Lumpen Culture and Political Violence
Author | : Abdullah Ibrahim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Abdullah Ibrahim |
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Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Tade Akin Aina (ed.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 1997 |
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This issue focuses on the specificities of the civil war in Sierra Leone and explains the social origins and the dynamics of the crisis. Central to the ongoing war and violence is its youth culture. An educated, urban youth found themselves unemployable in the post colonial Sierra Leone economy and student dissent against the state and its ruling elite took the form of direct protest. All the papers in this issue direct attention to growing militancy amongst the youth. The intellectual foundations of the Revolutionary United Front and the role of student radicals in the development of a rebellious youth culture are discussed. The factors that led to a collaboration between the National Provisional Ruling Council and the RUF and finally to the May 1997 coup by the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces and the RUF are critically analysed. Though these contributions are specific top the problems in Sierra Leone they underscore the problem of youth alienation in Africa generally and may help to initiate further discussions on the subject of youth alienation and violence.
Author | : Krijn Peters |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2011-03-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1139497391 |
The armed conflict in Sierra Leone and the extreme violence of the main rebel faction - the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - have challenged scholars and members of the international community to come up with explanations. Up to this point, though, conclusions about the nature of the war are mainly drawn from accounts of civilian victims and commentators who had access to only one side of the war. The present study addresses this currently incomplete understanding of the conflict by focusing on the direct experiences and interpretations of protagonists, paying special attention to the hitherto neglected, and often underage, cadres of the RUF. The data presented challenges the widely canvassed notion of the Sierra Leone conflict as a war motivated by 'greed, not grievance'. Rather, it points to a rural crisis expressed in terms of unresolved tensions between landowners and marginalized rural youth, further reinforced and triggered by a collapsing patrimonial state.
Author | : Joseph Zajda |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031554787 |
Author | : Jacqueline Knörr |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2010-10-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004190007 |
This book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction impacted by specific historical experiences. Contributions aim at a better understanding of the social mechanisms affecting processes of integration and conflict at the local, national and regional levels.
Author | : Ian Bannon |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0821365061 |
This book is an attempt to bring the gender and development debate full circle-from a much-needed focus on empowering women to a more comprehensive gender framework that considers gender as a system that affects both women and men. The chapters in this book explore definitions of masculinity and male identities in a variety of social contexts, drawing from experiences in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa. It draws on a slowly emerging realization that attaining the vision of gender equality will be difficult, if not impossible, without changing the ways in which masculinities are defined and acted upon. Although changing male gender norms will be a difficult and slow process, we must begin by understanding how versions of masculinities are defined and acted upon.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen Ellis |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2006-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814722385 |
Liberia has been one of Africa’s most violent trouble spots. In 1990, when thousands of teenage fighters, including young men wearing women’s clothing and bizarre objects of decoration, laid siege to the capital, the world took notice. Since then Liberia has been through devastating civil upheaval. What began as a civil conflict, has spread to other West African nations. Eschewing popular stereotypes and simple explanations, Stephen Ellis traces the history of the civil war that has blighted Liberia in recent years and looks at its political, ethnic and cultural roots. He focuses on the role religion and ritual have played in shaping and intensifying this brutal war. In this edition, with a new preface by the author, Ellis provides a current picture of Liberia and details how much of the same problems still exist.
Author | : Mats Utas |
Publisher | : Mats Utas |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Child soldiers |
ISBN | : 9150616773 |
Author | : Jeremy Prestholdt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190092645 |
The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something else recognizable to a wide audience, icons of dissent have been integrated into diverse political and consumer cultures, and global audiences have reinterpreted them over time. To illustrate these points the book examines four of the most evocative and controversial figures of the past fifty years: Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Each has embodied a convergence of dissent, cultural politics, and consumerism, yet popular perceptions of each reveal the dissonance between shared, global references and locally contingent interpretations. By examining four very different figures, Icons of Dissent offers new insights into global symbolic idioms, the mutability of common references, and the commodification of political sentiment in the contemporary world.