The Fixer by Charles Piot
Charles Piot follows a visa broker-known as a fixer-in the West African nation of Togo as he helps his clients apply for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery program.-
Necropolitics
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Brutalism
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The Wombs of Women
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Architecture of Migration
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The Surrounds
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The Colonizing Self
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Beneath the Surface
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Revolution and Disenchantment
- Enacting Decolonization
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Elementary Aspects of the Political
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In the Skin of the City
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Utopia of the Uniform
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The Complete Lives of Camp People
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Experiments with Empire
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Markets of Civilization
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Postcolonial Imperialism
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Senghor: Writings on Politics
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Secularism As Misdirection
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The Visual Afterlife of Abdelkader Bennahar
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An Unformed Map
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Composing Violence
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The Doctor Who Would Be King
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Psychiatric Contours
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Archaism and Actuality
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Naked Agency
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Students of the World
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The Briny South
"Extremely well written, The Fixer is a must-read for those striving for a more equitable world: their advocacy efforts around global mobility and migration cannot be understood divorced from global inequalitiesThe Fixer would be a great read for general readers, migration experts, policymakers, folks involved in advocacy for immigrants and displaced people, and students of immigration and transnational studies, as well as in courses on the challenges and ethics of ethnographic field research. Just a gentle warning — once you start the book, it is hard to put down." -- Faranak Miraftab * International Migration Review *
"The Fixer demonstrates how skillful ethnography can help us better grasp the current political, economic, and cultural dynamics of migration as impacted by understandings of kinship, legitimacy, and local improvisation." -- Dubie Toa-Kwapong * Transforming Anthropology *
"While the key theoretical interventions of the book are spelt out in the introduction, the rest of the book is written in clear prose accessible to academic and non-academic audiences. The book makes a fine contribution to migration studies, economic and legal anthropology, African studies, and US studies; it would be a great case study for graduate and undergraduate courses in these fields." -- Smoki Musaraj * Anthropological Notebooks *
“Scholars of Africa will appreciate how Piot combines his deep regional knowledge of Togo and his ethnographic expertise to highlight the larger global forces that shape the lives of migrant-refugees.”
-- Marius Kothor * African Studies Review *"The Fixer demonstrates how skillful ethnography can help us better grasp the current political, economic, and cultural dynamics of migration as impacted by understandings of kinship, legitimacy, and local improvisation." -- Dubie Toa-Kwapong * Transforming Anthropology *
"While the key theoretical interventions of the book are spelt out in the introduction, the rest of the book is written in clear prose accessible to academic and non-academic audiences. The book makes a fine contribution to migration studies, economic and legal anthropology, African studies, and US studies; it would be a great case study for graduate and undergraduate courses in these fields." -- Smoki Musaraj * Anthropological Notebooks *
Charles Piot is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University; editor of Doing Development in West Africa: A Reader by and for Undergraduates, also published by Duke University Press; and author of Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781478003045 |
| ISBN 10 | 1478003049 |
| Title | The Fixer |
| Author | Charles Piot |
| Series | Theory In Forms |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2019-06-28 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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