Living through Crisis by Lake Chad: Violence, Labor and Resources [Paperback]

INTRODUCTION  PART I - PATTERNS OF ACCUMULATION AND DISPOSSESSION IN THE SAHEL  1. LINES: Rethinking Power Networks, Labor and Resources in the Sahel  2. SPACE, SUBJECTS, GATEWAYS: Forging Techniques of Power in the Sahel  PART II - LIVING THROUGH CRISES BY LAKE CHAD  3. RAIDERS OF THE LOST WEALTH: Accumulation, Dispersal, Dispossession  4. LE D?RAPAGE: The Boko Haram Crisis by Lake Chad  5. NAVIGATING THE MESHWORK: Map-Reading an (Armed) Landscape  PART III - NEGOTIATING LIVELIHOODS AT THE FRONTIER  6. FEAR AND FLOATING, I: Networks, Capital, Power  7. FEAR AND FLOATING, II: Agency, Labor, (Crushed) Utopia  POSTSCRIPT

The book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area. It will be of interest to researchers across African studies, security studies, and political science.

A plethora of literature exists on the Boko Haram crisis in the Lake Chad region of Africa but their contents are based on secondary evidence and focus disproportionally on the Nigerian dimension of the problem with emphasis on the origins, evolution and potential trajectories of the jihadists. The present book looks at the phenomena multidimensionally covering Chad, Cameroun, Niger and Nigeria particularly focusing on the question of what happens when what is perceived by outsiders as crisis is treated as normal by local communities. The author tells the stories of Lake Chad in a refreshing manner that links the past and present of the physical, social, economic and environmental security challenges faced by the people and how the local communities buills