The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa

• Autore: Mlambo Obert Bernard
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1161 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.6096
• Altri autori: ChitandoEzra
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contents -- Violence in Africa: A General Introduction -- 1 Part I: Conceptualizing Violence in Africa -- 2 Part II: The State and Violence in Africa -- 3 Part III: Children, Youth, and Violence -- 4 Part IV: Nature, Religion, and Cultural Violence in Africa -- 5 Part V: Gender and Violence in Africa -- 6 Part VI: Violence, Memory, and the Law in Africa -- 7 Part VII: Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa -- Bibliography -- Conceptualizing Violence in Africa -- Violence in Africa: Reflecting on a Broad Concept -- 1 Violence: Some Notes on a Slippery Concept -- 2 Forms of Violence in Africa -- Epistemic Violence -- Sexual and Gender-Based Violence -- Violence Against Men and Boys -- Violence Against Sex Workers -- Violence Against Children -- Violence Against Sexual Minorities -- Ecological Violence -- Violence by the State -- Electoral Violence -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- The Rate of Oppression (ROp): The Apartheid Studies Approach to the Study of Harm -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Apartheid Studies: Motivations, Itineraries, and "Where Were You When X" -- 3 The Rate of Oppression (ROp) and the Experience of Harm: A Discussion -- 4 By Way of Conclusion: Harm and Circadian Rhythms -- References -- On Systemic and Epistemic Violence in Africa -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mapping the Forms of Violence Beyond Common Conceptions -- 3 The Modern Infrastructures of Systems of Violence -- 4 The Cognitive Empire and Epistemic Violence -- 5 Existential, Justice and Epistemic Dimensions of Violence -- 6 Towards the Resolution of Epistemic Violence -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Technologies of Violence in Africa -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Concepts: "Technology" and "Violence" -- 3 The New Millennium -- 4 End of Old-Type Wars. ; 5 Technology of Xenophobic and Genocidal Violence in Africa -- 6 Technologies of Infrastructure and Geography in Africa -- 7 Religious Wars/Terrorism -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Border Violence in Africa -- 1 Africa's Border Politics -- 2 Conceptualizing Eurocentric Border Violence -- Eurocentric Bordering Practices -- Researching Border Violence -- The Tunisian Case -- 3 Memories and Experiences of Border Violence in Tunisia -- Algeria: A Racist Jungle -- Morocco: An Externalized Police State -- Libya: Detention and Torture in a Mafia Zone -- Zarzis: Fishing and Mourning Migrants -- Tunis: Humanitarian Neglect and Wavering Hospitality -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Diaspora and the Afterlife of Violence: Eritrean National Narratives and What Goes Without Saying -- 1 Living with Losses: Eritrean Experiences of Violence -- 2 Suffering for the Nation -- 3 Diaspora and the Afterlife of Violence -- 4 What Goes Without Saying -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- The Chemical Violence of Colonial Encounters in Africa: Historiographical Reflections and Theoretical Perspectives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Toxic Colonial Histories: Chemicalized Landscapes and Disposable Bodies -- 3 Toxic Timescapes of Colonialism: Temporalities of Chemical Violence in Africa -- 4 Towards a New Analytical Frontier of Studying Violence in Africa -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Epistemic Violence in the Postcolony: Interrogating the Colonial Legacy and War in Francophone African Literature -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Violence and Its Literary Representation -- 3 Epistemic Violence -- 4 War as Violence/The Violence of War -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Geographies of Violence and Informalization: The Case of Mathare Slums in Nairobi, Kenya -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Study Area and Methodology -- 3 Slums and Structured Violence -- 4 Circuit and Existentialist Violence. ; 5 State Violence on Mathare Residents -- 6 State Action on Managing Slum Issues -- 7 The Origin and Activities of Vigilantes in Nairobi's Slums -- 8 Engaging in Violence Perpetrated By Formal Institutions and Vigilantes -- 9 The Way Forward -- 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Through the Afrocentricity Lens: Terror, Insurgency and Implications for Regional Integration in Southern Africa from Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Africa, Regional Integration, and the Economic Growth Agenda: A Concise Analysis of Literature -- 3 Historically Africanizing Terrorism and Insurgency -- 4 The Resurrection of Terror and Insurgency in Capo Delgado: Unpacking the Driving Motives -- Implications for Southern African Regional Integration -- Possible Recommendations -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The State and Violence in Africa -- Discourses on Political Violence and the Mechanics of Legitimation in Official Commissions of Inquiry in Africa -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptualizing Political Violence -- 3 Commissions and (Colonial) State Formation -- Commissions on the Continent -- Colonial Commissions, Law, and Indirect Rule -- 4 Discourses on Violence in Official Commissions -- 5 Not a Strikers' Demonstration But a Looting Mob -- 6 Truth-Seeking to Critique State Violence in Africa -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Party Politics, Violence, Impunity, and Social Injustices in Zimbabwe (1980-2022) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background to the Study -- 3 Literature Review -- 4 Methodology -- 5 Findings and Discussion -- Post-Election Evictions 1985 -- Gukurahundi, 1982-1987 -- Land Invasions, 2000 -- Operation Murambatsvina, 2005 -- 2008 Election Violence-The Presidential Run-Off -- Post-Mugabe Election Violence in 2018 -- Pre-2023 Election Conditions -- Banning of Opposition Rallies -- Delayed Court Cases Involving Opposition Members. ; 6 Making Every Civil Servant a ZANU PF Card-Carrying Member -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Preventing Electoral Violence in Africa: Towards Sustainable Peace -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Political Economy Analysis: A Theoretical Lens -- Structural Roots -- Super-Structural Triggers -- 3 Elections-Violence Nexus -- 4 Electoral Cycle Dynamics -- 5 Towards Sustainable Peace -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- "Dirge to Slit Bodies": EndSARS, Police Brutality, and Nigerian Dystopia in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku's Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up -- 1 Introduction -- 2 #EndSARS: Police Brutality, Reforms, and Disbandment of SARS -- 3 The 2017 EndSARS Campaign-Prologue -- 4 The 2020 EndSARS Campaign and the Lekki Massacre-Climax -- 5 The 2020 EndSARS Campaign and the Lekki Massacre-Epilogue -- 6 #EndSARS: Police Brutality and Protest Voices in Jumoke Verissimo and James Yéku's Soro Soke: When Poetry Speaks Up -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Resource Curse and Structural Violence in Angola: A Path for Perpetual Conflicts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Overview of Angola: Hidden Violence -- 4 The Resource Curse -- 5 Governance of Resources -- 6 Public Sector Performance -- 7 Investment Status -- 8 Sustainability of Oil Production -- 9 Debt Sustainability -- 10 The Energy Sector -- 11 Human Capital Status -- 12 Private Sector Performance -- 13 Business Opportunities -- 14 Governance Challenges Relating to Private Sector Growth -- 15 Overall Economic Challenges -- 16 Poverty and the Urban-Rural Experience -- 17 Structural Violence -- 18 Conclusion -- 19 Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Electoral Violence in Ghana's Fourth Republic: The Case of Party Vigilantism -- 1 Introduction -- A Note on the Methodology -- 2 Conceptualizing Electoral Violence -- 3 Evolution of Party Vigilante Activities in Ghana. ; Nature of Party Vigilantism in the Current Dispensation -- Effects of Party Vigilante Activities on the Democratic Process -- Tackling the Party Vigilantism Menace -- 4 Conclusion and Lessons -- Bibliography -- Investigating the Causes and Impact of Electoral Violence in Nigeria -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Nature of Electoral Violence -- 3 An Overview of Electoral Violence in Nigeria -- 4 The Causes of Electoral Violence in Nigeria -- 5 The Impact of Electoral Violence in Nigeria -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Ungoverned Space and National Security in Nigeria -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Clarification -- Ungoverned Space -- National Security -- Violence -- 3 Theoretical Framework -- 4 Ungoverned Space Constitutes a Threat to National Security in Nigeria -- 5 Conclusion -- Recommendations -- References -- Children, Youth and Violence -- Trauma, Violence, and Memory in African Child Soldier Memoirs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Reading Child Soldier Memoirs into/as History -- 3 Empirical, Narrative, and Affective Truth in Memoirs -- 4 "Victims" to "Savages": Innocence, Violence, and Narrative Rupture -- 5 Violence as a Currency of Legitimacy? -- 6 Trauma, Guilt, and Memory -- 7 Saviours and Campaigners: Military Demobilization and Activist Re-mobilization -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Africa and Violence: The Metamorphosis and Participation of Child Soldiers in Conflict Zones -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature/Theoretical Explanations -- 3 Violent Conflict in Africa -- 4 Why Become a Child Soldier? The "Push" and "Pull" Factors -- 5 Efforts at Stopping Child Soldiering -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Youth, Violence, and Political Accumulation: Urban Militias in Zimbabwe -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Politics of Violence -- 3 Researching the Context of Fear -- 4 Mobilization Register as Symbolic Violence. ; 5 Singing Songs, Marching, and Dancing for the Enemy.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa
• ISBN: 3-031-40754-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910855399903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II