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Violence and belonging : the quest for identity in post-colonial Africa
Title
Violence and belonging : the quest for identity in post-colonial Africa / edited by Vigdis Broch-Due.
ISBN
0203499972
0415290066
0415290074
1134437846
1134437889
1134437897
1280224940
6610224943
9780203499979
9780415290067
9780415290074
9781134437849
9781134437887
9781134437894
9781280224942
9786610224944
0203499972
0415290066
0415290074
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 261 pages) : 1 map
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English.
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Summary
Modernisation in Africa has created new freedoms but also new problems. Multiparty democracy, privitisation and structural change have not always created stable and prosperous communities as hoped, and violence continues to be endemic in amny areas of African life - from civil war and political strife to urban, class, ethnic and gender violence. Violence and Belonging explores the crucial, formative role of violence in shaping people's ideas of who they are in uncertain postcolonial contexts. Focusing on fieldwork from across the continent, it asks how everyday violence ties in with wider poli.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Violence and belonging. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
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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