Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
Subtitle: Change and Continuity
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 17, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781349950126
Description: This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on 'crises' in this book draws attention to the intense socio-transformations in the region over the last three decades. Contemporary crises and changes in the region provoke a challenge to accepted ways of understanding and imagining socio-political life in the region - whether at the level of subnational and national communities, or international and regional structures of interest, such as refugees, weapon trafficking, cross-border military incursions, regional security, and transnational epidemics. This book explores and transcends the central explanatory tropes that have oriented research on the region and re-evaluates them in the light of the contemporary structural dynamics of crises, changes and continuities
Notes: Source title: Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity