The present work unfolds along a socio-historical analysis of current events, specifically the murder of a young man in a royal building in Northern Cameroon. Our exchanges with local residents on social networks (WhatsApp, Facebook) between 2017 and 2022, coupled with a conceptual analysis of lamidism – understood here as a full-fledged governance system – also served the empirical trajectory of our analysis. In order to establish a singular conceptualization of what we call ‘lamidality of power,’ this article operates in three stages. First, it revisits the socio-historical conditions that led to the emergence of lamidism in Northern Cameroon. Then, it analyzes the strategies implemented by power to impose this epistemic and political vision of sovereign exercise in Northern Cameroon. Finally, we discuss the importance of specifying the very concept of lamidism to better understand its contemporary extensions and updates.
With the rise of the coronavirus crisis, "social distancing," has emerged as a new buzzword. Politicians, journalists, commentators, news readers, senior executives, and experts use this term blindly. However, scrutinizing the word reveals a terminological mismatch between "physical distancing" and "social distancing." While revisiting the history of physical distancing and social distancing, this article attempts to show how the term "social distancing" moved through time and winded up floating in the atmosphere. This study is based on Critical race theory, which has as its aim to uncover the ideologies that have been constructed to perpetuate the oppression of some social categories on the fallacious pretext of race superiority and purity. After going down to the ancient roots of physical distancing practices, this work will recall social distancing behaviors during the slave trade era before delving into the current confusion between both terms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This work stresses the importance of social scientists to assess some official terminologies before their popularization. Keywords: Social distancing, physical distancing, buzzwords, Black, racism, smell
B eijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Center provides a unique look into the fragile livelihoods of what the author Harriet Evans refers to as the "subalterns of history" via profiles of inhabitants of the Dashalar area in Beijing's central district. Using subaltern historical accounts, the author seeks to challenge the dominant narrative of the Chinese communist party's success story. Her findings contradict the widely held belief that urban poverty was practically non-existent during the Maoist era because the government provided some form of assistance to every citizen, resulting in a society where everyone was treated fairly and equally. As per this storyline, urban poverty is a product of economic liberalization, which has resulted in an increased social and economic difference in metropolitan areas. Contrary to this perspective, historical accounts of minority personal experiences like those Evans has documented in her book show this prevailing worldview to be exaggerated. Discrimination against Dashalar people in Beijing demonstrates how the borders of regional and native place identification, as well as their intersection with class, are inextricably linked to deeply established structures and attitudes of inequality and contempt among China's Han population. Evans argues that inhabitants' claims of local identity do not reflect a sentimental attachment to the past, but rather a rejection of exclusion and a yearning for acknowledgement. Evans challenges official narratives of China's socioeconomic development by raising critical issues about the subaltern's role in history by focusing on the experiences of the Dashalar's elderly residents.Evans' research methodology, based on an empirical study undertaken between 2007 and 2014, incorporates document analysis, fieldwork, and historical accounts to create a cohesive whole. A total of seven chapters are
Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology which aims at getting insights into people's lives through interaction and collaboration between the researcher and the researched mediated by a camera. This study which is based on document analysis and a two-week fieldwork in a high school, tries to retrace the evolution of shared anthropology from the fore fathers to its current developments and implementations. First of all, the founding principles of anthropology contributed to the underestimation of the camera in scientific research. Then, in the 1950s, contrary to the reifying perspectives of the first anthropologists influenced by positivism and structuralism, Jean Rouch orients anthropology towards a new approach by introducing the concept of shared anthropology.
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