Being available and reachable: new media and Cameroonian transnational sociality
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Being Available and Reachable:
New Media and Cameroonian
Transnational Sociality
Primus Mbeanwoah Tazanu
Langaa Research amp; Publishing CIG
Mankon, Bameiula
Table of Contents
Acknowledgment vii
Abstract ix
List of Acronyms xi
Location of Field Sites xiii
List of Figures xvii
Introduction to Being Available and Reachable xix
Chapter I: Ethnographic Background 1
Introduction 1
Colonial History: Coastal Plantations and Migration 2
Meaning of Migration and Staying Back 9
Plantation Workers, Practices of Remittances and Conflicts 11
Ties After Migration: Rural-urban Linkages and Solidarities 15
Brief History of Contemporary Migration Out of Cameroon 19
Telephone and Internet History in Cameroon 21
Chapter II: Theoretical and Conceptual Framework 25
Introduction 25
Anthropological Approach to New Media and Relationships 25
Connectedness, Closeness and Instant Sociality 27
New Media and Transnationalism 28
New Media and Social Liveness 30
Conclusion 34
Chapter III: Methodology 35
Introduction 35
Fieldwork in Freiburg 35
Access, Credibility and Ethical Considerations 36
Fieldwork in Buea 40
Access, Credibility and Ethical Considerations 41
Research Participants, Methods and Types of Data 44
Reflections on the Tandem Model 48
Position as Researcher 51
Multi-sited Ethnography: Integrating Results from Different Sites 54
Conclusion 56
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Chapter IV: Sensory Experiences and Selected Practices of Cross-
Border Sociality 57
Introduction 57
Expectations and the Compulsions to Get in Touch 58
The 'Feel' of the Media and Choice: Internet, Mobile Phones and
Calls 61
Selected Practices of Transnational Sociality 67
Beeping: Wordless Sociality 69
Call Requests and Promises: 'Call me Back' and 'I'll (all you Back' 79
Bush and Pays Calls: Answer and Talk 83
New Media Literacy and Sociality 93
Conclusion 98
Chapter V: New Media Technology' and Sociality 101
Introduction 101
Sociality, Cost and Access to Technology 102
Spaces of Sociality 108
The Cyber Cafes 110
The Call Centres 120
Placeless Spaces 122
Call Boxes 124
(all Cards in Freiburg 129
Conclusion 135
Chapter VI: Visual Imagery, Virtuality and Trans-border
Imaginations 137
Introduction 137
Migrant-focused Visual Imagery 138
Bush Photos, Success, Denials and Concealments 139
Urban Visibility of Returned and Visiting Migrants 144
Summing up Visual I rnagery 148
On Virtuality: Deceit and Suspicion? 149
Not Being There, 'Truth' and Rationality in Deceit 150
Deceit and the Person 155
The Nation-state, Imaginations of Distance and Sociality 156
Conclusion 161
IV
Chapter VII: Social Closeness, Distance and Discontent 163
Introduction 163
Social Distance, Friendship and Family Ties 164
Friendship: Bushfallers, Relationships and Break-ups 167
Family Examples: A Family within the Family 176
Sharing Contacts: The Glee and Pain of Numbers , 180
Experiences of Power Asymmetries 186
Opportunism in Mediated Ties 191
The Burden of'False' Impressions: 1 ocus on Non-migrant
Youths 194
Conclusion 196
Chapter VIII: New Media and Material Expression of Transnational
Social Ties :199
Introduction 199
Morality and Obligation: 'Settling' N m-migrants 201
The 'Right' to Request 201
Obligation to Support, Guilt and Duress' 206
Morally-correct Requests 210
Consciousness of Economic Position 214
On Pride, Dignity and Remittances 215
Unspoken but Covert Expectations 218
Expectations and Disenchantment 222
Illusions of Life Transformation 224
New Media, Investment and Scepticism 230
Demands for Instant Solutions: '\Xe do not have Immediate Solutions
here' 238
Family Squabbles 242
Irritated Predator? A Recent Migrant Complains 249
Conclusion 252
Chapter IX: Conclusion and Suggestions 255
Thinking beyond Calls 255
Being Available and Reachable 256
New Media, Inequality and Sociality 259
New Media, Bind and Grind of Relationships 262
Conclusion 266 |
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