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Christine Fricke

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Protocol, politics and popular culture: the independence jubilee in Gabon

2013

National days are powerful moments of commemoration that aim at renewing the citizens' bonds to the nation and the state. In order to be successful, public rituals need to draw large audiences, and their ceremonial design therefore has to be adapted to suit the masses, employing elements of popular culture and everyday forms of nationhood. Despite drawing its significance from the declaration of independence in 1960, however, Gabon's independence jubilee was less concerned with history and commemoration than with celebrating the state and the nation in the present. The ceremonial design of Gabon's jubilee featured intensive preparations, official ceremonies, popular festivities and symbolic…

education.field_of_studymedia_common.quotation_subjectGeography Planning and DevelopmentPopulationMedia studiesPopular cultureIndependencePoliticsArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)State (polity)Declaration of independenceLawPolitical Science and International RelationsSociologyeducationOrder (virtue)media_commonNations and Nationalism
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The Uncertainty of Oil

2017

This paper argues that uncertainty is intricately entwined with temporalities and aff ects. Taking the uncertain future of oil in Gabon as my ethnographic example, I trace fi ve versions with which people contemplate depletion: a scenario, a vision / plan, a calculation, a dream, and a desire. I show how these versions not only diff er in their prognosis, but also conjure up diverse histories, temporalities and aff ects that, ultimately, entail fairly distinct forms of uncertainty.

Trace (semiology)TemporalitiesHistorymedia_common.quotation_subjectEnvironmental ethicsDreamNatural resourcemedia_commonTSANTSA – Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association
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