Vigdis Broch-Due

Violence and Belonging

The Quest for Identity in Post-Colonial Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Modernization in Africa has created new freedoms but also new problems. Multiparty democracy, privitisation and structural change have not always created stable and prosperous communities as hoped, and violence continues to be endemic in amny areas of African life - from civil war and political strife to urban, class, ethnic and gender violence. Violence and Belonging explores the crucial, formative role of violence in shaping people's ideas of who they are in uncertain postcolonial contexts. Focusing on fieldwork from across the continent, it asks how everyday violence ties in with wider political upheaval, and analyses examples of violence to reveal its links with broader cultural values and identity politics. The Zimbabwean and Sudanese civil wars, Kenyan Kikuyu domestic conflicts, the Rwandan massacres and South African Truth and Reconciliation processes are among the contexts explored. Vigdis Broch-Due, Amrik Heyer, Harri Englund, Jocelyn Alexander and Jo Ann McGregor, Isak Niehaus, Astrid Blystad, Sharon Elaine Hutchinson, Bjorn Lindgren, John G. Galaty, Johan Pottier, Fiona C Ros

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780415290067
• ISBN-10: 0415290066
• Artikelnr.: 21291488

Autorenporträt

Vigdis Broch-Due is a professor in the Centre for International Poverty Research, University of Bergen, Norway. She has taught at the universities of Washington, Oslo, Cambridge and London, as well as at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface List of Contributors 1. Violence and Sociality Reconsidered: An
Introduction 2. '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 3. Conflicts in Context: Political Violence and
Anthropological Puzzles 4. Hunger, Violence and the Moral Economy of War in
Zimbabwe 5. Violence and the Boundaries of Belonging: Comparing Two Border
Disputes in the South African Lowveld 6. Fertile Moral Links: Reconsidering
Barabaig Violence 7. '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 8. The Politics of Identity
and the Remembrance of Violence and Gender at the Installation of a Female
Chief in Zimbabwe 9. Double-Voiced Violence in Kenya 10. Escape from
Genocide: The Politics of Identity in Rwanda's Massacres 11. Women and the
Politics of Identity: Voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation
12. Ambiguous Identities: Notioa of War and 'Significant Others' among the
Tigreans of Ethiopia