Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies : Change and Continuity / [electronic resource] : / edited by Christian K. Højbjerg, Jacqueline Knörr, William P. Murphy.. — 1st ed. 2017.. — XV, 342 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color. : online resource.
1. Introduction: Deconstructing Tropes of Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea -- Part I (Re-)Configuration of Identifications and Alliances -- 2. Poro Society, Migration and Political Incorporation on the Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone -- 3. Challenging the Classical Parameters of 'Doing Host-Refugee Politics': The Case of Casamance Refugees in The Gambia -- 4. Betterment versus Complicity: Struggling with Patron-Client Logica in Sierra Leone -- 5. Kinship Tropes as Critique of Patronage in Post-War Sierra Leone -- Part II Challenging Conventions of Explaining and Situating Violent Conflict -- 6. Grand Narratives of Crisis: Grand Narratives of Crisis: Customary Conflicts as a Factor in the Liberian Civil War and Implications for Policy -- 7. Historicizing as a Legal Trope of Jeopardy in Asylum Narratives and Expert Testimonies of Gender-Based Violence -- 8. Revisiting Tropes of Environmental and Social Change in Casamance, Senegal -- 9. Casamance Secession: National Narratives of Marginalization and Integration -- Part III (Re-)Contextualizing Postcolonial Statehood and National Belonging -- 10. Transcending Traditional Tropes: Autochthony as a Discourse of Conflict and Integration in Post-war Krio/Non-Krio Relations in Sierra Leone -- 11. Ethnicity as Trope of Political Belonging and Conflict: Cape Verdean Identity and Agency in Guinea-Bissau -- 12. Dynamics in the Host-Stranger Paradigm: The Broker Role of a Latecomer Association in Western Côte d’Ivoire -- Part IV (Re-)Conceptualizing Development and Intervention -- 13. Roads as Imaginary for Employing Idle Youth in the Post-Conflict Liberian State -- 14. Tropes, Networks and Higher Education in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone: Policy Formation at the University of Makeni -- 15. Bulletproofing: Small Arms, International Law, and Spiritual Security in the Gambia.
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Анотація: 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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