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States of violence : politics, youth, and memory in contemporary Africa / edited by Edna G. Bay and Donald L. Donham.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Carter G. Woodson Institute seriesPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.Description: ix, 268 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 081392569X
  • 9780813925691
  • 0813925509
  • 9780813925509
  • 0813925770
  • 9780813925776
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: States of violence.LOC classification:
  • HN780.Z9 S1
Online resources:
Contents:
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 Th�eoneste Rutagengwa.
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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 Th�eoneste Rutagengwa.

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