Niklas Hultin
Biographic Data
| ID | 648662 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niklas Hultin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niklas |
| FAMILY NAME | Hultin |
| SIGNATURE | HULTIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5315-6429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
African Print Cultures
Book Review| September 01 2021 African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century. DEREK R. PETERSON, EMMA HUNTER, and STEPHANIE NEWELL. Niklas Hultin Niklas Hultin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2021) 7 (2): 140–143. https://doi.org/10.2307/48642064 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share F…
Affective Justice
Reviewed by: Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback by Kamari Maxine Clarke Niklas Hultin Kamari Maxine Clarke. Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback, 2019. Durham: Duke University Press. Affective Justice offers an extensive, ambitious, and thorough reconsideration of how we think about international criminal justice, as principally embodied in the Interna…
Waiting and political transitions
In early 2016, the Gambia experienced an unexpected political transition when the long-term autocrat Yahya Jammeh left the country and was replaced with a democratically elected president. This article examines this transition and its aftermath from the perspective of waiting. It addresses what happened after the waiting was over – after Jammeh had left. It uses the twin ideas of resignation and resentment, primarily in relation to ethnicity, to …
Anticipatory tribalism
This article examines the upsurge in denunciations of 'tribalism' in public debate during The Gambia's transition from the autocracy of Yahya Jammeh to the 'New Gambia' under President Adama Barrow. In these public debates, derogatory statements about particular ethnicities articulate fears of present or future alliances to monopolise political power. These fears are disproportionate to attempts of organised political mobilisation on ethnic groun…
Censorship
Anthropologists have addressed censorship as a practice within specific communities and as an instrument of state power. Anthropologists have also examined the impact of censorship on anthropological practice. Anthropologists' engagement with censorship can be divided into three broad and overlapping areas: censorship as an external limitation on anthropological practice, censorship and its effects within specific communities, and censorship as a…
Autocracy, migration, and the Gambia's ‘unprecedented’ 2016 election
On 1 December 2016, Adama Barrow representing ‘Coalition 2016’ triumphed in The Gambian presidential election, defeating incumbent Yahya Jammeh of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) in a three-way race with Mamma Kandeh of The Gambia Democratic Congress. Initial estimates released by Alieu Momar Njie, chief of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), suggested that Barrow won by a significant margin of 50,000 vote…
Debate
This article examines the ways in which American gun owners deploy a particular ethical system in their responses to instances of mass gun violence. I argue that anthropology is uniquely situated to provide a better understanding of how this ethical system is produced, thereby allowing us to move beyond the falsely dichotomous terms of the gun control debate. Recently returned from a period of fieldwork with a gun rights activist community in San…
Cutting and Connecting
Reconceptualising Arms Control
Leaky humanitarianism
Among Gambians, attitudes toward small arms control vary. For some, it appears as the unjust act of an overbearing and autocratic government; for others, it is part of the project of fashioning a modern state; for yet others, being licensed to carry a gun is a sign of respect from the state. On the basis of these differences, I develop the notion of "leaky humanitarianism" to capture how humanitarian small arms control underwrites state power. I …
Law, Opacity, and Information in Urban Gambia
This article examines the discourse surrounding the circulation of legal information in urban Gambia. It argues that ideas of information sharing suggest that Gambian law is fundamentally opaque, not simply in that it is not transparent but that it is only partially known. Drawing on the insights of Marilyn Strathern and other 'Melanesianists', the article further proposes that information sharing is a kind of relation and that opacity is a way o…
Guns, anthropology, and cultural relativism
This comment responds to Hugh Gusterson's guest editorial on gun control in the February 2013 issue and applies is to the case of Gambia
Introduction to ACPR
Abu Bakarr Bah, Mark Davidheiser, Niklas Hultin, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Introduction to ACPR: African Conflict in Global Perspective, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 1-7
Repositioning the Front Lines? Reflections on the Ethnography of African Securityscapes
This article reviews writings by anthropologists and scholars in adjacent fields that take an ethnographic approach to political security and its institutions to argue that this scholarship suggests two modes of critique beneficial to understanding security processes in Africa. One mode is contrastive and emphasizes vernacular conceptions of security, whereas the other is immanent and discursive (complementing “securitization” and the Copenhagen …
The African Human Rights System
Books
Voter Registration Cards, Political Subjectivity, and Trust in Paper in the Gambia
This article examines the voter registration card and the social context of voter registrations in the Gambia, West Africa. Drawing on recent ethnographies of documents and using data on worries over foreigners’ efforts to fraudulently obtain voter registration cards, a public information campaign on the Gambian electoral process, international legal material on the Gambian democracy, and observations at voter registration stations, the article a…
Pure Fabrication
Debate
This article examines the ways in which American gun owners deploy a particular ethical system in their responses to instances of mass gun violence. I argue that anthropology is uniquely situated to provide a better understanding of how this ethical system is produced, thereby allowing us to move beyond the falsely dichotomous terms of the gun control debate. Recently returned from a period of fieldwork with a gun rights activist community in San…
Voter Registration Cards, Political Subjectivity, and Trust in Paper in the Gambia
This article examines the voter registration card and the social context of voter registrations in the Gambia, West Africa. Drawing on recent ethnographies of documents and using data on worries over foreigners’ efforts to fraudulently obtain voter registration cards, a public information campaign on the Gambian electoral process, international legal material on the Gambian democracy, and observations at voter registration stations, the article a…
Waiting and political transitions
In early 2016, the Gambia experienced an unexpected political transition when the long-term autocrat Yahya Jammeh left the country and was replaced with a democratically elected president. This article examines this transition and its aftermath from the perspective of waiting. It addresses what happened after the waiting was over – after Jammeh had left. It uses the twin ideas of resignation and resentment, primarily in relation to ethnicity, to …
Autocracy, migration, and the Gambia's ‘unprecedented’ 2016 election
On 1 December 2016, Adama Barrow representing ‘Coalition 2016’ triumphed in The Gambian presidential election, defeating incumbent Yahya Jammeh of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) in a three-way race with Mamma Kandeh of The Gambia Democratic Congress. Initial estimates released by Alieu Momar Njie, chief of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), suggested that Barrow won by a significant margin of 50,000 vote…
Leaky humanitarianism
Among Gambians, attitudes toward small arms control vary. For some, it appears as the unjust act of an overbearing and autocratic government; for others, it is part of the project of fashioning a modern state; for yet others, being licensed to carry a gun is a sign of respect from the state. On the basis of these differences, I develop the notion of "leaky humanitarianism" to capture how humanitarian small arms control underwrites state power. I …
Pure Fabrication
Anticipatory tribalism
This article examines the upsurge in denunciations of 'tribalism' in public debate during The Gambia's transition from the autocracy of Yahya Jammeh to the 'New Gambia' under President Adama Barrow. In these public debates, derogatory statements about particular ethnicities articulate fears of present or future alliances to monopolise political power. These fears are disproportionate to attempts of organised political mobilisation on ethnic groun…
Guns, anthropology, and cultural relativism
This comment responds to Hugh Gusterson's guest editorial on gun control in the February 2013 issue and applies is to the case of Gambia
Repositioning the Front Lines? Reflections on the Ethnography of African Securityscapes
This article reviews writings by anthropologists and scholars in adjacent fields that take an ethnographic approach to political security and its institutions to argue that this scholarship suggests two modes of critique beneficial to understanding security processes in Africa. One mode is contrastive and emphasizes vernacular conceptions of security, whereas the other is immanent and discursive (complementing “securitization” and the Copenhagen …
Pure Fabrication
Voter Registration Cards, Political Subjectivity, and Trust in Paper in the Gambia
This article examines the voter registration card and the social context of voter registrations in the Gambia, West Africa. Drawing on recent ethnographies of documents and using data on worries over foreigners’ efforts to fraudulently obtain voter registration cards, a public information campaign on the Gambian electoral process, international legal material on the Gambian democracy, and observations at voter registration stations, the article a…
Books
Repositioning the Front Lines? Reflections on the Ethnography of African Securityscapes
This article reviews writings by anthropologists and scholars in adjacent fields that take an ethnographic approach to political security and its institutions to argue that this scholarship suggests two modes of critique beneficial to understanding security processes in Africa. One mode is contrastive and emphasizes vernacular conceptions of security, whereas the other is immanent and discursive (complementing “securitization” and the Copenhagen …
The African Human Rights System
Introduction to ACPR
Abu Bakarr Bah, Mark Davidheiser, Niklas Hultin, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Introduction to ACPR: African Conflict in Global Perspective, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 1-7
Law, Opacity, and Information in Urban Gambia
This article examines the discourse surrounding the circulation of legal information in urban Gambia. It argues that ideas of information sharing suggest that Gambian law is fundamentally opaque, not simply in that it is not transparent but that it is only partially known. Drawing on the insights of Marilyn Strathern and other 'Melanesianists', the article further proposes that information sharing is a kind of relation and that opacity is a way o…
Guns, anthropology, and cultural relativism
This comment responds to Hugh Gusterson's guest editorial on gun control in the February 2013 issue and applies is to the case of Gambia
Reconceptualising Arms Control
Leaky humanitarianism
Among Gambians, attitudes toward small arms control vary. For some, it appears as the unjust act of an overbearing and autocratic government; for others, it is part of the project of fashioning a modern state; for yet others, being licensed to carry a gun is a sign of respect from the state. On the basis of these differences, I develop the notion of "leaky humanitarianism" to capture how humanitarian small arms control underwrites state power. I …
Cutting and Connecting
Autocracy, migration, and the Gambia's ‘unprecedented’ 2016 election
On 1 December 2016, Adama Barrow representing ‘Coalition 2016’ triumphed in The Gambian presidential election, defeating incumbent Yahya Jammeh of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) in a three-way race with Mamma Kandeh of The Gambia Democratic Congress. Initial estimates released by Alieu Momar Njie, chief of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), suggested that Barrow won by a significant margin of 50,000 vote…
Debate
This article examines the ways in which American gun owners deploy a particular ethical system in their responses to instances of mass gun violence. I argue that anthropology is uniquely situated to provide a better understanding of how this ethical system is produced, thereby allowing us to move beyond the falsely dichotomous terms of the gun control debate. Recently returned from a period of fieldwork with a gun rights activist community in San…
Censorship
Anthropologists have addressed censorship as a practice within specific communities and as an instrument of state power. Anthropologists have also examined the impact of censorship on anthropological practice. Anthropologists' engagement with censorship can be divided into three broad and overlapping areas: censorship as an external limitation on anthropological practice, censorship and its effects within specific communities, and censorship as a…
Waiting and political transitions
In early 2016, the Gambia experienced an unexpected political transition when the long-term autocrat Yahya Jammeh left the country and was replaced with a democratically elected president. This article examines this transition and its aftermath from the perspective of waiting. It addresses what happened after the waiting was over – after Jammeh had left. It uses the twin ideas of resignation and resentment, primarily in relation to ethnicity, to …
Anticipatory tribalism
This article examines the upsurge in denunciations of 'tribalism' in public debate during The Gambia's transition from the autocracy of Yahya Jammeh to the 'New Gambia' under President Adama Barrow. In these public debates, derogatory statements about particular ethnicities articulate fears of present or future alliances to monopolise political power. These fears are disproportionate to attempts of organised political mobilisation on ethnic groun…
African Print Cultures
Book Review| September 01 2021 African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century. DEREK R. PETERSON, EMMA HUNTER, and STEPHANIE NEWELL. Niklas Hultin Niklas Hultin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of West African History (2021) 7 (2): 140–143. https://doi.org/10.2307/48642064 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share F…
Affective Justice
Reviewed by: Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback by Kamari Maxine Clarke Niklas Hultin Kamari Maxine Clarke. Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback, 2019. Durham: Duke University Press. Affective Justice offers an extensive, ambitious, and thorough reconsideration of how we think about international criminal justice, as principally embodied in the Interna…
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