Format:
xv, 342 Seiten
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Karten
ISBN:
9781349950126
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9781349950133
Content:
This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on 'crises' in this book draws attention to the intense socio-transformations in the region over the last three decades. Contemporary crises and changes in the region provoke a challenge to accepted ways of understanding and imagining socio-political life in the region - whether at the level of subnational and national communities, or international and regional structures of interest, such as refugees, weapon trafficking, cross-border military incursions, regional security, and transnational epidemics. This book explores and transcends the central explanatory tropes that have oriented research on the region and re-evaluates them in the light of the contemporary structural dynamics of crises, changes and continuities
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Deconstructing Tropes of Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
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pt. I (Re-)Configurations of Identifications and Alliances ; 2. Poro Society, Migration, and Political Incorporation on the Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone
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3. Challenging the Classical Parameters of "Doing Host -- Refugee Politics": The Case of Casamance Refugees in The Gambia
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4. Betterment Versus Complicity: Struggling with Patron -- Client Logics in Sierra Leone
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5. Kinship Tropes as Critique of Patronage in Postwar Sierra Leone
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pt. II Challenging Conventions of Explaining and Situating Violent Conflict ; 6. Grand Narratives of Crisis: Customary Conflicts as a Factor in the Liberian Civil War and Implications for Policy
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7. Historicizing as a Legal Trope of Jeopardy in Asylum Narratives and Expert Testimonies of Gender-Based Violence
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8. Revisiting Tropes of Environmental and Social Change in Casamance, Senegal
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9. Casamance Secession: National Narratives of Marginalization and Integration
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pt. III (Re-)Contextualizing Postcolonial Statehood and National Belonging ; 10. Transcending Traditional Tropes: Autochthony as a Discourse of Conflict and Integration in Postwar Krio/Non-Krio Relations in Sierra Leone
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11. Ethnicity as Trope of Political Belonging and Conflict: Cape Verdean Identity and Agency in Guinea-Bissau
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12. Dynamics in the Host -- Stranger Paradigm: The Broker Role of a Latecomer Association in Western Cote d'Ivoire
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pt. IV (Re-)Conceptualizing Development and Intervention ; 13. Roads as Imaginary for Employing Idle Youth in the Post-Conflict Liberian State
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14. Tropes, Networks, and Higher Education in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone: Policy Formation at the University of Makeni
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15. Bulletproofing: Small Arms, International Law, and Spiritual Security in the Gambia
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781349950133
Language:
English
Keywords:
Golf von Guinea
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Politik
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Gesellschaft
URL:
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-349-95013-3
Author information:
Knörr, Jacqueline 1960-
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