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Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Charles Piot suggests that a new biopolitics after state sovereignty is remaking the face of one of the world's poorest regions. In a country where playing the U.S. Department of State's green card lottery is a national pastime and the preponderance of cybercafés and Western Union branches signals a widespread desire to connect to the rest of the world, Nostalgia for the Future makes clear that the cultural and political terrain that underlies postcolonial theory has shifted. In order to map out this new terrain, Piot enters into critical dialogue with a host of important theorists, including Agamben, Hardt and Negri, Deleuze, and Mbembe. The result is a deft interweaving of rich observations of Togolese life with profound insights into the new, globalized world in which that life takes place.

Postcolonialism --- Africa, West --- Togo --- History --- Internal politics --- Postcolonialisme --- Afrique occidentale --- Histoire --- République du Togo --- République autonome du Togo --- Togolezskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Togolese Republic --- Republic of Togo --- République togolaise --- Togolese Republiek --- Togu --- República Togolesa --- Toqo --- Тога --- Toha --- Тагалеская рэспубліка --- Tahaleskai︠a︡ rėspublika --- Republika Togo --- Republik Togoat --- Того --- Тогоанска република --- Togoanska republika --- Togská republika --- Gweriniaeth Togo --- Togolesische Republik --- Tʼóogo --- Togoleska republika --- Togo Vabariik --- Τόγκο --- Tonko --- Δημοκρατία του Τόγκο --- Dēmokratia tou Tonko --- Togoko Errepublika --- Tóga --- Poblacht Thóga --- Pobblaght ny Togo --- Poblachd Thògo --- Тоhлмудин Орн --- Toḣlmudin Orn --- 토고 --- T'oko (Republic) --- Republik Togo --- Lýðveldið Tógó --- Repubblica Togolese --- טוגו --- רפובליקת טוגו --- Republiḳat Ṭogo --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:327.4H21 --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Kolonisatie / dekolonisatie / post-kolonisatie --- Togoland (French) --- Togoland --- Togoland (British) --- west african history, anthropology, cold war, 20th century, religious phenomena, religion, politics, political science, sociology, neoliberal ngos, pentecostalism, scamming, fraud, emigration, immigration, immigrants, togo, fieldwork, new biopolitics, sovereignty, poorest regions, poverty, green card lottery, us department of state, witchcraft, accusations, western union branches, cybercafes, postcolonial theory, theorists, togolese life.