Steven Pierce
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 93059 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steven Pierce |
| PRENOMES | Steven |
| SOBRENOME | Pierce |
| ASSINATURA | PIERCE S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-1410-220X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 87 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Suffering Subject
Shortly after the start of colonial rule in Northern Nigeria, a series of scandals over flogging brought international attention. A network of newspapers reported on flogging cases, particularly those involving women and educated, often Christian, Africans from outside the north. International attention focused on these cases as humanitarian outrages. The Nigerian administration and the Colonial Office deflected the scandals through a shifting se…
Colonial Economies of Nigeria
The history of Nigeria’s colonial economy is intertwined with its political history. Colonization brought to power a government determined to “develop” the country by making it an exporter of crops attractive to global markets, on terms that favored Britain and western countries. A vast expansion of cash cropping, other opportunities for wage labor, and the end of slavery not only created a new kind of economy but also touched off radical social …
The Criminal and the Corrupt
The commentaries in this Kitabkhana on Milan Vaishnav's When Crime Pays and Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption provide ample food for thought about the social-scientific study of crime and corruption. All agree on the importance of focusing on actual practice and not forcing non-Western societies into Eurocentric heuristics. They also pose urgent questions about what might constitute grounded theories of governance and productive avenu…
Moral Economies of Corruption
Nigeria is famous for "419" emails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how corruption play…
Nigeria Can Do without Such Perverts”
Recent political homophobia in Nigeria, including vigilante violence and repressive legislation, is often imagined to be a reaction to outside forces: religious movements like evangelical Christianity and reformist Islam or the spread of Western homosexual identities. This article suggests this is unlikely and that understanding recent patterns of homophobia requires understanding local cultures of same-sex practice and the anxieties underlying p…
The Invention of Corruption
Although corruption is overwhelmingly important in Nigerian political discourse and studies of contemporary politics, the topic has received surprisingly little attention from historians. This article considers an instance of corruption that took place in Kano emirate, Northern Nigeria, in 1924. The government’s response to the case was instructive: although the likeliest reconstruction of events suggested wide-ranging, severe political malpracti…
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
Moral Economies of Corruption
In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering corruption's dynamic nature, finding it to be a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices
Mission Statement Responses
The Public, the Private, and the Sanitary
The Public, the Private, and the Sanitary: Domesticity and family regulation in Northern Nigeria Steven Pierce The recent violence in northern Nigeria1 between government forces and an extremist Muslim group called Bok’o Haram (“Western education is forbidden”) has returned the country’s religious conflicts to international attention. When Bok’o Haram first came to prominence in 2009, its stance on gender segregation—extreme even by northern Nige…
Pointing to Property
Colonial contact created many African 'traditions' that are in fact novel; part of this process involved translation, in which cultural accommodations were determined not just by the political interests of negotiators but by the challenges of moving between languages and conceptual universes. This article focuses on the cultural translation of land tenure and property in colonial northern Nigeria, as legal paradigms and principles of governance. …
A Culture of Corruption
Daniel Jordan Smith, A Culture of Corruption: everyday deception and popular discontent in Nigeria. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press (hp $27.95 - 0 691 12722 0). 2007, xvii + 263 pp. - Volume 77 Issue 4
Discipline and the Other Body
Punishment and the Political Body
Looking Like a State
In the international press Nigeria is represented almost exclusively as a state in crisis. Recurrent military coups, ethnic and religious sectionalism, a civil war, a series of bloody riots and local unrest (of which the Niger delta situation is the best-known example), economic turmoil, and the re-imposition of the Islamic criminal code in many northern states have all been used to paint a picture of chaos and collapse. Journalists and governmen…
Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano
Challenges notions of land tenure and colonial rule in northern Nigeria
Prostitution, Politics, and Paradigms
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa. Edited by Florence Bernault, translated by Janet Roitman. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. x, 287. $67.95 cloth, $28.95 paper. The collection under review, English translation of Florence Bernault's Enfermement, prison et chatiments en Afrique du 19e siecle a nos jours, is important addition to a literature applying Foucaultian problematics to African history. The collection describes more than…
Farmers and ‘Prostitutes’
This article focuses on the implications of an emir of Kano's decision to forbid women from inheriting houses and farms in 1923 and a successor's reversal of that policy in 1954. The earlier emir justified his policy by claiming that women inheritors were becoming prostitutes and the later one argued that women's re-enfranchisement would ameliorate the poverty of destitute elderly women. Both these events appear to have been radical innovations f…
Punishment and the Political Body Flogging and Colonialism in Northern Nigeria
Criminal law in colonial Northern Nigeria was administrated through a system of 'native courts'. In the Muslim Hausa areas of Kano Emirate, these courts applied the Maliki school of Islamic law, or at least those portions of it the British deemed not 'repugnant'. Categories of crime that had flogging as their stipulated penalty presented the colonial regime with a series of practical and political difficulties. While flogging was not, at least in…
Discipline and the Other Body Correction, Corporeality, and Colonial Rule
2001). DISCIPLINE AND THE OTHER BODY Correction, Corporeality, and Colonial Rule. Interventions: Vol. 3, Discipline and the Other Body, pp. 159-168
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa. Edited by Florence Bernault, translated by Janet Roitman. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. x, 287. $67.95 cloth, $28.95 paper. The collection under review, English translation of Florence Bernault's Enfermement, prison et chatiments en Afrique du 19e siecle a nos jours, is important addition to a literature applying Foucaultian problematics to African history. The collection describes more than…
Looking Like a State
In the international press Nigeria is represented almost exclusively as a state in crisis. Recurrent military coups, ethnic and religious sectionalism, a civil war, a series of bloody riots and local unrest (of which the Niger delta situation is the best-known example), economic turmoil, and the re-imposition of the Islamic criminal code in many northern states have all been used to paint a picture of chaos and collapse. Journalists and governmen…
Punishment and the Political Body Flogging and Colonialism in Northern Nigeria
Criminal law in colonial Northern Nigeria was administrated through a system of 'native courts'. In the Muslim Hausa areas of Kano Emirate, these courts applied the Maliki school of Islamic law, or at least those portions of it the British deemed not 'repugnant'. Categories of crime that had flogging as their stipulated penalty presented the colonial regime with a series of practical and political difficulties. While flogging was not, at least in…
Farmers and ‘Prostitutes’
This article focuses on the implications of an emir of Kano's decision to forbid women from inheriting houses and farms in 1923 and a successor's reversal of that policy in 1954. The earlier emir justified his policy by claiming that women inheritors were becoming prostitutes and the later one argued that women's re-enfranchisement would ameliorate the poverty of destitute elderly women. Both these events appear to have been radical innovations f…
Discipline and the Other Body Correction, Corporeality, and Colonial Rule
2001). DISCIPLINE AND THE OTHER BODY Correction, Corporeality, and Colonial Rule. Interventions: Vol. 3, Discipline and the Other Body, pp. 159-168
Nigeria Can Do without Such Perverts”
Recent political homophobia in Nigeria, including vigilante violence and repressive legislation, is often imagined to be a reaction to outside forces: religious movements like evangelical Christianity and reformist Islam or the spread of Western homosexual identities. This article suggests this is unlikely and that understanding recent patterns of homophobia requires understanding local cultures of same-sex practice and the anxieties underlying p…
Pointing to Property
Colonial contact created many African 'traditions' that are in fact novel; part of this process involved translation, in which cultural accommodations were determined not just by the political interests of negotiators but by the challenges of moving between languages and conceptual universes. This article focuses on the cultural translation of land tenure and property in colonial northern Nigeria, as legal paradigms and principles of governance. …
Punishment and the Political Body Flogging and Colonialism in Northern Nigeria
Criminal law in colonial Northern Nigeria was administrated through a system of 'native courts'. In the Muslim Hausa areas of Kano Emirate, these courts applied the Maliki school of Islamic law, or at least those portions of it the British deemed not 'repugnant'. Categories of crime that had flogging as their stipulated penalty presented the colonial regime with a series of practical and political difficulties. While flogging was not, at least in…
Discipline and the Other Body Correction, Corporeality, and Colonial Rule
2001). DISCIPLINE AND THE OTHER BODY Correction, Corporeality, and Colonial Rule. Interventions: Vol. 3, Discipline and the Other Body, pp. 159-168
Farmers and ‘Prostitutes’
This article focuses on the implications of an emir of Kano's decision to forbid women from inheriting houses and farms in 1923 and a successor's reversal of that policy in 1954. The earlier emir justified his policy by claiming that women inheritors were becoming prostitutes and the later one argued that women's re-enfranchisement would ameliorate the poverty of destitute elderly women. Both these events appear to have been radical innovations f…
Prostitution, Politics, and Paradigms
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa
A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa. Edited by Florence Bernault, translated by Janet Roitman. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. x, 287. $67.95 cloth, $28.95 paper. The collection under review, English translation of Florence Bernault's Enfermement, prison et chatiments en Afrique du 19e siecle a nos jours, is important addition to a literature applying Foucaultian problematics to African history. The collection describes more than…
Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano
Challenges notions of land tenure and colonial rule in northern Nigeria
Discipline and the Other Body
Punishment and the Political Body
Looking Like a State
In the international press Nigeria is represented almost exclusively as a state in crisis. Recurrent military coups, ethnic and religious sectionalism, a civil war, a series of bloody riots and local unrest (of which the Niger delta situation is the best-known example), economic turmoil, and the re-imposition of the Islamic criminal code in many northern states have all been used to paint a picture of chaos and collapse. Journalists and governmen…
A Culture of Corruption
Daniel Jordan Smith, A Culture of Corruption: everyday deception and popular discontent in Nigeria. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press (hp $27.95 - 0 691 12722 0). 2007, xvii + 263 pp. - Volume 77 Issue 4
Mission Statement Responses
The Public, the Private, and the Sanitary
The Public, the Private, and the Sanitary: Domesticity and family regulation in Northern Nigeria Steven Pierce The recent violence in northern Nigeria1 between government forces and an extremist Muslim group called Bok’o Haram (“Western education is forbidden”) has returned the country’s religious conflicts to international attention. When Bok’o Haram first came to prominence in 2009, its stance on gender segregation—extreme even by northern Nige…
Pointing to Property
Colonial contact created many African 'traditions' that are in fact novel; part of this process involved translation, in which cultural accommodations were determined not just by the political interests of negotiators but by the challenges of moving between languages and conceptual universes. This article focuses on the cultural translation of land tenure and property in colonial northern Nigeria, as legal paradigms and principles of governance. …
Moral Economies of Corruption
Nigeria is famous for "419" emails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering how corruption play…
Nigeria Can Do without Such Perverts”
Recent political homophobia in Nigeria, including vigilante violence and repressive legislation, is often imagined to be a reaction to outside forces: religious movements like evangelical Christianity and reformist Islam or the spread of Western homosexual identities. This article suggests this is unlikely and that understanding recent patterns of homophobia requires understanding local cultures of same-sex practice and the anxieties underlying p…
The Invention of Corruption
Although corruption is overwhelmingly important in Nigerian political discourse and studies of contemporary politics, the topic has received surprisingly little attention from historians. This article considers an instance of corruption that took place in Kano emirate, Northern Nigeria, in 1924. The government’s response to the case was instructive: although the likeliest reconstruction of events suggested wide-ranging, severe political malpracti…
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
Moral Economies of Corruption
In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering corruption's dynamic nature, finding it to be a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices
The Criminal and the Corrupt
The commentaries in this Kitabkhana on Milan Vaishnav's When Crime Pays and Steven Pierce's Moral Economies of Corruption provide ample food for thought about the social-scientific study of crime and corruption. All agree on the importance of focusing on actual practice and not forcing non-Western societies into Eurocentric heuristics. They also pose urgent questions about what might constitute grounded theories of governance and productive avenu…
Colonial Economies of Nigeria
The history of Nigeria’s colonial economy is intertwined with its political history. Colonization brought to power a government determined to “develop” the country by making it an exporter of crops attractive to global markets, on terms that favored Britain and western countries. A vast expansion of cash cropping, other opportunities for wage labor, and the end of slavery not only created a new kind of economy but also touched off radical social …
The Suffering Subject
Shortly after the start of colonial rule in Northern Nigeria, a series of scandals over flogging brought international attention. A network of newspapers reported on flogging cases, particularly those involving women and educated, often Christian, Africans from outside the north. International attention focused on these cases as humanitarian outrages. The Nigerian administration and the Colonial Office deflected the scandals through a shifting se…
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