States of violence
Subtitle: politics, youth, and memory in contemporary Africa
By: edited by Edna G. Bay and Donald L. Donham.
Contributors: Bay, Edna G.; Donham, Donald L.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780813925691
Subjects: Violence -- Africa; Social conflict -- Africa; Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Edna G. Bay ; Staring at suffering: violence as a subject / Donald L. Donham; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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 Theoneste Rutagengwa.