Introduction
Enregistering modernity, bluffing criminality : how Nouchi speech reinvented the nation
Bizness and "blood brothers" : the moral economy of crime
Faire le show : masculinity and the performative success of waste
Fashioning alterity : masking, metonymy, and otherworld origins
Paris is hard like a rock : migration and the spatial hierarchy of global relations
Counterfeit belongings : branding the Ivoirian political crisis
Conclusion : modernity as bluff
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