TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brachet,Julien
AU  - Scheele,Judith
TI  - The value of disorder: autonomy, prosperity, and plunder in the Chadian Sahara 
T2  - African studies series
SN  - 9781108428330
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Faya
KW  - history
KW  - economic conditions
KW  - anthropology
KW  - geography
KW  - Chad
KW  - social conditions
KW  - Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti
KW  - internal politics
KW  - government
KW  - armed conflicts
KW  - autonomy
KW  - poverty
KW  - Africa
KW  - Teda (African people)
KW  - Daza (Dazaga-speaking people)
N1  - SIP2201; Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-340) and index
N2  - Despite being central to the development of Saharan regional connectivity, northern Chad has been closed to researchers since the late 1960s and thus remains virtually unknown to scholarship. Based on long-term fieldwork, The Value of Disorder is an original and in-depth account of the area and its Tubu majority inhabitants. Julien Brachet and Judith Scheele examine trans-border connectivity and trade; civil war and rebellion; wealth creation and dispersal; labour and gender relations; and aspirations to moral autonomy in northern Chad from an internal point of view - a point of view that in turn participates in a dynamic process of regional interdependence. Vividly ethnographic, the book gives precedence to local categories of value, while asking broader questions about the nature of non-state regional political organisation. Questions that inform current political developments in the Sahara more widely, and have the potential to challenge key concepts in Saharan studies and the social sciences
ER  -