“This book convincingly demonstrates that claims to autochthony are only effective through othering and exclusion. It will be important reading for scholars studying the political, social, and economic dynamics of crisis and conflict and their effects on people’s everyday lives.”—Lotje de Vries, Wageningen University
“An impressively original, seminal, and ground-breaking work of exhaustive research and meticulous scholarship. . . . A welcome and exceptionally informative contribution.”—Midwest Book Review
“Vlavonou masterfully demonstrates what it means to mobilize autochthony as an identity capital. . . . Belonging, Identity, and Conflict in the Central African Republic is a magnificent book, which does a lot to shed light upon the implications of autochthony.”—African and Asian Studies