Andrea Behrends

Travelling models : introducing an analytical concept to globalisation studies

The introductory chapter presents an overview of concepts covered in this book Travelling Models in African Conflict Management . The book examines how travelling models shape global processes of change in the field of conflict management. Two of the principal questions addressed in the book are the following: How is change in one place related to developments in other places? And, why are certain issues that are important in one place taken up in other places, while others are not? The book examines how travelling models enact changes in conflict situations in unexpected ways. They look at what happens when a model has been put into practice at a conflict site, and they pay attention to the forms of (re-)ordering resulting from this process. The book explains the travel of models in conflict management with the aim of exploring the production of order and disorder they trigger in various contexts. Keywords: African conflict management; travelling models

'POGMINGA'-THE 'PROPER DAGARA WOMAN': AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT AND DAGARA CONCEPTS'

To retain respect among members of their own society, urban professional women originating from northern Ghana maintain a rural concept of proper women. This article explores how, historically, both Catholic missionaries and the Dagara people changed this concept. To the women, the ability to speak their minds and be self-confident, attributes accorded to the concept mainly by the Catholic womens orders, help them in their professional careers. In meetings with their own people, they still know how to revert to the quiet, reserved and humble person that a woman from their home area is supposed to be, at least in public.

Kein Segen, nirgends

Die alte landwirtschaftliche Produktionsweise mit der neuen Erdolforderung zu verbinden — darauf setzt die politische Klasse im zentralafrikanischen Tschad. Doch die Erdolwirtschaft fordert einen hohen Preis: vergiftete Boden, ausgehohltes Landrecht und gesellschaftliche Verwerfungen. Ethnologen beobachten ein Land im sozialen und kulturellen Umbruch.