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- Baez Ullberg, Susann, PhD, Associate Professor, 1968-, et al.
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Making Megaprojects : The Practices and Politics of Scale-Making
- 2023
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In: Ethnos. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0014-1844 .- 1469-588X. ; , s. 1-10
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The world is currently experiencing a surge of investment in, and development of, large-scale infrastructural building projects, frequently captured by the term 'megaprojects'. Distinguished by the bulk of their envisioned materiality, the volume of financial capital required to build them, and the complexity of technical, legal, administrative, and political tools needed to bring them into operation, megaprojects do not easily lend themselves to ethnographic inquiry. While in recent years, ethnographic attention to infrastructure has given rise to a burgeoning theoretical apparatus and a growing anthropological subfield in which the various aspects of megaprojects have been analysed, scale as a concept has remained under-theorised. Exploring scale-making ethnographically and unpacking the work that scale does for various actors and publics, the contributions collected in this issue make a theoretical contribution to the anthropology of infrastructure by showing how scale connects the everyday making and the spectacular politics of megaprojects.
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- Baez Ullberg, Susann, PhD, Associate Professor, 1968-, et al.
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Making Megaprojects : The Practices and Politics of Scale-Making
- 2023
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In: Ethnos. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0014-1844 .- 1469-588X.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The world is currently experiencing a surge of investment in, and development of, large-scale infrastructural building projects, frequently captured by the term 'megaprojects'. Distinguished by the bulk of their envisioned materiality, the volume of financial capital required to build them, and the complexity of technical, legal, administrative, and political tools needed to bring them into operation, megaprojects do not easily lend themselves to ethnographic inquiry. While in recent years, ethnographic attention to infrastructure has given rise to a burgeoning theoretical apparatus and a growing anthropological subfield in which the various aspects of megaprojects have been analysed, scale as a concept has remained under-theorised. Exploring scale-making ethnographically and unpacking the work that scale does for various actors and publics, the contributions collected in this issue make a theoretical contribution to the anthropology of infrastructure by showing how scale connects the everyday making and the spectacular politics of megaprojects.
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- Hagberg, Sten, 1962-, et al.
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Socio-political Turmoil in Mali: The Public Debate Following the Coup d’État on 22 March 2012
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In: Africa Spectrum. - 0002-0397 .- 1868-6869. ; 47:2-3, s. 111-125
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- During the night between 21 and 22 March 2012, a group of youngmilitary officers overthrew Mali’s president, Amadou Toumani Touré. Thegroup justified the coup by citing the inability of the regime to both deal withthe crisis in the North and provide the army with the appropriate material andmanpower to defend the national territory. The coup plunged Mali into violence,and caused a de facto partition of the country. The socio-political turmoilpitting different political and armed factions against each other has continuedunabated and has been accompanied by intense mass media debates. Inthis report we focus on the Malian public debate. By looking at the politicalclass, the international community, and the partition of the country, we analyserepresentations and stereotypes prevailing in this debate.
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- Körling, Gabriella, 1980-
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In Search of the State : An Ethnography of Public Service Provision in Urban Niger
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This study explores public health and education provision in Niamey, the capital of Niger, by merging the ethnographic study of public services with an anthropological analysis of the state and of local politics. Based on anthropological fieldwork carried out in a group of neighbourhoods in the periphery of Niamey, the study highlights the political dimensions of public service provision in a local arena where international development interventions and national plans meet local realities and where a wide range of actors and institutions, dis-courses, meanings, and practices are mobilized in the offering of and the regulation of access to public services. It focuses on the political, economic, and socio-cultural aspects of public service provision, too often hidden behind contemporary buzzwords of development such as community participation and decentralization that dominate global debates about education and healthcare in developing countries. The study brings forth the strategies of urban resi-dents in dealing with daily challenges in the consolidation of service provision and in educa-tion and health-seeking trajectories. It shows that access to a satisfactory treatment of illness or a successful school career is premised on the ability to navigate on the medical and educa-tion markets, which are made up of a plurality of providers and of official and unofficial costs and transactions. Further, these public services engage different actors such as commu-nity committees, traditional chiefs, local associations, the municipality and elected municipal councillors, emergent leaders, NGOs, and international development aid. The study demon-strates that despite the uncertainty of state support in health and education provision and a widespread dissatisfaction with these public services, the image of the state as service pro-vider is reproduced on a day by day basis through local efforts at securing public services.
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- Körling, Gabriella, 1980-
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La matérialité de la reconnaissance : les mobilisations locales pour la fourniture de services publics à Niamey
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In: Politique Africaine. - 0244-7827 .- 2264-5047. ; 4:132, s. 27-47
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Cet article aborde les questions de la propriété et de la citoyenneté à travers le prisme de la fourniture de services publics et d’infrastructures dans les zones d’habitat informel en périphérie de Niamey, la capitale du Niger. Il analyse les dynamiques de la propriété et les demandes de services publics et explore ainsi le lien intime entre le lieu, la matérialité et l’articulation des dimensions de citoyenneté et d’appartenance à la ville. La fourniture de services publics est ainsi appréhendée comme une arène politique au sein de laquelle sont négociées quotidiennement les relations entre les résidents et les autorités locales et nationales. Cet article démontre que, dans un contexte d’insécurité relative aux droits fonciers, les mobilisations locales pour la fourniture de services publics et d’équipements sont un moyen de revendiquer des droits sur le foncier urbain et ainsi, plus largement, d’aspirer à l’intégration dans la communauté politique de la ville. Il montre également que ces mobilisations sont la source de processus d’institutionnalisation dans un contexte où l’État brille par son absence en ce qui concerne les investissements, l’infrastructure et la planification urbaine.
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- Körling, Gabriella, 1980-
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The mobilization of the local in a public primary school in peri-urban Niamey, Niger
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In: APAD Bulletin. - Munster : LIT. ; :31-32, s. 137-159
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In Niger the decentralization of the education system and the implication of local communities in the management and financing of education services is the dominant logic of national education policy promoted by international donors. In the article I examine the mobilization of local actors in public education provision. I do this using an ethnographic study of the daily management of a newly established public primary school in peri-urban Niamey. The case study illustrates the diversity of actors, from traditional chiefs to district advisors and international development projects that are implicated in the provision of public education as well as the different logics and stakes at play. It is also revelatory of the limited room for manoeuvre of the 'local community' organized in school committees in ensuring the day-to-day functioning of the school. Finally it is argued that at the same time as education provision is in part taken over by local actors the idea of the state as the ideal provider of public education remains strong.
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