Violence and belonging : the quest for identity in post-colonial Africa /
edited by Vigdis Broch-Due.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
- x, 261 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm.
"Most of the chapters of this volume come from a larger collection o f papers produced for a conference held in 2000 under the auspices of t he Research Programme 'Poverty and Prosperity in Africa: Local and Glob al Perspectives' at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden"--Pref .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Violence and belonging: analytical reflections / "Nowadays they can even kill you for that which they feel is the irs": gender and the production of ethnic identity in Kikuyu-speaking C entral Kenya / Conflicts in context: political vio lence and anthropological puzzles / Hunger, viol ence and the moral economy of war in Zimbabwe / Violence and the boundaries of belonging: com paring two border disputes in the South African lowveld / Fertile moral links: reconsidering Barabaig violence / "Food itself is fighting with us": a comparative analy sis of the impact of Sudan's civil war on South Sudanese civilian popul ations located in the North and the South / The politics of identity and the remembrance of violence: ethnic ity and gender at the installation of a female chief in Zimbabwe / Double-voiced violence in Kenya / Escape from genocide: the politics of identity in Rwanda's mass acres / Women and the politics of identity: voic es in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Ambiguous identities: the notion of war and "significant others" among the Tigreans of Ethiopia / Vigdis Broch-Due -- Amrik Heyer -- Harri Englund -- Jocelyn Alexander, Jo Ann McGregor -- Isak Nieha us -- Astr id Blystad -- Sharon Elaine Hutchinson -- B jèorn Lindgren -- John G. Galat y -- Johan Pottier -- Fiona C. Ross -- Kjetil Tronvoll.