Bush Bound
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-827-4 (ISBN)
Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. ‘Stayers’ thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.
Paolo Gaibazzi is a Social Anthropologist and a Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. In addition to (im)mobility in the Gambia, he has published on West African post-slavery, Euro-African borders and West African Muslim traders in Angola.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Abbreviations
Introduction
From Ploughing the Sea to Navigating the Bush
Soninke Migration and the Young Men Who Stay Put
‘Sitting’: Creating and Inhabiting Immobility
The Onus of Rural Permanence
On Bush-bound Ethnography
Overview of the Book
A Brief Note on The Gambia
Chapter 1. Peasants by Other Means:(Im)mobility and the Making of a Village Mooring
‘Sitting’ Sabi, Creating Movement, 1902 – ca.1945
The Farmer-trader
New Routes and Roots in the Post-war Period
Parting Sedentary and Migrant Livelihoods: 1970s – Present
Bush Troubles: the Decline of the Rural Economy
The Rise of International Labour Migration
Barriers to International Migration
Diasporization, Transnationality and Urban Homes
The Traveller, the ‘Sitter’ and the Urban ‘Sitter’
Chapter 2. Being-on-the-land: The Agri-culture of Migration
Of Bushmen and Moneymen
Earning Calloused Hands: The Embodiment of Rural Suffering
Cultivating an Agrarian Ethos
From Bush to Travel-bush
The Alienation of the Farmer?
Chapter 3. Looking for Money: Livelihood Trajectories in and out of Mobility
The Social Currency of Money
Locating the Bounty: Routes and Destinations
Two Hustlers
Navigating the Political Economy
Stranded in Circulation: From Spurious Travel to ‘Sitting’
Wind in the Sails: the Economy of Support
Chapter 4. Just Sitting: The Spectre of Bare Immobility
Ghetto Youth: (Em)placing Male Sociability
Stilled Bodies and Burdened Heads
The Nerves Syndrome
Waiting: The Stilled Time of Sitting
The Virtue of Patience: Temporal Fixes to Spatial Problems
Chapter 5. Hesitant Patriarchs: Becoming a Household Head
The Ka
Becoming a Kagume: Ascent to Power or Buck Passing?
In a Meal Bowl: Ensuring Subsistence in an Extraverted Domestic Economy
Around a Meal Bowl: Creating Conviviality and Male Authority
Governing Change: Cooperation, Conflict and Translocality in Household Formation
Chapter 6. Civic Leaders? Reviving the Age Groups, Recapturing Permanence
The Sappanu
Youth, in the Active Voice
The Sabi Youth Committee
Quiet Ceremonies: Legal Innovation and Socio-moral Reforms
Conclusion: Possibilities
If…
Placing Immobility in Migration
Trailing on
Glossary
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.06.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78533-827-7 / 1785338277 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78533-827-4 / 9781785338274 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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