Epistemologies of African Conflicts

Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-28079-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

This book offers a bold, ground-breaking epistemological critique of the dominant discourses on African conflicts. Based on a painstaking study of the ways in which the Sierra Leone civil war has been interpreted, it considers how Africa is constructed as a site of knowledge and the implications that this has for the continent and its people.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wai, Z.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Sierra Leone, Conflict and the Will to Truth Evolutionism and the Africanist Project The Idea of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone: A Decade of War The Conflict of Interpretations Sierra Leone Inflections and Amplifications Coda: Africanism, Conflicts and the Will to Truth

Über Autor(innen)

ZUBAIRU WAI is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University, Canada.