Moses / Heerten Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide

The Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-85865-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 478 Seiten

Reihe: The Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series

This volume is the first, comprehensive and balanced historical account of the momentous Nigeria-Biafra war. It offers a multi-perspectival treatment of the conflict that explores issues such as local experiences of victims, the massive relief campaigns by humanitarian NGOs and international organizations like the Red Cross, the actions of foreign powers with interests in the conflict, and the significance of the international public sphere, in which the propaganda and public relations war was waged.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moses, A. Dirk

Heerten, Lasse

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Nigeria-Biafra War: Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide

[Lasse Heerten and A. Dirk Moses]

Section I: Genocide and the Biafran Bid for Self-Determination

2. "Ours is a War of Survival": Biafra, Nigeria and Arguments About Genocide, 1966-1970

[Douglas Anthony]

3. Marketing Genocide: Biafran Propaganda Strategies During the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970

[Roy Doron]

4. The Case Against Victor Banjo: Legal Process and the Governance of Biafra

[Samuel Fury Childs Daly]

5. The Biafran Secession and the Limits of Self-Determination

[Brad Simpson]

Section II: A Global Event

6. The UK and "Genocide" in Biafra

[Karen E. Smith]

7. French Military Policy in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970

[Christopher Griffin]

8. Israel and the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970

[Zach Levey]

9. Strange Bedfellows: An Unlikely Alliance Between the Soviet Union and Nigeria During the Biafran War

[Maxim Matusevich]

10. Biafra Concern in West Germany

[Florian Hannig]

11. Dealing with "Genocide": The ICRC and the UN During the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970

[Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps]

12. Humanitarian Encounters: Biafra, NGOs and Imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967-70

[Kevin O’Sullivan]

13. "And Starvation is the Grim Reaper": The American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive and the Genocide Question During the Nigerian Civil War, 1968-1970

[Brian McNeil]

Section III: Trauma and Memory

14. The Human Cost: How Military Action and Civilian Reaction Caused Incalculable Suffering and Loss of Life

[Michael Gould]

15. Women and the Biafra-Nigeria War

[Gloria Chuku]

16. "Biafra of the Mind": MASSOB and the Mobilization of History

[Ike Okonta]

17. Memory as Social Burden: Collective Remembrance of the Biafran War and Imaginations of Socio-Political Marginalization in Contemporary Nigeria

[Edlyne Anugwom]

18. The Asaba Massacre and the Nigerian Civil War: Reclaiming Hidden History

[S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli]

19. Imagined Nations and Imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebe’s Quest for a Country

[Mpalive Msiska]

Über Autor(innen)

A. Dirk Moses is professor of modern history at the University of Sydney. He is the author and editor of many publications on history, memory and genocide, including Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence: The Dutch Empire in Indonesia (2014, edited with Bart Luttikhuis), and senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research.

Lasse Heerten is head of the project ‘Imperial Gateway: Hamburg, the German Empire, and the Making of a Global Port’ at the Freie Universität Berlin. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Rights at the University of California at Berkeley. His first book, a global history of the humanitarian crisis in Biafra, will be published by Cambridge University Press.