04225oam 2200685I 450 991045130800332120200520144314.097866102249441-134-43789-71-280-22494-00-203-49997-210.4324/9780203499979 (CKB)1000000000255993(EBL)182428(OCoLC)252725407(SSID)ssj0000267561(PQKBManifestationID)12022353(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267561(PQKBWorkID)10209416(PQKB)10181941(SSID)ssj0000367308(PQKBManifestationID)12170312(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000367308(PQKBWorkID)10436073(PQKB)11082480(MiAaPQ)EBC182428(Au-PeEL)EBL182428(CaPaEBR)ebr10162232(CaONFJC)MIL22494(EXLCZ)99100000000025599320180706d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrViolence and belonging the quest for identity in post-colonial Africa /edited by Vigdis Broch-DueLondon ;New York :Routledge,2005.1 online resource (256 p.)"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.0-415-29006-6 0-415-29007-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 /Björn 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.Modernization in Africa has created new problems as well as new freedoms. Multiparty democracy, resource privatization and changing wealth relationships, have not always created stable and prosperous communities, and violence continues to be endemic in many areas of African life - from civil war and political strife to violent clashes between genders, generations, classes and ethnic groups. Violence and Belonging explores the crucial formative role of violence in shaping people's ideas of who they are in uncertain postcolonial contexts where, as resources dwindle and wealth is conPolitical violenceAfricaCase studiesCongressesPovertyAfricaCongressesAfricaPolitics and government1960-CongressesElectronic books.Political violencePoverty303.6/096Broch-Due Vigdis869148MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451308003321Violence and belonging1940541UNINA