The modernity bluff
Subtitle: crime, consumption, and citizenship in Côte d'Ivoire
By: Sasha Newell
Publisher: London; The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226575193; 9780226575209
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Urban youth; Social status
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Enregistering modernity, bluffing criminality : how nouchi speech reinvented the nation; title: Bizness and "blood brothers" : the moral economy of crime; title: Faire le show : maquis masculinity and the performative success of waste; title: Fashioning alterity : masking, metonymy, and otherworld origins; title: Paris is hard like a rock : migration and the spatial hierarchy of global relations; title: Counterfeit belongings : branding the Ivoirian political crisis; title: Conclusion : modernity as bluff.