Charles Piot, Associate Professor
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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. He is currently engaged in several new projects. One explores the way in which (post-Cold War) human rights discourse, democratization, development, and charismatic Christianity are articulating with West African political cultures. A second tracks global discourses about female genital cutting from Western courtrooms and media into the capitals and villages of West Africa. A third 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 en Afrique de l'Ouest" - forthcoming from Karthala Press, 2007)
- 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.