Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies

Change and Continuity
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-349-95012-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5661 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Højbjerg, Christian K.

Murphy, William P.

Knörr, Jacqueline

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Deltas, Flussmündungen, Küstenregionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Deconstructing Tropes of Politics and Policies in Upper GuineaChristian K. Højbjerg, Jacqueline Knörr, William P. Murphy

Part I: (Re-)Configuration of Identifications and Alliances
2. Poro Society, Migration and Political Incorporation on the Freetown Peninsula, Sierra LeoneAnaïs Ménard
3. Challenging the Classical Parameters of 'Doing Host-Refugee Politics': The Case of Casamance Refugees in The GambiaCharlotte Ray 

4. Betterment versus Complicity: Struggling with Patron-Client Logica in Sierra LeoneAnne Menzel

5. Kinship Tropes as Critique of Patronage in Post-War Sierra LeoneWilliam P. Murphy

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 PolicyDavid Brown

7. Historicizing as a Legal Trope of Jeopardy in Asylum Narratives and Expert Testimonies of Gender-Based ViolenceBenjamin Lawrance

8. Revisiting Tropes of Environmental and Social Change in Casamance, SenegalMartin Evans

9. Casamance Secession: National Narratives of Marginalization and IntegrationMarkus Rudolf

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 LeoneSylvanus Spencer

11. Ethnicity as Trope of Political Belonging and Conflict: Cape Verdean Identity and Agency in Guinea-BissauChristoph Kohl

12. Dynamics in the Host-Stranger Paradigm: The Broker Role of a Latecomer Association in Western Côte d’IvoireKatharina Heitz Tokpa

Part IV: (Re-)Conceptualizing Development and Intervention
13. Roads as Imaginary for Employing Idle Youth in the Post-Conflict Liberian StateJairo Munive

14. Tropes, Networks and Higher Education in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone: Policy Formation at the University of MakeniDavid O’Kane

15. Bulletproofing: Small Arms, International Law, and Spiritual Security in the GambiaNiklas Hultin

Über Autor(innen)

Christian K. Højbjerg was Associate Professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and for many years a member of the research group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. He published extensively on a range of subjects, including historical memory, ritual and social organization, conflict and emergent political orders, identity and difference, and the role of reflexivity in shaping both social change and theoretical change.

Jacqueline Knörr is Head of of the research group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Extraordinary Professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle/Saale, Germany. Her research and publications focus on issues of identity, integration, migration, diaspora, gender, creolization, (trans)nationalism and childhood. Her regional foci are West Africa and Indonesia.

William P. Murphy is Research Affiliate in the Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA and research partner of the research group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. His early research focused on secrecy and socio-political hierarchy in Liberia, and on the language and strategies of chiefly political succession in Sierra Leone. His current research examines the language and organization of violence in civil war, using case material from Liberia and Sierra Leone.