The Libyan Connection
Settlement, War, and Other Entanglements in Northern Chad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8977918 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Scheele (0000-0001-7224-7668, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115-134 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853715000766 |
| OpenAlex | W2582355369 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
Historically, connections between southern Libya and northern Chad have always been close, if only due to the fundamental need for connectivity that characterises most Saharan economies. Drawing on so far mostly inaccessible archival records and oral history, this article outlines the implications of this proximity, arguing that it led to intimate entanglements within families and an ongoing confusion of property rights. This in turn resulted in increased rather than diminished hostility during the years of war that opposed the two countries, as people attempted to define uncertain boundaries, and were – and still are – competing for access to similar resources, moral, symbolic, social, and economic
Confusion · Connection (principal bundle · Economics · Epistemology · Genealogy · Hostility · Political economy · Political science · Property (philosophy · Settlement (finance · Sociology · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Gender Studies · History · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Le modèle sahélien de la circulation, de la mobilité et de l'incertitude spatiale
La circulation et les droits sur le bétail, clés de la vie sociale chez les Toubou (Tchad, Niger)
Le palmier du Borkou, végétal social total
The Path Is Easy and the Benefits Large
Eastern Libya, Wadai and the Sanūsīya
Traders, Saints, and Irrigation
Distant Shores
African history and environmental history
Across the Libyan Desert to Kufara
Through Kufra to Darfur
L'immigration en Libye
The Desert-Side Economy of the Central Sudan
Les échanges transsahariens, la Senusiya et les révoltes twareg de 1916-17
Quand les saints font les villes. Lecture anthropologique de la pratique sociale d'un saint marocain du XVIIesiècle
The Distribution of Sanusi Lodges
The values of 'anarchy
Towards an Anthropology of the Mediterranean
The Awlad Sulayman of Libya and Chad
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2019 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |