Vigdis Broch-Due

Violence and Belonging (eBook, ePUB)

The Quest for Identity in Post-Colonial Africa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Violence and Belonging explores the formative role of violence in shaping people's identities in modern postcolonial Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134437887
• Artikelnr.: 47885356

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