Risky hearts : Nigerian marketcraft in the global south
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Since the 1990s, bustling markets across Asia and the Middle East have seen an uptick of thousands of African merchant travelers. This dissertation traces how these trans-continental manufacturing and commercial landscapes have been transformed by a key set of actors - a young mercantile generation from the massive petrostate of Nigeria. Drawn from 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork based primarily in the Nigerian megacity of Lagos, as well as eastern Nigeria and the contemporary African trade sites of Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Istanbul (Turkey), and Guangzhou (China), the dissertation analyzes how such south-south mobilities have transformed the politics of commercial space and nationalist imaginaries. First, the dissertation argues that such far-flung commercial mobilities are underpinned by highly decentralized and monopoly-resistant transnational market formations in Nigeria that are defensive against corporate and non-black foreign actors. I employ the concept of marketcraft to highlight the centrality of processes of security and protection in market formation, which are shaped by the affective orientations, ethics, and historical contingencies of the actors and politics that create them. Second, the dissertation examines how Nigerian merchants engage with ethno-regional politics and neo-secessionism upon return and how transnational south-south diasporic formations have transformed Nigerian social imaginaries and discourses of postcolonial political and economic sovereignty.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lu, Vivian Chenxue |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
| Thesis advisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
| Thesis advisor | Ferguson, James, 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- |
| Degree committee member | Ferguson, James, 1959- |
| Degree committee member | Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Vivian Chenxue Lu. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Vivian Chenxue Lu
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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