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Fada: boredom and belonging in Niger

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780226624204, 9780226624341, 9780226624488, 022662448X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1818009 bytes)
Series
Chicago scholarship online
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\261
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

This work is an ethnography of street culture and youth sociality in urban Niger. It explores the universe of fadas, the tea-circles unemployed young men join to deal with boredom and redefine the terms of belonging. Through a focus on the diverse expressions of masculinity that are forged at the fada, it addresses a seeming paradox at the heart of male sociality, namely the fact that tea-circles are simultaneously spaces of inactivity and indolence and forums of creativity and futurity.

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