States of violence : politics, youth, and memory in contemporary Africa
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States of violence : politics, youth, and memory in contemporary Africa
University of Virginia Press, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The essayists whose work is collected here - historians, anthropologists, and political scientists - bring their diverse disciplinary perspectives to bear on various forms of violence that have plagued recent African history. Exploring violence as part of political economy and rejecting stereotypical explanations of African violence as endemic or natural to African cultures, the essays examine a continent where the boundaries on acceptable force are always shifting and the distinction between violence by the state and against the state is not always clear.
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