ISBN:
9780203499979
Language:
French
Pages:
X, 261 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Violence and Belonging : The Quest for Identity in Post-Colonial Africa
DDC:
303.6/096
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Violence and belonging: analytical reflections; 2 '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; 3 Conflicts in context: political violence and anthropological puzzles; 4 Hunger, violence and the moral economy of war in Zimbabwe; 5 Violence and the boundaries of belonging: comparing two border disputes in the South African lowveld; 6 Fertile mortal links: reconsidering Barabaig violence
Description / Table of Contents:
7 '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 South8 The politics of identity and the remembrance of violence: ethnicity and gender at the installation of a female chief in Zimbabwe; 9 Double-voiced violence in Kenya; 10 Escape from genocide: the politics of identity in Rwanda's massacres; 11 Women and the politics of identity: voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Ambiguous identities: the notion of war and 'significant others' among the Tigreans of EthiopiaIndex;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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