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VIOLENCE AND BELONGING
THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA |
| By: |
Vigdis Broch-Due |
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Paperback |
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£22.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415290074 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415290074 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
25 November, 2004 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Modernization in Africa has created new freedoms and new problems. This text explores the role of violence in shaping people's ideas of who they are in uncertain postcolonial contexts. It asks how everyday violence ties in with wider political upheaval and analyses examples to reveal its links with broader cultural values and identity politics. |
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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 contested, identities and ideas of belonging become a focal area of conflict and negotiation. Focusing on fieldwork from across the continent, its case studies consider how routine everyday violence ties in with wider regional and political upheavals, and how individuals experience and legitimize violence in its different forms. The Zimbabwean and Sudanese civil wars, Kenyan Kikuyu domestic conflicts, Rwandan massacres and South African Truth and Reconciliation processes, are among the contexts explored. |
| Illustrations: |
3 black & white line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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Returnable |
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