UID:
almahu_9947413088502882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781782041641 (ebook)
Content:
More than any other part of the globe, Africa has become associated with conflict, insecurity and human rights atrocities. In the popular imagination and the media, overpopulation, environmental degradation and ethnic hatred dominate accounts of African violence, while in academic and policy-making circles, conflict and insecurity have also come to occupy centre stage, with resource-hungry warlords and notions of 'greed' and 'grievance' playing key explanatory roles. Since the attacks of 9/11, there has also been mounting concern that the continent's so-called 'ungoverned spaces' will provide safe havens for terrorists intent on destroying Western civilization. The Review of African Political Economy has engaged extensively with issues of conflict and security, both analysing on-going conflicts and often challenging predominant modes of explanation and interpretation. This Review of African Political Economy Reader provides a timely, comprehensive and critical contribution to contemporary debates about conflict and security on the continent. The first section, covers some of the continent's main post-Cold War conflicts and demonstrates their global connections. The articles also discuss the so-called 'resource curse', as well as the global arms trade, and reveal the complexities of the relationship between the economic and the political. The second section focuses on security as part of post-Cold War global governance, and discusses the effects of liberal peace-building as well as the link between development assistance and the 'war on terror'. The final section examines life as it continues in conditions of war and shows how insecurity reconfigures urban space, transforms social order, identities and authority. Rita Abrahamsen is Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada . Published in association with ROAPE. ROAPE African Readers. Series Editors: Tunde Zack-Williams & Ray Bush
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Section 1. Global economies, state collapse & conflicts -- Ironies of Post-Cold War structural adjustment in Sierra Leone -- Timber booms, state busts : the political economy of Liberian timber -- Petro-insurgency or criminal syndicate? conflict & violence in the Niger delta -- Oil as the "curse" of conflict in Africa : peering through smoke and mirrors -- Defence expenditures, arms procurement & corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa. Section 2. Global security governance -- Somalia : "they created a desert & called it peace(building)" -- The Burundi peace negotiations : an African experience in peace-making -- Blair's Africa : the politics of securitisation and fear -- Abductions, kidnappings, and killings in the Sahel and the Sahara. Section 3. Cultures of conflict & insecurity -- The political economy of sacrifice : Kinois & the state -- A city under siege : banditry & modes of accumulation in Nairobi, 1991-2004 -- Cote d'Ivoire : patriotism, ethno-nationalism & other African modes of self-writing -- Beyond civil society : child soldiers as citizens in Mozambique.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781847010780
Language:
English
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782041641/type/BOOK
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