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Violence and belonging the quest for identity in post-colonial Africa

Title
Violence and belonging [electronic resource] : the quest for identity in post-colonial Africa / edited by Vigdis Broch-Due.
ISBN
0415290066 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
0415290074 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0203499972 (electronic : alk. paper)
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Physical Description
x, 261 p. : 1 map.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"Most of the chapters of this volume come from a larger collection of papers produced for a conference held in 2000 under the auspices of the Research Programme 'Poverty and Prosperity in Africa: Local and Global Perspectives' at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden"--Pref.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Violence and belonging: analytical reflections / Vigdis Broch-Due
"Nowadays they can even kill you for that which they feel is theirs": gender and the production of ethnic identity in Kikuyu-speaking Central Kenya / Amrik Heyer
Conflicts in context: political violence and anthropological puzzles / Harri Englund
Hunger, violence and the moral economy of war in Zimbabwe / Jocelyn Alexander, Jo Ann McGregor
Violence and the boundaries of belonging: comparing two border disputes in the South African lowveld / Isak Niehaus
Fertile moral links: reconsidering Barabaig violence / Astrid Blystad
"Food itself is fighting with us": a comparative analysis of the impact of Sudan's civil war on South Sudanese civilian populations located in the North and the South / Sharon Elaine Hutchinson
The politics of identity and the remembrance of violence: ethnicity and gender at the installation of a female chief in Zimbabwe / Björn Lindgren
Double-voiced violence in Kenya / John G. Galaty
Escape from genocide: the politics of identity in Rwanda's massacres / Johan Pottier
Women and the politics of identity: voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Fiona C. Ross
Ambiguous identities: the notion of war and "significant others" among the Tigreans of Ethiopia / Kjetil Tronvoll.
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Broch-Due, Vigdis.
ebrary, Inc.
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