Violence and belonging : the quest for identity in post-colonial Africa / / edited by Vigdis Broch-Due.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Broch-Due, Vigdis.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 261 p. :; 1 map.
• Notes: "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.
• Other title: Violence and belonging: analytical reflections /; "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 /; Conflicts in context: political violence and anthropological puzzles /; Hunger, violence and the moral economy of war in Zimbabwe /; Violence and the boundaries of belonging: comparing two border disputes in the South African lowveld /; Fertile moral links: reconsidering Barabaig violence /; "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 /; The politics of identity and the remembrance of violence: ethnicity and gender at the installation of a female chief in Zimbabwe /; Double-voiced violence in Kenya /; Escape from genocide: the politics of identity in Rwanda's massacres /; Women and the politics of identity: voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission /; Ambiguous identities: the notion of war and "significant others" among the Tigreans of Ethiopia /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 0415290066 (hdbk. : alk. paper); 0415290074 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0203499972 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Vigdis Broch-Due.