The Attempt to Stay

Valerie Hänsch is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Anthropological Museum in Berlin, Germany. As a visual anthropologist, she has produced several collaborative ethnographic films. Her film “Sifinja – The Iron Bride” (2009) has been awarded several prizes. She is co-editor of the special journal issue Temporalities of Waiting in Africa (Critical African Studies, 2020).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on the Text

Abbreviations

Chronology

General Maps



Introduction



Chapter 1. Interwoven Spaces and Perspectives

Chapter 2. Staying in the Homeland: From a Vision to Political Mobilization

Chapter 3. Looming Destruction and Displacement

Chapter 4. Makeshift Arrangements

Chapter 5. Makeshift Lives

Chapter 6. The Re-Formation of Life: Possibilities and Processes



Conclusion



Postscript

Glossary

References

Index