Violence and belonging
Subtitle: the quest for identity in post-colonial Africa
By: edited by Vigdis Broch-Due.
Contributors: Broch-Due, Vigdis.
Publisher: Routledge; Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Political violence -- Africa -- Case studies -- Congresses.; Poverty -- Africa -- Congresses.; Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- -- Congresses.
Genres: Case studies; Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
Table of contents: title: Violence and belonging, analytical reflections / Vigdis Broch-Due; title: "Nowadays they can even kill you for that which they feel is theirs" / Amrik Heyer; title: Conflicts in context, political violence and anthropological puzzles / Harri Englund; title: Hunger, violence and the moral economy of war in Zimbabwe / Jocelyn Alexander and Jo Ann McGregor; title: Violence and the boundaries of belonging, comparing two border disputes in the South African lowveld / Isak Niehaus; title: Fertile moral links, reconsidering Barabaig violence / Astrid Blystad; title: "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; title: The politics of identity and the remembrance of violence and gender at the installation of a female chief in Zimbabwe / Björn Lindgren; title: Double-voiced violence in Kenya / John G. Galaty; title: Escape from genocide, the politics of identity in Rwanda's massacres / Johan Pottier; title: Women and the politics of identity, voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation / Fiona C Ross; title: Ambiguous identities, notion of war and "significant others" among the Tigreans of Ethiopia / Kjetil Tronvoll.