02074nam 2200349zu 450 991100036720332120240320184406.0(CKB)30950543500041(BIP)084973282(Perlego)4192049(EXLCZ)993095054350004120240320|2023uuuu || |engur|||||||||||Nomadic Connectivity1st ed.De Gruyter20231 online resource (253 p.) ill9783110714807 3110714809 A focus on the everyday has produced this ethnography, which hopes to give a nuanced voice to an extended family of semi-sedentary nomads, living at the centre of a country and region known for its political turmoil, ecological insecurities, and socio-economic hardship. The everyday of the Chadian Walad Djifir is one in which sedentarity and mobility are approached as two entwined parts of a whole, and where economic and geographical boundaries do not necessarily form constrictions. The ferkh (nomadic camp) is where all of the Walad Djifir's networks meet, and often also begin-- a physical place embodying various networks and connections, which span time and geographical space. This analytical and methodological approach gives insight in how regional trends can be understood in light of the Walad Djifir's daily lives. Over time, the Walad Djifir have developed ways of coping and dealing with insecurities, interacting with infrastructural, technological, and socio-political developments in specific ways. In exploring how such insecurities and crises become anchored into the everyday, the ferkh provides answers. It is precisely the mundane elements of daily life which anchor disruption.Social historyAnthropologyAfricaHistorySocial science305.906918096743Inge Butter1818180BOOK9911000367203321Nomadic Connectivity4377196UNINA