Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
Change and Continuity
Christian K. Højbjerg,Jacqueline Knörr,William P. Murphy
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Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
Change and Continuity
Christian K. Højbjerg,Jacqueline Knörr,William P. Murphy
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Deconstructing Tropes of Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
- Part I: (Re-)Configurations of Identifications and Alliances
- Part II: Challenging Conventions of Explaining and Situating Violent Conflict
- Part III: (Re-)Contextualizing Postcolonial Statehood and National Belonging
- Part IV: (Re-)Conceptualizing Development and Intervention
- Index