Florian Köhler, "Space, Place and Identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century" (Berhahn Book, 2020)
New Books in Geography
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The Relation of Space, Place and Identity in the Woldop
In your book you look at spatialization, place making and identity formation among this group of Woldop. Could you explain a bit some of the main questions that you are investigating in your research or that you are interested in investigating? Let me maybe start with how I came to develop these questions because you might know that also sometimes the exact research questions aren't there at the outset of your research but they develop gradually over time. Over time it just developed into a friendship and they also got me in contact with their pastoral families which is why I had to look into that pastoral life that is still nomadic.
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