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The Modernity Bluff takes its place comfortably with the best writing on African youth, cities, and popular culture - Cole . Sasha Newell knows both the contemporary and classic Africanist literatures

The Modernity Bluff takes its place comfortably with the best writing on African youth, cities, and popular culture - Cole, De Boeck, Mbembe, Nyamanjoh, Simone, Weiss, White - and gives an utterly original angle for understanding the cultural underpinnings of the current conflict in Cote d'Ivoire. Sasha Newell knows both the contemporary and classic Africanist literatures.

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In Côte d’Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already .

Such imitation, however, is not primarily meant to deceive-rather, as Sasha Newell argues in The Modernity Bluff, it is an explicit performance so valued in Côte d’Ivoire it has become a matter of national pride

Published: 1 January 2013.

Published: 1 January 2013. by Unit Penerbitan dan Publikasi STIKES Aisyah Pringsewu Lampung. in Global Studies of Childhood. Global Studies of Childhood, Volume 3, pp 201-202; doi:10.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY Sasha Newell. Newell demonstrates that Abidjan functions according to a moral economy in which money is used to navigate one's place in a social hierarchy and to ensure social debts. The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte d'Ivoire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xi + 305 pp. Photographs.

The Modernity Bluff takes its place comfortably with the best writing on African youth, cities, and popular culture - Cole, De Boeck, Mbembe, Nyamanjoh, Simone, Weiss, White - and gives an utterly original angle for understanding the cultural underpinnings of the current conflict in Cote d'Ivoire.

Such imitation, however, is not primarily meant to deceive - rather, as Sasha Newell argues in "The Modernity Bluff", it is an explicit performance so valued in Cote d'Ivoire it has become a matter of national pride

Using the consumption of Western goods to express their cultural mastery over Western taste, Newell argues, bluffeurs engage a global hierarchy that is profoundly modern, one that values performance over authenticity­-highlighting the counterfeit nature of modernity itself.

La Côte d’Ivoire sous Alassane Ouattara. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2011. The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte D’Ivoire. Special Issue of Politique Africaine 148 (2017). ‘On ne mange pas les ponts et le goudron’: les sentiers sinueux d’une sortie de crise en Côte d’Ivoire. Politique Africaine 148 (2017): 5–26. CrossRefGoogle Scholar. An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya.

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