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"Vernacularising Modernity?" Rural-Urban Migration and Cultural Transformation in the Northern Mandara Mountains

"Setzt sich die Moderne durch?" Land-Stadt Migration und kulturelle Veränderung im nördlichen Mandara-Gebirge
[journal article]

Chétima, Melchisedek

Abstract

This article explores the different ways in which new houses built by migrants from the Mandara Mountains to bigger cities in Cameroon function as an important site for studying their relations within the cities and within their communities of origin. I argue that these new houses constitute both a ... view more

This article explores the different ways in which new houses built by migrants from the Mandara Mountains to bigger cities in Cameroon function as an important site for studying their relations within the cities and within their communities of origin. I argue that these new houses constitute both a powerful resource for addressing migrants’ stories about their migratory experiences and a constituent element of these experiences. In many circumstances, the migrants interviewed were unable to speak separately of their migratory experiences and their homes. Thus, the impact of their mobility to cities goes far beyond the mere ownership of the houses; they also manage to change their perceptions of themselves, to restructure their models of social interaction with other migrants, and to change the balance of their relations with the village. The article ends by proposing to connect the two sides of the village/city duality to find out how the local is a product of the global and how the local has reappropriated the global, giving it a meaning.... view less


In diesem Artikel untersucht der Autor Narrative um Behausungen, die von Migranten aus dem Mandara-Gebirge in Yaoundé gebaut wurden. Der Autor legt dar, dass diese neuen Häuser sowohl eine bedeutsame Quelle für die Auseinandersetzung mit Migrationserfahrungen als auch ein Bestandteil dieser Erfahrun... view more

In diesem Artikel untersucht der Autor Narrative um Behausungen, die von Migranten aus dem Mandara-Gebirge in Yaoundé gebaut wurden. Der Autor legt dar, dass diese neuen Häuser sowohl eine bedeutsame Quelle für die Auseinandersetzung mit Migrationserfahrungen als auch ein Bestandteil dieser Erfahrungen selbst darstellen. In vielen Fällen waren die befragten Migranten nicht in der Lage, getrennt über ihre Migrationserfahrungen und ihre Häuser zu sprechen. Ihre Mobilität wirkt sich auf die Städte also weit über den bloßen Besitz der Häuser hinaus aus; sie verändern auch ihre Selbstwahrnehmung, das Muster der sozialen Interaktion mit anderen Migranten und das Verhältnis ihrer Beziehungen zum Herkunftsdorf. Der Artikel endet mit dem Vorschlag, die Dorf/Stadt-Dualität zu verbinden, um herauszufinden, wie das Lokale ein Produkt des Globalen ist und wie das Lokale sich das Globale aneignet und ihm eine Bedeutung gibt.... view less

Keywords
Cameroon; migration; rural-urban migration; identity; cultural change; ethnicity; Central Africa

Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Migration, Sociology of Migration

Free Keywords
vernacular modernity; rural-urban migration; cultural transformation; cultural consumption; landesspezifische Moderne; Land-Stadt Migration; kulturelle Veränderung; Konsum

Document language
English

Publication Year
2018

Page/Pages
p. 61-88

Journal
Africa Spectrum, 53 (2018) 1

ISSN
1868-6869

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0


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