This Handbook provides a multidimensional and interdisciplinary assessment of the West African Sahel region in all of its complexity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Editor's Introduction
- Framing the Sahel: Spaces, Challenges, Encounters
- Section I: The Sahel as Region
- 1: Olivier Walther and Denis Retaillé: Mapping the Sahelian Space
- 2: Gregory Mann: French Colonialism and the Making of the Modern Sahel
- 3: Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan: The Construction of States and Societies in the Sahel
- 4: Augustin Loada: Civil Society and Political Order in the Sahel
- Section II: National Trajectories
- 5: Marie Brossier: Senegal: A Success Story and a Patrimonial Democracy
- 6: Boubacar N'Diaye: Mauritania: Exceptionalism and Vulnerability
- 7: Bruce Whitehouse: Mali: Collapse and Instability
- 8: Ernest Harsch: Burkina Faso: Beyond Autocracy, New Roads Open
- 9: Lisa Mueller: Niger: Precarious Stability
- 10: Ketil Fred Hansen: Chad: Realpolitik and Aspirational Deprivation
- Section III: The Environment and the Challenge of Climate Change
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 11: Suzanne Cotillon, Gray Tappen, and Chris Reij: Land Use Change and Climate-Smart Agriculture in the Sahel
- 12: Sarah McKune: The Challenge of Food and Nutritional Security
- 13: Alisha Graves, Nouhou Abdoul Moumouni, and Malcom Potts: Demography and Health in the Context of Climate Change
- 14: Tor A. Benjaminsen: Climate Change and Human Conflict in the Sahel
- 15: Marjatta Eilittä: Drivers of Growth and Decline in Sahelian Livestock Sectors
- Section IV: The Challenges of Development
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 16: Ahmadou Aly Mbaye and Fatou Guèye: Section editor's Introduction
- 17: Renata Serra: Agricultural Policies and Development in the Sahel
- 18: Isaline Bergamaschi: The Political Economy of Aid in the Sahel
- 19: Giorgio Blundo: Corruption and the State in the Sahel
- Section V: The Challenge of Governing
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 20: Mamadou Bodian and Leonardo A. Villalón: The Democratic Struggle in the Sahel
- 21: Daniel Eizenga: Political Parties and Elite Resilience in Sahelian Politics
- 22: Sebastian Elischer: Militaries in Sahelian Politics
- 23: Cristina Barrios: Security Provision and Counterterrorism in the Sahel
- 24: Roland Marchal: French Interventions in the Sahel
- Section VI: The Intellectual Landscape
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 25: Felwine Sarr: Towards a History of Ideas in the Sahel
- 26: Rahmane Idrissa: Yesterday Meets Tomorrow in Sahelian Intellectual Currents
- 27: Alioune Sow: The Literary History of the Sahel
- Section VII: A Religious Landscape in Flux
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 28: Rüdiger Seesemann: Islamic Intellectual Traditions in the Sahel
- 29: Benjamin Soares: Islam and Muslim Societies in the Contemporary Sahel
- 30: Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim: Jihadist Insurgencies in the Sahel
- 31: Ousseina Alidou: Muslim Women's Social Movements in the Sahel
- 32: Alexander Thurston: Negotiating Secularism in the Sahel
- Section VIII: The Changing Social Mosaic
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 33: Cédric Jourde: Social Stratification in the Sahel
- 34: Fiona Mc Laughlin: The Linguistic Ecology of the Sahel
- 35: Wendy Wilson-Fall: Pastoralist Societies in the Sahel
- 36: Leonardo A. Villalón and Mamadou Bodian: Education, Citizenship, and National Identity in the Sahel
- Section IX: On the Move: Urbanization, Migration, Transnationalism
- Section Editor's Introduction
- 37: Florence Boyer and David Lessault: Urbanization and the Dynamics of Change in the Sahel
- 38: Sylvie Bredeloup: Sahelian Migrations within Africa
- 39: Harouna Mounkaila: Trans-Saharan Migration through and from the Sahel
- 40: Abdoulaye Kane: Sahelian Transnational Networks and Diasporas
