Paolo Gaibazzi 
Bush Bound [EPUB ebook] 
Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Abbreviations

Introduction

• From Ploughing the Sea to Navigating the Bush


• Soninke Migration and the Young Men Who Stay Put


• ‘Sitting’: Creating and Inhabiting Immobility


• The Onus of Rural Permanence


• On Bush-bound Ethnography    


• Overview of the Book


• A Brief Note on The Gambia

Chapter 1. Peasants by Other Means:(Im)mobility and the Making of a Village Mooring

• ‘Sitting’ Sabi, Creating Movement, 1902 – ca.1945


• The Farmer-trader


• New Routes and Roots in the Post-war Period


• Parting Sedentary and Migrant Livelihoods: 1970s – Present


• Bush Troubles: the Decline of the Rural Economy


• The Rise of International Labour Migration


• Barriers to International Migration


• Diasporization, Transnationality and Urban Homes


• The Traveller, the ‘Sitter’ and the Urban ‘Sitter’

Chapter 2. Being-on-the-land: The Agri-culture of Migration

• Of Bushmen and Moneymen


• Earning Calloused Hands: The Embodiment of Rural Suffering


• Cultivating an Agrarian Ethos


• From Bush to Travel-bush


• The Alienation of the Farmer?

Chapter 3. Looking for Money: Livelihood Trajectories in and out of Mobility

• The Social Currency of Money


• Locating the Bounty: Routes and Destinations


• Two Hustlers


• Navigating the Political Economy


• Stranded in Circulation: From Spurious Travel to ‘Sitting’


• Wind in the Sails: the Economy of Support

Chapter 4. Just Sitting: The Spectre of Bare Immobility

• Ghetto Youth: (Em)placing Male Sociability


• Stilled Bodies and Burdened Heads


• The Nerves Syndrome


• Waiting: The Stilled Time of Sitting


• The Virtue of Patience: Temporal Fixes to Spatial Problems

Chapter 5. Hesitant Patriarchs: Becoming a Household Head

• The Ka


• Becoming a Kagume: Ascent to Power or Buck Passing?


• In a Meal Bowl: Ensuring Subsistence in an Extraverted Domestic Economy


• Around a Meal Bowl: Creating Conviviality and Male Authority


• Governing Change: Cooperation, Conflict and Translocality in Household Formation

Chapter 6. Civic Leaders? Reviving the Age Groups, Recapturing Permanence

• The Sappanu


• Youth, in the Active Voice


• The Sabi Youth Committee


• Quiet Ceremonies: Legal Innovation and Socio-moral Reforms

Conclusion: Possibilities

• If…


• Placing Immobility in Migration


• Trailing on

Glossary
Bibliography

Paolo Gaibazzi is a Social Anthropologist and a Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. In addition to (im)mobility in the Gambia, he has published on West African post-slavery, Euro-African borders and West African Muslim traders in Angola.