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This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In today's world where people navigate unprecedented transformations in communication, alongside record movements often spurred on by armed conflict, how do (forcibly) displaced and migrant women manage new communication technologies, and how do these technologies affect their roles, relationships, and identities? How do these women's communicative practices connect to memory, voice, and armed...
The Defence of Gagadama: Siege Warfare and Ethnographic Knowledge (2013)
The extension of European rule into the southern Lake Chad Basin was one phase in a process of impingement into the area of globalising systems of power and connection that began centuries earlier. It contributed to the disruption of indigenous systems of regional domination, but took place sporadically, especially in the rugged and densely populated terrain of the Mandara Mountains. One significant episode in that process was the First World War siege of a German military unit along the...