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The modernity bluff : crime, consumption, and citizenship in Côte d'Ivoire / Sasha Newell

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012Description: xi, 305 pages illustrations 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226575195
  • 9780226575193
  • 0226575209
  • 9780226575209
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.2350973/091732
Incomplete contents:
Introduction -- Enregistering modernity, bluffing criminality : how Nouchi speech reinvented the nation -- Bizness and "blood brothers" : the moral economy of crime -- Faire le show : masculinity and the performative success of waste -- Fashioning alterity : masking, metonymy, and otherworld origins -- Paris is hard like a rock : migration and the spatial hierarchy of global relations -- Counterfeit belongings : branding the Ivoirian political crisis -- Conclusion : modernity as bluff..
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [275] - 286) and index

Introduction -- Enregistering modernity, bluffing criminality : how Nouchi speech reinvented the nation -- Bizness and "blood brothers" : the moral economy of crime -- Faire le show : masculinity and the performative success of waste -- Fashioning alterity : masking, metonymy, and otherworld origins -- Paris is hard like a rock : migration and the spatial hierarchy of global relations -- Counterfeit belongings : branding the Ivoirian political crisis -- Conclusion : modernity as bluff..