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UNINA9910797632903321 |
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Titolo |
Evil in Africa : encounters with the everyday / / edited by William C. Olsen & Walter E. A. van Beek ; foreword by David Parkin |
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Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (405 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Good and evil |
Good and evil - Social aspects - Africa |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: African notions of evil : the chimera of justice / Walter E. A. van Beek and William C. Olsen -- Political evil : witchcraft from the perspective of the bewitched / Sonia Silva -- Untying wrongs in northern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika -- The evil of insecurity in South Sudan : violence and impunity in Africa's newest state / Jok Madut Jok -- Genocide, evil, and human agency : the concept of evil in Rwandan explanations of the 1994 genocide / Jennie E. Burnet -- Politics and cosmographic anxiety : Kongo and Dagbon compared / Wyatt MacGaffey -- Ambivalence and the work of the negative among the Yaka / Rene Devisch -- Aze and the incommensurable / Leocadie Ekoue with Judy Rosenthal -- Evil and the art of revenge in the Mandara Mountains / Walter E. A. van Beek -- Distinctions in the imagination of harm in contemporary Mijikenda thought : the existential challenge of Majini / Diane Ciekawy -- Haunted by absent others : movements of evil in a Nigerian city / Ulrika Trovalla -- Attributions of evil among Haalpulaaren, Senegal / Roy Dilley -- Reflections regarding good and evil : the complexity of words in Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Constructing moral personhood : the moral test in Tuareg sociability as a commentary on honor and dishonor / Susan J. Rasmussen -- The gender of evil : Maasai experiences and expressions / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Neocannibalism, military biopolitics, and the problem of human evil / Nancy Scheper- |
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Hughes -- Theft and evil in Asante / William C. Olsen -- Sorcery after socialism : liberalization and antiwitchcraft practices in southern Tanzania / Maia Green -- Transatlantic Pentecostal demons in Maputo / Linda van de Kamp -- The meaning of "apartheid" and the epistemology of evil / Adam Ashforth. |
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UNINA9910799948703321 |
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Autore |
Al O'ran Mutayyam <1972-> |
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Jordanian-Israeli relations [[electronic resource] ] : the peacebuilding experience / / Mutayyam al O'ran |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
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1-134-07249-X |
1-281-83786-5 |
9786611837860 |
0-203-88692-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (128 p.) |
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Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics |
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Arab-Israeli conflict - 1993- - Peace |
Jordan Foreign relations Israel |
Israel Foreign relations Jordan |
Jordan Politics and government 1999- |
Israel Politics and government 1993- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The long journey to peace: Jordanian-Israeli relations until the Treaty of Peace of 1994; 3 Achieving and building peace (1994-2003); 4 Obstacles to a warm peace at the structural level; 5 The refugee question and peace; 6 Leaderships and the peacebuilding process; 7 The road to a warm peace; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Jordan's peace treaty with Israel was unique as it bore the promise of what was termed a ""warm"" peace between the two warring countries. With legitimacy provided by Madrid and Oslo, hopes for ""true"" peace, |
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as the Israelis would describe it, were high. This book explores the Jordanian-Israeli relations from a Jordanian perspective, focusing on the peacebuilding experience since 1994. In examining the reasons why a warm peace has not developed, the book focuses on the interplay between agency and structure on the Jordanian side, in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian context. In doing so, |
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