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Article Dans Une Revue Politique africaine Année : 2018

Marginal taxation made to measure: The political economy of natron in Borkou, Chad

Fiscalité marginale sur mesure. L'économie politique du natron au Borkou, Tchad

Résumé

Natron is mined by hand in open-air mines throughout the Chadian Sahara. In the main mine in Borkou, it is taxed by a local “traditional chief” as well as by a government representative. The way this fiscal arrangement came about historically shows how “traditional chiefs” and “the state” need each other in order to claim a particular and particularly restricted kind of sovereignty in the region. This is true of the Chadian state more generally, marked by a doubling up of “official” and “traditional” administrative hierarchies, and a close but rarely simple articulation of the local and the national level.

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hal-03360672 , version 1 (30-09-2021)

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Julien Brachet, Judith Scheele. Fiscalité marginale sur mesure. L'économie politique du natron au Borkou, Tchad. Politique africaine, 2018, 151 (3), pp.39. ⟨10.3917/polaf.151.0039⟩. ⟨hal-03360672⟩
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