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Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
Change and Continuity
Christian K. HÞjbjerg,Jacqueline Knörr,William P. Murphy
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Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
Change and Continuity
Christian K. HÞjbjerg,Jacqueline Knörr,William P. Murphy
Ă propos de ce livre
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 â 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 des matiĂšres
- 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