Charles Piot, On leave 08-09
| Office Location: | 214 Science Building |
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Typical Courses Taught:
- Aas 122, Culture and politics in africa
- Ca 284s, Transnationalism and public culture
- Aas 299, Race/memory/reparation
- Aas 192, African diaspora
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Virginia 1986
- M.A. University of Virginia 1982
- B.A. Princeton University 1973
- Specialties:
- Transnationalism
- Political Economy
- Post Colonialism
- Popular Culture
- Africa
- African Diaspora
Research Interests:
Charlie Piot does research on histories of slavery and colonialism, as well as on contemporary culture and politics, in rural West Africa. His book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999), attempts to retheorize a classic out-of-the-way place as within the modern and the global. A forthcoming book, Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa After the Cold War, explores the way in which human rights discourse, democratization, NGOs, and charismatic Christianity are remaking sovereignty, the biopolitical, and political culture in West Africa. Ongoing research explores West African expatriates in the US and Europe, examining the way in which exile reshapes questions of citizenship, sovereignty and national belonging.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- C. Piot. "KC's World." Transforming Anthropology vol. 15 no. 2 (2007): 158-166. [PDF]
- C. Piot. Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. (Co-winner, Amaury Talbot Prize for Africanist Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute, 1999; Finalist, Herskovits Prize, African Studies Association, 2000; French translation - "Isolement Global: la Modernite du Village au Togo" - Karthala Press, 2008)
- C. Piot. "Des cosmopolites dans la brousse." Les Temps Modernes vol. 57 no. 620-21 ( 2002): 240-260.
- C. Piot. "Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy's Black Atlantic." South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 100 no. 1 ( 2001): 155-170.
- C. Piot. "Of Hybridity, Modernity and their Malcontents: Reflections on John and Jean Comaroff's "Of Revelation and Revolution"." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 2 vol. 3 no. 1 ( 2001): 112-118.
- C. Piot. "Heat on the Street: Video Violence in American Teen Culture." Journal of Postcolonial Studies vol. 6 no. 3 ( 2003): 351-365.