TY - BOOK AU - Højbjerg,Christian K. AU - Knörr,Jacqueline AU - Murphy,William P. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity SN - 9781349950133 AV - JQ1870-3981 U1 - 320.96 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan US, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Africa—Politics and government KW - Public policy KW - Peace KW - Poverty KW - Economic development KW - Public health KW - African Politics KW - Public Policy KW - Conflict Studies KW - Development Aid KW - Regional Development KW - Public Health N1 - 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95013-3 ER -