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Politics and policies in Upper Guinea Coast societies : change and continuity / Christian K. Højbjerg, Jacqueline Knörr, William P. Murphy, Editors.

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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 epid...

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Other Authors: Højbjerg, Christian Kordt (Editor), Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960- (Editor), Murphy, Bill (William P.) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Subjects:
Guinea (Region) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Guinea (Region) > Politics and government > 21st century.
Guinea (Region) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Guinea (Region) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Sierra Leone > Social conditions > 20th century.
Sierra Leone > Social conditions > 21st century.
Postwar reconstruction > Guinea (Region)
Conflict management > Guinea (Region)
Sustainable development > Guinea (Region)
Politics and government.
Guinea(Region)
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Deconstructing Tropes of Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies / William P. Murphy
  • pt. I (Re-)Configurations of Identifications and Alliances
  • 2. Poro Society, Migration, and Political Incorporation on the Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone / Anais Menard
  • 3. Challenging the Classical Parameters of "Doing Host
  • Refugee Politics": The Case of Casamance Refugees in The Gambia / Charlotte Ray
  • 4. Betterment Versus Complicity: Struggling with Patron
  • Client Logics in Sierra Leone / Anne Menzel
  • 5. Kinship Tropes as Critique of Patronage in Postwar Sierra Leone / William P. Murphy
  • pt. II Challenging Conventions of Explaining and Situating Violent Conflict
  • 6. Grand Narratives of Crisis: Customary Conflicts as a Factor in the Liberian Civil War and Implications for Policy / David Brown
  • 7. Historicizing as a Legal Trope of Jeopardy in Asylum Narratives and Expert Testimonies of Gender-Based Violence / Benjamin N. Lawrance
  • 8. Revisiting Tropes of Environmental and Social Change in Casamance, Senegal / Martin Evans
  • 9. Casamance Secession: National Narratives of Marginalization and Integration / Markus Rudolf
  • pt. III (Re-)Contextualizing Postcolonial Statehood and National Belonging
  • 10. Transcending Traditional Tropes: Autochthony as a Discourse of Conflict and Integration in Postwar Krio/Non-Krio Relations in Sierra Leone / Sylvanus Spencer
  • 11. Ethnicity as Trope of Political Belonging and Conflict: Cape Verdean Identity and Agency in Guinea-Bissau / Christoph Kohl
  • 12. Dynamics in the Host
  • Stranger Paradigm: The Broker Role of a Latecomer Association in Western Cote d'Ivoire / Katharina Heitz Tokpa
  • pt. IV (Re-)Conceptualizing Development and Intervention
  • 13. Roads as Imaginary for Employing Idle Youth in the Post-Conflict Liberian State / Jairo Munive
  • 14. Tropes, Networks, and Higher Education in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone: Policy Formation at the University of Makeni / David O'Kane
  • 15. Bulletproofing: Small Arms, International Law, and Spiritual Security in the Gambia / Niklas Hultin.

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