03394nam 2200661Ia 450 991045917700332120210518005424.01-282-67920-197866126792090-226-66966-110.7208/9780226669663(CKB)2670000000033505(EBL)557577(OCoLC)648760790(SSID)ssj0000424248(PQKBManifestationID)12109268(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424248(PQKBWorkID)10471134(PQKB)10933963(MiAaPQ)EBC557577(DE-B1597)523851(DE-B1597)9780226669663(Au-PeEL)EBL557577(CaPaEBR)ebr10402615(CaONFJC)MIL267920(EXLCZ)99267000000003350520091025d2010 uy 0engur|n#---|u||utxtccrNostalgia for the future[electronic resource] West Africa after the Cold War /Charles PiotChicago ;London University of Chicago Press20101 online resource (212 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-66964-5 0-226-66965-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --One. States of Emergency --Two. The End of History --Three. Exit Strategy --Mise En Scène --Four. Charismatic Enchantments --Five. Arrested Development --Six. The Death of a Culture --Notes --Bibliography --IndexSince the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Charles Piot suggests that a new biopolitics after state sovereignty is remaking the face of one of the world's poorest regions. In a country where playing the U.S. Department of State's green card lottery is a national pastime and the preponderance of cybercafés and Western Union branches signals a widespread desire to connect to the rest of the world, Nostalgia for the Future makes clear that the cultural and political terrain that underlies postcolonial theory has shifted. In order to map out this new terrain, Piot enters into critical dialogue with a host of important theorists, including Agamben, Hardt and Negri, Deleuze, and Mbembe. The result is a deft interweaving of rich observations of Togolese life with profound insights into the new, globalized world in which that life takes place.PostcolonialismAfrica, WestPostcolonialismTogoAfrica, WestHistory1960-TogoHistory20th centuryTogoHistory21st centuryElectronic books.PostcolonialismPostcolonialism966.03/3Piot Charles952067MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459177003321Nostalgia for the future2221467UNINA