States of violence : politics, youth, and memory in contemporary Africa /
States of violence : politics, youth, and memory in contemporary Africa /
edited by Edna G. Bay and Donald L. Donham.
- ix, 268 pages ; 25 cm.
- Carter G. Woodson Institute series .
- Carter G. Woodson Institute series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Edna G. Bay ; Staring at suffering: violence as a subject / Donald L. Donham -- Modern states and the local definition of insiders/outsiders. The political economy of order amidst predation in Sierra Leone / William Reno ; Rotten fish: polarization, pluralism, and migrant-host : relations in Guinea-Bissau / Joanna Davidson -- Youth, gender, and generation. "Survival is political": history, violence, and the contemporary power struggle in Sierra Leone / Martha Carey ; Violent vigilantism and the state in Nigeria: the case of the Bakassi boys / Daniel Jordan Smith ; Mans is ma soe: ganging practices in Manenberg, South Africa, and the ideologies of masculinity, gender, and generational relations / Elaine Salo -- The social construction of forgetting and remembering violence. Memory, forgetting, and the Alexandra rebellion of 1986 / Belinda Bozzoli ; Veterans, violence, and nationalism in Zimbabwe / Jocelyn Alexander and JoAnn McGregor ; Memory and violence in postgenocide Rwanda / Timothy Longman and Théoneste Rutagengwa.
081392569X 9780813925691 0813925509 9780813925509
2006006847
Violence--Africa
Social conflict--Africa
Africa--Social conditions--1960-
HN780.Z9 / V577 2006
303.609609045
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Edna G. Bay ; Staring at suffering: violence as a subject / Donald L. Donham -- Modern states and the local definition of insiders/outsiders. The political economy of order amidst predation in Sierra Leone / William Reno ; Rotten fish: polarization, pluralism, and migrant-host : relations in Guinea-Bissau / Joanna Davidson -- Youth, gender, and generation. "Survival is political": history, violence, and the contemporary power struggle in Sierra Leone / Martha Carey ; Violent vigilantism and the state in Nigeria: the case of the Bakassi boys / Daniel Jordan Smith ; Mans is ma soe: ganging practices in Manenberg, South Africa, and the ideologies of masculinity, gender, and generational relations / Elaine Salo -- The social construction of forgetting and remembering violence. Memory, forgetting, and the Alexandra rebellion of 1986 / Belinda Bozzoli ; Veterans, violence, and nationalism in Zimbabwe / Jocelyn Alexander and JoAnn McGregor ; Memory and violence in postgenocide Rwanda / Timothy Longman and Théoneste Rutagengwa.
081392569X 9780813925691 0813925509 9780813925509
2006006847
Violence--Africa
Social conflict--Africa
Africa--Social conditions--1960-
HN780.Z9 / V577 2006
303.609609045