Violence and belonging the quest for identity in post-colonial Africa / edited by Vigdis Broch-Due.
| Other author | Broch-Due, Vigdis. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, |
| Description | x, 261 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Violence and belonging: analytical reflections / Vigdis Broch-Due -- "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 / Amrik Heyer -- Conflicts in context: political violence and anthropological puzzles / Harri Englund -- Hunger, violence and the moral economy of war in Zimbabwe / Jocelyn Alexander, Jo Ann McGregor -- Violence and the boundaries of belonging: comparing two border disputes in the South African lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Fertile moral links: reconsidering Barabaig violence / Astrid Blystad -- "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 / Sharon Elaine Hutchinson -- The politics of identity and the remembrance of violence: ethnicity and gender at the installation of a female chief in Zimbabwe / Björn Lindgren -- Double-voiced violence in Kenya / John G. Galaty -- Escape from genocide: the politics of identity in Rwanda's massacres / Johan Pottier -- Women and the politics of identity: voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Fiona C. Ross -- Ambiguous identities: the notion of war and "significant others" among the Tigreans of Ethiopia / Kjetil Tronvoll. |
| General 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004009258 |
| ISBN | 0415290066 (hdbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415290074 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0203499972 (electronic : alk. paper) |
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