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Kaarsholm, Preben
ISBN: 9780896802513
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Ohio University Press
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Africa has witnessed a number of transitions to democracy in recent years. Coinciding with this upsurge in democratic transitions have been spectacular experiences of social disintegration. An alternative to discourses of the 0;failed1; and 0;collapsed1; state in Africa is an approach that takes seriously the complex historical processes underlying the political development of individual nation states. The chapters in this volume throw light on the ways in which violence…
Africa has witnessed a number of transitions to democracy in recent years. Coinciding with this upsurge in democratic transitions have been spectacular experiences of social disintegration. An alternative to discourses of the 0;failed1; and 0;collapsed1; state in Africa is an approach that takes seriously the complex historical processes underlying the political development of individual nation states. The chapters in this volume throw light on the ways in which violence, political culture, and development have interacted in recent African history.
| ISBN | 0896802515 | | DEWEY | 303.609 | | ISBN13 | 9780896802513
(What's this?) | | Pages | 208 | | Publisher | Ohio University Press | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | OHIO UNIV PR | | Weight (grammes) | 359 | | Format | Paperback | | Series ISSN | 6 | | Publication date | 01 Nov 2006 | | Height (mm) | 239 | | Library of Congress | DT | | Width (mm) | 153 |
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| 1 | | States of failure, societies in collapse? : understandings of violent conflict in Africa by Preben Kaarsholm | | 1 | | 2 | | Insurgencies in the shadow of state collapse by William Reno | | 25 | | 3 | | A societal view on violence & war : conflict & militia formation in eastern Congo by Koen Vlassenroot | | 49 | | 4 | | Debating the Rwandan genocide by Nigel Eltringham | | 66 | | 5 | | Darfur : peace, genocide & crimes against humanity in Sudan by Douglas H. Johnson | | 92 | | 6 | | Legacies of violence in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe by Jocelyn Alexander | | 105 | | 7 | | The past as contested terrain : commemorating new sites of memory in war-torn Ethiopia by Alessandro Triulzi | | 122 | | 8 | | Violence as signifier : politics & generational struggle in KwaZulu-Natal by Preben Kaarsholm | | 139 | | 9 | | War, violence & videotapes : media & localised ideoscapes of the liberian Civil War by Mats Utas | | 161 | | 10 | | Forced labour & civil war : agrarian underpinnings of the Sierra Leone conflict by Paul Richards | | 181 |
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