Politics and policies in Upper Guinea Coast societies : change and continuity

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Politics and policies in Upper Guinea Coast societies : change and continuity

Christian K. Højbjerg, Jacqueline Knörr, William P. Murphy, editors

Palgrave Macmillan, c2017

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction : deconstructing tropes of politics and policies in Upper Guinea Coast societies / Christian K. Højbjerg, Jacqueline Knörr, and William P. Murphy
  • Poro society, migration, and political incorporation on the freetown peninsula, Sierra Leone / Anaïs Ménard
  • Challenging the classical parameters of "Doing host-refugee politics" : the case of casamance refugees in the Gambia / Charlotte Ray
  • Betterment versus complicity : struggling with patron-client logics in Sierra Leone / Anne Menzel
  • Kinship tropes as critique of patronage in postwar Sierra Leone / William P. Murphy
  • Grand narratives of crisis : customary conflicts as a factor in the Liberian Civil War and implications for policy / David Brown
  • Historicizing as a legal trope of jeopardy in asylum narratives and expert testimonies of gender-based violence / Benjamin N. Lawrance
  • Revisiting tropes of environmental and social change in Casamance, Senegal / Martin Evans
  • Casamance secession : national narratives of marginalization and integration / Markus Rudolf
  • Transcending traditional tropes : autochthony as a discourse of conflict and integration in postwar Krio/Non-Krio relations in Sierra Leone / Sylvanus Spencer
  • Ethnicity as trope of political belonging and conflict : cape verdean identity and agency in Guinea-Bissau / Christoph Kohl
  • Dynamics in the host-stranger paradigm : the broker role of a latecomer association in Western Côte d'Ivoire / Katharina Heitz Tokpa
  • Roads as imaginary for employing idle youth in the post-conflict Liberian state / Jairo Munive
  • Tropes, networks, and higher education in post-conflict Sierra Leone : policy formation at the University of Makeni / David O'Kane
  • Bulletproofing : small arms, international law, and spiritual security in the Gambia / Niklas Hultin
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