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Niger

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Abstract:

This article posits that a new and important transformation is occurring in Sahelian society. Westerners have tended to see the rise of “Islamism” as just another rejection of globalization and modernization. This article argues that another interpretation is possible, one that looks at the rise of movements like Izala as an attempt of embryonic Hausa capitalists to become part of globalization by substituting a much more individualized set of beliefs and behaviors for the older social and normative constructs of “traditional” Hausa society that obliged them to limit their accumulation of capital.

Résumé:

Résumé:

La thèse développée dans cet article présume qu'une transformation importante et inédite est en train d'avoir lieu dans la société sahélienne. Les occidentaux ont tendance à considérer la montée de “l'islamisme” uniquement comme un rejet de la mondialisation et de la modernisation parmi tant d'autres. Cet article propose une nouvelle interprétation en faisant l'analogie entre la montée de mouvements comme l'Izala et la manière dont les capitalistes Hausa aux premiers stades de leur développement essaient de s'intégrer au mouvement de la mondialisation en substituant un ensemble de croyances et de comportements bien plus individualisés à des préceptes sociaux et normatifs bien plus vieux de la société “traditionnelle” Hausa qui les obligeait à limiter leur accumulation du capital.

Type
ASR Focus: Islamism in West Africa
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 2004

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