during the war, about the rebel attack on N’Djamena. The story of the upcoming tensions days before the actual attack, the population’s reac…
They are our relatives now
This part concludes with a focus on what happened “after” the war, a phase representing a transition from what aid organizations considered to be a state of emergency to post-emergency. To start closing down the camps and to integrate refugees into the Chadian state, aid agencies rely upon the peoples’ existing modes of belonging. The re-categorization of refugees is shown via two examples: one concerns how aid agencies integrate camp dwellers in…
Tomorrow, there will be war!
The introduction starts with a conversation around a fire side during fieldwork in a village on the Chad-Sudan border in 2001. A war was announced for the next day, and no one was supposed to go to the market, the elders declared. This situation reveals how an immediate arrival of war is locally anticipated, and provides accounts of how people have known to practically react to the threat of sudden attacks by armed men on horseback. The text intr…
Conclusion
By engaging the concept of emplacement, the concluding chapter aligns the book’s analytical results of lifeworlds in crisis with a brief review of the relevant literature on how people stay and continue to live in precarious and uncertain places. It also takes account of a personal conclusion regarding getting involved in each other’s lives, and about what crisis made visible. To follow up on the way knowledge is productive in situations of uncer…
Epilogue
As another brutal war began during the publication phase of the book, this short epilogue takes account of the events leading to it by drawing a direct line between the former war (which this book is about) and the current war. It reflects on why people took to arms faster now than before; and states that media coverage is almost non-existent, in contrast to the former war. It concludes with the borderland population’s utter incomprehension for t…
So, we went with them
In a narrative manner and by introducing personal experiences, this chapter shows how war arrived and how people individually or collectively coped with it. It proceeds to emphasize the production of belonging through deliberate foregrounding and backgrounding (or “un/making”) of differences over longer periods of time. It provides insight into the borderland population’s historical experiences of war and their current anticipation of futures as …
Governing the Ungovernable? Conceptualising embeddedness in Ghana's gold mining sector
Artisanal Small-scale mining (ASM) contributes less revenue to state agencies, is challenging to monitor and tax, produces lower mineral export volumes, applies less sophisticated technologies, and frequently violates mining regulations compared to Large-scale mining (LSM). • Formalisation reforms usually target ASM to ensure responsible mining. • Formalisation practices overlook the increasing uptake of advanced technologies and employment capac…
Lifeworlds in Crisis
The continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driven from their homes and many forced into refugee camps in western Sudan and neighboring Chad. Building on twenty years of research in the region, Andrea Behrends tracks the repercussions of this conflict—sometimes referred to as the “first genocide of the twenty-first century”—for those living through it: those who stayed put, those who fled from rur…
The Devil’s Money
This article analyzes the effects of a World Bank–promoted oil revenue distribution model in Chad. The authors engage the classic anthropological concerns of kinship and land tenure to examine how oil money has affected the southern Chadian oil zone. In determining whether oil money differs from money originating in other industries, two examples are used: the effects of salaries from pipeline construction on marriage payments and the effects of …
Travelling Models
The introductory chapter presents an overview of concepts covered in this book Travelling Models in African Conflict Management . The book examines how travelling models shape global processes of change in the field of conflict management. Two of the principal questions addressed in the book are the following: How is change in one place related to developments in other places? And, why are certain issues that are important in one place taken up i…
Travelling Models in African Conflict Management
Significations of oil in Africa or
Forum: Anthropology of oil and the resource curse For half a century, oil production has been a key factor in the development of a small number of African states south of the Sahara. Only now, however, it is ecoming a source of substantial social, economic and cultural transformation for an increasing number of new African oil states. This is partly due to the fact that political instability in the Near and Middle East, the inexorable move toward…
Fighting for oil when there is no oil yet
The area around the border of Sudan and Chad, where Darfur lies, has been an unimportant and unknown backwater throughout history. Today, however, Darfur is all over the international press. Everybody knows about the grim war there. There is no oil currently in production in Darfur. However, there is oil in the south of neighboring Chad and in Southern Sudan, and there might be oil in Darfur. This article considers a case of fighting for oil when…
The crazy curse and crude domination
Oil has turned out to be something of a curse. Most developing petrostates have found that their economies have worsened, their political regimes have become more authoritarian, and their conflicts have intensified. Further, this curse is a bit crazy because oil brings wealth, which would seem to bring peace and prosperity, not the trouble that so often accompanies it. The goal of this introduction is to propose a research strategy for the anthro…
Drahtseilakte. Frauen aus Nordghana zwischen Bildung, Beruf und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen
Andrea Behrends Drahtseilakte. Frauen aus Nordghana zwischen Bildung, Beruf und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel Verlag (paperback €19.90, ISBN 3 86099 309 7). 2002, 272 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Pogminga'-the 'Proper Dagara Woman
To retain respect among members of their own society, urban professional women originating from northern Ghana maintain a rural concept of proper women. This article explores how, historically, both Catholic missionaries and the Dagara people changed this concept. To the women, the ability to speak their minds and be self-confident, attributes accorded to the concept mainly by the Catholic women's orders, help them in their professional careers. …
Bonds and Boundaries in Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso
Bonds and Boundaries in Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso. Sten Hagbergand Alexis B. Tengan, eds. Uppsala, Sweden: Elanders Gotab, 2000. 197 pp., photographs, illustrations, tables
A Job, a Shop, and Loving Business'. Lebensweisen gebildeter Frauen in Liberia
Veronica Fuest, ‘A job a shop, and loving business’. Lebensweisen gebildeter Frauen in Liberia. Göttinger Studien zur Ethnologie 1. Münster: Lit Verlag, 1996246 pp., DM 48.80, ISBN 3 8258 2644 9. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Der Fliegende Koffer
Pogminga'-the 'Proper Dagara Woman
To retain respect among members of their own society, urban professional women originating from northern Ghana maintain a rural concept of proper women. This article explores how, historically, both Catholic missionaries and the Dagara people changed this concept. To the women, the ability to speak their minds and be self-confident, attributes accorded to the concept mainly by the Catholic women's orders, help them in their professional careers. …
The crazy curse and crude domination
Oil has turned out to be something of a curse. Most developing petrostates have found that their economies have worsened, their political regimes have become more authoritarian, and their conflicts have intensified. Further, this curse is a bit crazy because oil brings wealth, which would seem to bring peace and prosperity, not the trouble that so often accompanies it. The goal of this introduction is to propose a research strategy for the anthro…
Significations of oil in Africa or
Forum: Anthropology of oil and the resource curse For half a century, oil production has been a key factor in the development of a small number of African states south of the Sahara. Only now, however, it is ecoming a source of substantial social, economic and cultural transformation for an increasing number of new African oil states. This is partly due to the fact that political instability in the Near and Middle East, the inexorable move toward…
Fighting for oil when there is no oil yet
The area around the border of Sudan and Chad, where Darfur lies, has been an unimportant and unknown backwater throughout history. Today, however, Darfur is all over the international press. Everybody knows about the grim war there. There is no oil currently in production in Darfur. However, there is oil in the south of neighboring Chad and in Southern Sudan, and there might be oil in Darfur. This article considers a case of fighting for oil when…
Drahtseilakte. Frauen aus Nordghana zwischen Bildung, Beruf und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen
Andrea Behrends Drahtseilakte. Frauen aus Nordghana zwischen Bildung, Beruf und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel Verlag (paperback €19.90, ISBN 3 86099 309 7). 2002, 272 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Governing the Ungovernable? Conceptualising embeddedness in Ghana's gold mining sector
Artisanal Small-scale mining (ASM) contributes less revenue to state agencies, is challenging to monitor and tax, produces lower mineral export volumes, applies less sophisticated technologies, and frequently violates mining regulations compared to Large-scale mining (LSM). • Formalisation reforms usually target ASM to ensure responsible mining. • Formalisation practices overlook the increasing uptake of advanced technologies and employment capac…
A Job, a Shop, and Loving Business'. Lebensweisen gebildeter Frauen in Liberia
Veronica Fuest, ‘A job a shop, and loving business’. Lebensweisen gebildeter Frauen in Liberia. Göttinger Studien zur Ethnologie 1. Münster: Lit Verlag, 1996246 pp., DM 48.80, ISBN 3 8258 2644 9. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Der Fliegende Koffer
A Job, a Shop, and Loving Business'. Lebensweisen gebildeter Frauen in Liberia
Veronica Fuest, ‘A job a shop, and loving business’. Lebensweisen gebildeter Frauen in Liberia. Göttinger Studien zur Ethnologie 1. Münster: Lit Verlag, 1996246 pp., DM 48.80, ISBN 3 8258 2644 9. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Pogminga'-the 'Proper Dagara Woman
To retain respect among members of their own society, urban professional women originating from northern Ghana maintain a rural concept of proper women. This article explores how, historically, both Catholic missionaries and the Dagara people changed this concept. To the women, the ability to speak their minds and be self-confident, attributes accorded to the concept mainly by the Catholic women's orders, help them in their professional careers. …
Bonds and Boundaries in Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso
Bonds and Boundaries in Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso. Sten Hagbergand Alexis B. Tengan, eds. Uppsala, Sweden: Elanders Gotab, 2000. 197 pp., photographs, illustrations, tables
Drahtseilakte. Frauen aus Nordghana zwischen Bildung, Beruf und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen
Andrea Behrends Drahtseilakte. Frauen aus Nordghana zwischen Bildung, Beruf und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel Verlag (paperback €19.90, ISBN 3 86099 309 7). 2002, 272 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Fighting for oil when there is no oil yet
The area around the border of Sudan and Chad, where Darfur lies, has been an unimportant and unknown backwater throughout history. Today, however, Darfur is all over the international press. Everybody knows about the grim war there. There is no oil currently in production in Darfur. However, there is oil in the south of neighboring Chad and in Southern Sudan, and there might be oil in Darfur. This article considers a case of fighting for oil when…
The crazy curse and crude domination
Oil has turned out to be something of a curse. Most developing petrostates have found that their economies have worsened, their political regimes have become more authoritarian, and their conflicts have intensified. Further, this curse is a bit crazy because oil brings wealth, which would seem to bring peace and prosperity, not the trouble that so often accompanies it. The goal of this introduction is to propose a research strategy for the anthro…
Significations of oil in Africa or
Forum: Anthropology of oil and the resource curse For half a century, oil production has been a key factor in the development of a small number of African states south of the Sahara. Only now, however, it is ecoming a source of substantial social, economic and cultural transformation for an increasing number of new African oil states. This is partly due to the fact that political instability in the Near and Middle East, the inexorable move toward…
Travelling Models
The introductory chapter presents an overview of concepts covered in this book Travelling Models in African Conflict Management . The book examines how travelling models shape global processes of change in the field of conflict management. Two of the principal questions addressed in the book are the following: How is change in one place related to developments in other places? And, why are certain issues that are important in one place taken up i…
Travelling Models in African Conflict Management
The Devil’s Money
This article analyzes the effects of a World Bank–promoted oil revenue distribution model in Chad. The authors engage the classic anthropological concerns of kinship and land tenure to examine how oil money has affected the southern Chadian oil zone. In determining whether oil money differs from money originating in other industries, two examples are used: the effects of salaries from pipeline construction on marriage payments and the effects of …
This money belongs to the people of Chad
The last chapter of part three foregrounds a more general perspective on development. On the one hand, the author examines the Chadian president’s focus on a project of architectural high modernity, envisioning the “new” city of N’Djamena financed by the petro-state’s oil billions. On the other hand, the author interrogates notions of peace and war, arguing that it is best to speak of a transitional phase that, in the future, might lean toward ei…
This is neither my first nor second time seeing war
The book’s third part starts with a view from the Chadian capital, N’Djamena, which lies at a 500 miles distance from the Chad-Sudan border region. What is the national government’s position in view of the situation on this remote, and troublesome, border? Again, the section begins with a story from the time during the war, about the rebel attack on N’Djamena. The story of the upcoming tensions days before the actual attack, the population’s reac…
They are our relatives now
This part concludes with a focus on what happened “after” the war, a phase representing a transition from what aid organizations considered to be a state of emergency to post-emergency. To start closing down the camps and to integrate refugees into the Chadian state, aid agencies rely upon the peoples’ existing modes of belonging. The re-categorization of refugees is shown via two examples: one concerns how aid agencies integrate camp dwellers in…
Tomorrow, there will be war!
The introduction starts with a conversation around a fire side during fieldwork in a village on the Chad-Sudan border in 2001. A war was announced for the next day, and no one was supposed to go to the market, the elders declared. This situation reveals how an immediate arrival of war is locally anticipated, and provides accounts of how people have known to practically react to the threat of sudden attacks by armed men on horseback. The text intr…
Conclusion
By engaging the concept of emplacement, the concluding chapter aligns the book’s analytical results of lifeworlds in crisis with a brief review of the relevant literature on how people stay and continue to live in precarious and uncertain places. It also takes account of a personal conclusion regarding getting involved in each other’s lives, and about what crisis made visible. To follow up on the way knowledge is productive in situations of uncer…
Epilogue
As another brutal war began during the publication phase of the book, this short epilogue takes account of the events leading to it by drawing a direct line between the former war (which this book is about) and the current war. It reflects on why people took to arms faster now than before; and states that media coverage is almost non-existent, in contrast to the former war. It concludes with the borderland population’s utter incomprehension for t…
So, we went with them
In a narrative manner and by introducing personal experiences, this chapter shows how war arrived and how people individually or collectively coped with it. It proceeds to emphasize the production of belonging through deliberate foregrounding and backgrounding (or “un/making”) of differences over longer periods of time. It provides insight into the borderland population’s historical experiences of war and their current anticipation of futures as …
Governing the Ungovernable? Conceptualising embeddedness in Ghana's gold mining sector
Artisanal Small-scale mining (ASM) contributes less revenue to state agencies, is challenging to monitor and tax, produces lower mineral export volumes, applies less sophisticated technologies, and frequently violates mining regulations compared to Large-scale mining (LSM). • Formalisation reforms usually target ASM to ensure responsible mining. • Formalisation practices overlook the increasing uptake of advanced technologies and employment capac…
Lifeworlds in Crisis
The continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driven from their homes and many forced into refugee camps in western Sudan and neighboring Chad. Building on twenty years of research in the region, Andrea Behrends tracks the repercussions of this conflict—sometimes referred to as the “first genocide of the twenty-first century”—for those living through it: those who stayed put, those who fled from rur…
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