Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum

From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen (eBook, ePUB)

How Notions of Professionalism and Civility Transformed the Ghana Armed Forces

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on unprecedented access to the Ghanaian military barracks and inspired by the recent resurgence of coups in West Africa, Agyekum assesses why and how the Ghana Armed Forces were transformed from an organization that actively orchestrated coups into an institution that accepts the authority of the democratically elected civilian government. Focusing on the process of professionalization of the Ghanaian military, this ethnography based monograph examines both historical and contemporary themes, and assesses the shift in military personnel from 'Buga Buga' soldiers - uneducated, lower-class soldiers, human rights abusers - to a more 'modern' fighting force.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789202953
• Artikelnr.: 57113088

Autorenporträt

Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum graduated in African Studies at Leiden University in 2011, where he studied political violence and insecurity and their implications on young people's future planning in post-conflict Guinea-Bissau. In 2016, he received his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Currently, the author is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Breakdown of Everydayness
Chapter 2. On Hierarchy and Trust: 'Monkeys Play by Sizes'
Chapter 3. On discipline: Disciplining the Body and the Mind
Chapter 4. New Soldiers on the Block: From Buga-Buga Soldier to Disciplined
Soldier Subjects
Chapter 5. Factors of Continual Subjection
Chapter 6. Transformation in Broad Perspective: Professionalism, Civility
and Civil-Military Relations
Conclusion
References
Index