Julien Brachet is a Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of Migrations transsahariennes: Vers un désert cosmopolite et morcelé (2009).
Introduction
1. A never-ending conquest: settlement and the making of a Saharan town
2. Fifty shades of Khaki: armed conflict and other entanglements
3. Trouble in the Palm-Grove: labour, status, ownership
4. Tricks of trade: production, protection and predation
5. Great ploys and small expectations: accumulation and dispersal in a half-world
6. The state encompassed: everyday disorder, the aesthetics of violence, and the political imagination
Conclusion.