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Foreword / Jean and John Comaroff, Harvard University, USA -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Everyday State and Democracy in Africa / Wale Adebanwi -- ID-Cards and Social Class: The Intensification of the Bifurcated State in South Sudan / Ferenc Da̹vid Marko̹ -- Paper Games: Consularity and Ersatz Lives in Urban Lagos / Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare -- Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance in Kenya: Dagahaley Refugee Camp / Fred Ikanda -- Inside the Anti-Politics Machine: Civil Society Mediation of Everyday Encounters with the State / Elizabeth Fouksman -- Lateral Futurity: The Nigerian State as Infrastructural Enigma / Ulrika Trovalla and Eric Trovalla -- Gazomania! Shortage and the State in Chad / Lori Leonard -- Politics of Patience: Acceptance, Agency and Compliance in Rwanda / Rose L©ıvgren -- The Golem State: Police Violence Old and New in South Africa / Nicholas Rush Smith -- Encountering the State in Times of Terror: Subjects and Subjectivities in the Nigerian War Against Boko Haram / Daniel Agbiboa -- Fishing Nets, Kabila's Eyes and Voter's Cards: Citizen-State Mediations in the Congo (2002-2019) / Katrien Pype -- Encountering Cameroon's Garrison State: Checkpoints, Expectations of Democracy, and the Anglophone Revolt / Rogers Orock -- Disputing Democracy and Challenging the State in Mozambique / Justin Pearce -- The Intimate State: Ethiopian Civics Teachers as the Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution / Jennifer Riggan -- The State and 'Its responsibilities': School, Welfare State and Community Building in Lubumbashi (Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo) / Edoardo Quaretta -- Fragile Relationships: Elusive encounters with public services in rural Burkina Faso / Helle Samuelsen -- Afterword: Postcolonial Powerscapes / Victoria Bernal.

The madman and the migrant
This essay explores the nature of historical consciousness, and its relation to culture, among the Tshidi-Barolong, a South African Tswana people. On the basis of the imagery of two informats -a "madman" and a former migrant laborer- it examines not merely the content of Tshidi consciousness, but also its expressive forms. These differ from the narrative modes of representation associated with "history" in Western contexts, and build on various poetic devices - most strikingly, on the rhetoric of contrast. Thus the opposed concepts of work and labor, one associated with setswana (Tswana ways) and the other with sekgoa (European ways), are major tropes through which Tshidi construct their past and present. Such rhetorical forms appear, on examination, to occur widely in situations of rapid change. As a resuit, this excursion into the poetics of history illuminates very generai questions concerning the connection between consciousness, culture, and representation.

"In the economics of everyday life, even ethnicity has become a potential resource to be tapped, generating new sources of profit and power, new ways of being social, and new visions of the future. Throughout Africa, ethnic corporations have been repurposed to do business in mining or tourism; in the USA, Native American groupings have expanded their involvement in gaming, design, and other industries; and all over the world, the commodification of culture has sown itself deeply into the domains of everything from medicine to fashion. Ethnic groups increasingly seek empowerment by formally incorporating themselves, by deploying their sovereign status for material ends, and by copyrighting their cultural practices as intellectual property. Building on ethnographic case studies from Kenya, Nepal, Peru, Russia, and many other countries, this collection poses the question: Does the turn to the incorporation and commodification of ethnicity really herald a new historical moment in the global politics of identity?"--

On sait que Walter Benjamin insista sur le fait que la police exerçait une violence « fantomatique », omniprésente dès lors que l'État n'était pas en mesure de gouverner par des moyens légaux. De nos jours, certaines anciennes colonies africaines sont hantées par un spectre différent : le déclin de l'efficacité d'exécution, l'ambiguïté de l'autorité et la peur que l'État, dans un futur proche, devienne incapable de reconnaître ses institutions et ses citoyens. Cet article analyse la relation problématique entre droit, détection et souveraineté dans les politiques africaines, et notamment dans le cas de l'Afrique du Sud postcoloniale. Il traite plus précisément des « métaphysiques du désordre », une dimension tangible dans la culture populaire sud-africaine. Il s'intéresse également aux fantasmes légaux que cette métaphysique engendre.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming -- Millennial Transitions -- Toward a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature -- Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society -- The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras -- Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool) -- Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging -- Millennial Coal Face -- Modernity's Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand -- Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan -- Millenniums Past, Cuba's Future? -- Consuming Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia -- Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils -- Contributors -- Index

"The radically humanistic essays of Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Creatively assembled around Arthur Kleinman's medical anthropological arc and eschewing hegemonic modes of intervention, they advance the notion of a care-ful ethnographic praxis of interference. To interfere is to dislodge ideals of naturalness, blast enduring binaries (human-nonhuman, self-other, us-them), and redirect technocratic agendas while summoning relational knowledge and the will to create community. The book's multiple ethnographic arcs of interference provide a vital conceptual toolkit for today's world and a badly needed moral perch to peer toward just horizons. Contributors. Vincanne Adams, João Biehl, Davíd Carrasco, Lawrence Cohen, Jean Comaroff, Robert Desjarlais, Paul Farmer, Marcia Inhorn, Janis H. Jenkins, David S. Jones, Salmaan Keshavjee, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Adriana Petryna"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Power Revealed and Concealed in the NewWorld Order -- 1 Gods, Markets, and the IMF in the Korean Spirit World -- 2 ''Diabolic Realities'': Narratives of Conspiracy, Transparency, and ''Ritual Murder'' in the Nigerian Popular Print and Electronic Media -- 3 ''Who Rules Us Now?'' Identity Tokens, Sorcery, and Other Metaphors in the 1994 Mozambican Elections -- 4 Through a Glass Darkly: Charity, Conspiracy, and Power in New Order Indonesia -- 5 Invisible Hands and Visible Goods: Revealed and Concealed Economies in Millennial Tanzania -- 6 Stalin and the Blue Elephant: Paranoia and Complicity in Post-Communist Metahistories -- 7 Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Hegemony in American Politics -- 8 Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power -- 9 Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America -- Transparent Fictions; or, The Conspiracies of a Liberal Imagination: An Afterword -- Contributors -- Index