UID:
almafu_9959232897302883
Format:
1 online resource (256 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-43788-9
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9786610224944
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1-134-43789-7
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1-280-22494-0
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0-203-49997-2
Content:
Modernization in Africa has created new problems as well as new freedoms. Multiparty democracy, resource privatization and changing wealth relationships, have not always created stable and prosperous communities, and violence continues to be endemic in many areas of African life - from civil war and political strife to violent clashes between genders, generations, classes and ethnic groups. Violence and Belonging explores the crucial formative role of violence in shaping people's ideas of who they are in uncertain postcolonial contexts where, as resources dwindle and wealth is con
Note:
"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.
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Violence and belonging: analytical reflections /
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"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 /
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Conflicts in context: political violence and anthropological puzzles /
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Hunger, violence and the moral economy of war in Zimbabwe /
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Violence and the boundaries of belonging: comparing two border disputes in the South African lowveld /
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Fertile moral links: reconsidering Barabaig violence /
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"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 /
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The politics of identity and the remembrance of violence: ethnicity and gender at the installation of a female chief in Zimbabwe /
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Double-voiced violence in Kenya /
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Escape from genocide: the politics of identity in Rwanda's massacres /
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Women and the politics of identity: voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission /
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Ambiguous identities: the notion of war and "significant others" among the Tigreans of Ethiopia /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-29006-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-29007-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Fallstudiensammlung
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.4324/9780203499979
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