Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa
Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa
edited by Preben Kaarsholm
Ohio University Press, 2006 Paper: 978-0-89680-251-3 Library of Congress Classification HN780.Z9V586 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 303.609609045
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Africa has witnessed a number of transitions to democracy in recent years. Coinciding with this upsurge in democratic transitions have been spectacular experiences of social disintegration.An alternative to discourses of the “failed” and “collapsed” state in Africa is an approach that takes seriously the complex historical processes underlying the political development of individual nation states. The chapters in this volumethrow light on the ways in which violence, political culture, and development have interacted in recent African history.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Preben Kaarsholm is a professor of international development studies atRoskilde University, Denmark.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
States of Failure. Societies in Collapse?
Understandings of Violent Conflict in Africa
PREBEN KA ARS HOLM 1
2
Insurgenci es in the Shadow
of State Collapse
WILLIAM RENO 25
A Societal View on Violence & War
Corjict & Militia Formation in Eastern Congo
KOEN VLASSENROOT 49
4
Debating
the Rwandan Genocide
NItGE EiLTR NGHAM 66
Darfur
Peace. GenoCide& Crimes A e gist Humanity in Sudan
DOUGLAS I. JOHNSON 92
Legacies of Violence
in Matabeland, Zimbabwe
JOCELYN ALEXANDER 105
7
The Past as Contested Terrain
Commenmrating New Sites of Memory
in War-Torn Ethiopia
ALESSANDRO TRIULZI 122
Violence as Signifier
Politics & Generational Struggle in KwaZulu-Natal
PREBEN KAARSHOLM 139
War, Violence & Videotapes
IMedia Localised Ideoscapes of the Liberian Civil War
MATSUTAS 161
Forced Labou & Civil War
Agrarian Underpinnings of the Sierra Leone Conflict
PAUL RICHARDS 181