Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies
Change and Continuity
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 communiti…
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Weitere Autoren: Knörr, Jacqueline (Hrsg.) / Murphy, William P. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-349-95012-6
- EAN: 9781349950126
- Produktnummer: 19907130
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 342 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.4 cm 578 g
- Abbildungen: Book; Bibliographie
- Gewicht: 578
Über den Autor
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.
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