The Recurring Great Lakes Crisis Identity, Violence, Power |
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| Editor:
| Chretien, Jean-Pierre
Banegas, Richard |
| Series title: | Columbia/Hurst Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-15438-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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Since the early 1990s, the African Great Lakes region has experienced a series of traumas that have profoundly disrupted its geopolitical, economic, social, and demographic stability. Despite numerous peace accords, political compromises, and international interventions, the region has yet to eliminate the tensions that regularly manifest in hate and violence.
Featuring contributions from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists, this collection...
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Since the early 1990s, the African Great Lakes region has experienced a series of traumas that have profoundly disrupted its geopolitical, economic, social, and demographic stability. Despite numerous peace accords, political compromises, and international interventions, the region has yet to eliminate the tensions that regularly manifest in hate and violence.
Featuring contributions from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists, this collection accounts for the omnipresent "metastases of hatred and violence" in the Great Lakes region. Through a series of detailed case studies, contributors outline the genealogy and historicity of violence in the region while remaining sensitive to the singular, contingent experiences of each country.