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The Roots of Ethnic Conflict in Africa -

The Roots of Ethnic Conflict in Africa

From Grievance to Violence

Wanjala S. Nasong'o (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-55499-4 (ISBN)
CHF 74,85 inkl. MwSt
This book focuses on the problem of ethnic conflict in Africa and seeks to explain its root causes. The main thesis of the book is that ethnic political mobilization is essentially a function of deeply-felt grievances on the part of the groups so mobilized.

Céline A. Jacquemin is an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at St Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Tom Onditi Luoch is Associate Professor of English and Linguistics in the General Education program at the United States International University Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. Wanjala S. Nasong'o is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of International Studies at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Sam Okoth Opondo is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics and Africana Studies at Vassar College, New York, USA. Martin S. Shanguhyia is an Assistant Professor of African History at Syracuse University in New York, USA. Stephen Mwachofi Singo is currently Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Joseph O. Wasonga is lecturer in Political Science, Conflict Studies and International Relations at Kenyatta University, Kenya.

1. From Grievance to Ethnic Mobilization: An Introduction; Wanjala S. Nasong'o 2. Explaining Ethnic Conflicts: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives; Wanjala S. Nasong'o 3. Deep-Seated Historical and Socio-Economic Grievances: The North-South Conflict in the Sudan; Wanjala S. Nasong'o 4. Conflict Trajectory in Northern Uganda: Its Development and Nature; Joseph O. Wasonga 5. Ambiguity of the Soil, Ambiguity of Belonging: Grievance, Resource Avarice, and Conflict in Eastern DRC; Stephen Mwachofi Singo and Sam Okoth Opondo 6. Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Colonial and Post-Colonial Roots of the Rwandan Genocide; Celine A. Jacquemin 7. In Search of a Political Identity: The Historical Basis of Understanding Zanzibar's Post-Colonial Dilemma; Martin S. Shanguhyia 8. The Myth of Language as a Unifying Factor: Conflict in Monolingual Rwanda and Somalia; Tom Onditi Luoch 9. Managing Ethnically Divided Societies: Conclusion; Wanjala S. Nasong'o

Zusatzinfo XII, 208 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-137-55499-1 / 1137554991
ISBN-13 978-1-137-55499-4 / 9781137554994
Zustand Neuware
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