Violence and belonging : the quest for identity in post-colonial Africa / / edited by Vigdis Broch-Due.
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| 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. |
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Table of 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 / Bjorn 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.