Imagining the Congo

The International Relations of Identity
2003
ISBN: 978-1-4039-6160-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 221 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 303 g

Understanding the current civil war in the Congo requires an examination of how the Congo's identity has been imagined over time. Imagining the Congo historicizes and contextualizes the constructions of the Congo's identity in order to analyze the political implications of that identity, looking in detail at four historical periods in which the identity of the Congo was contested, with numerous forces attempting to produce and attach meanings to its territory and people. Dunn looks specifically at how what he calls 'imaginings' of the Congo have allowed the current state of affairs there to develop, but he also looks at the broader conceptual question of how the concept of identity has developed and become important in recent international relations scholarship.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dunn, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Inventing the Congo: Henry Morton Stanley, Leopold II, and the 'Red Rubber' Scandal Congo as Chaos, Lumumba as Diable: Independence and the 1960s Crisis From Congo to Zaire: Mobutu's Production of an "Authentic" National Identity Cancer, Kabila, and the Congo: Central Africa at the end of the 20th Century Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

KEVIN DUNN is Assistant Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the co-editor of (Palgrave 2001).