Conflict Age Power In North East Africa

Author : Eisei Kurimoto
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict, Age & Power in North East Africa written by Eisei Kurimoto and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age systems are involved in the competition for power. They are part of an institutional complex that makes societies fit to wage war. This book argues that in postcolonial North East Africa, with its recent history of national political conflict and civil and regional wars, the time has come to reemphasize the military and political relevance of age systems. Herein is new information about age systems in North East Africa, setting them firmly in a wider spatial and temporal context. Topics examined are regional age systems, the decline of some systems and the persistence of others, the way women are included or excluded, and the politicization and militarization of age systems in national political conflicts and civil wars.

Author : Richard J. Reid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199211884
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa written by Richard J. Reid and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates violent conflict through the 19th and 20th centuries in the region of Ethiopia and Eritrea and the Sudanese and Somali frontiers to ethnic, political, and religious conflict and the violent state- and empire-building processes which have defined the region.

Author : Richard J. Reid
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615927
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa written by Richard J. Reid and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northeast Africa has one of the richest histories in the world, and yet also one of the most violent. Richard Reid offers an historical analysis of violent conflict in northeast Africa through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, incorporating the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands and their escarpment and lowland peripheries, stretching between the modern Eritrean Red Sea coast and the southern and eastern borderlands of present day Ethiopia. Sudanese and Somali frontiers are also examined insofar as they can be related to ethnic, political, and religious conflict, and the violent state- and empire-building processes which have defined the region since c.1800. Reid argues that this modern warfare is not solely the product of modern political 'failure', but rather has its roots in a network of frontier zones which are both violent and creative. Such borderlands have given rise to markedly militarised political cultures which are rooted in the violence of the nineteenth century, and which in recent decades are manifest in authoritarian systems of government. Reid thus traces the history of Amhara and Tigrayan imperialisms to the nationalist and ethnic revolutions which represented the march of volatile borderlands on the hegemonic centre. He suggests a new interpretation of Ethiopian and Eritrean history, arguing that the key to understanding the region's turbulent present lies in an appreciation of the role of the armed, and politically fertile, frontier in its deeper past.

Author : Markus Virgil Hoehne
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800736762
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Identification and Conflict written by Markus Virgil Hoehne and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification and conflict at the level of particular actors in relation to the behaviour of large aggregates of people and to systemic conditions.

Author : Günther Schlee
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845459636
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa written by Günther Schlee and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in north-east Africa. These volumes provide an interdisciplinary account of the nature and significance of ethnic, religious, and national identity in north-east Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities. Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region.

Author : Kjetil Tronvoll
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004218491
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Power in Ethiopia written by Kjetil Tronvoll and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comparative ethnography of the contested powers that shape democratization in Ethiopia. Although multi-party elections have become the norm in Africa, relatively little is known about the significance of non-state actors such as traditional authorities in electioneering. Focusing on Ethiopia’s competitive 2005 elections, this book analyzes how customary leaders, political parties and state officials confronted and complemented each other during election time. Case studies reveal the contemporaneousness of traditional authorities in modern politics, but also how multi-party competition reproduces traditional relations of domination among ethnic groups. The book documents the importance of customary authority in selecting party candidates and providing legitimacy to political parties, but also their limitations in a country dominated by a semi-authoritarian party-state.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004695427
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive and rich analysis of the century-long socio-ecological transformation of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Major globalised processes of agricultural intensification, biodiversity conservation efforts, and natural-resource extraction have simultaneously manifested themselves in this one location. These processes have roots in the colonial period and have intensified in the past decades, after the establishment of the cut-flower industry and the geothermal-energy industry. The chapters in this volume exemplify the multiple, intertwined socio-environmental crises that consequently have played out in Naivasha in the past and the present, and that continue to shape its future.

Author : Michael Bollig
Publisher : Heinrich-Barth-Institut
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aridity, change and conflict in Africa written by Michael Bollig and published by Heinrich-Barth-Institut. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jan Bender Shetler
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821442430
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Serengeti written by Jan Bender Shetler and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many students come to African history with a host of stereotypes that are not always easy to dislodge. One of the most common is that of Africa as safari grounds—as the land of expansive, unpopulated game reserves untouched by civilization and preserved in their original pristine state by the tireless efforts of contemporary conservationists. With prose that is elegant in its simplicity and analysis that is forceful and compelling, Jan Bender Shetler brings the landscape memory of the Serengeti to life. She demonstrates how the social identities of western Serengeti peoples are embedded in specific spaces and in their collective memories of those spaces. Using a new methodology to analyze precolonial oral traditions, Shetler identifies core spatial images and reevaluates them in their historical context through the use of archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, ecological, and archival evidence. Imagining Serengeti is a lively environmental history that will ensure that we never look at images of the African landscape in quite the same way.

Author : Andrew Burton
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821443437
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generations Past written by Andrew Burton and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under. This situation has attracted growing scholarly attention, resulting in an important and rapidly expanding literature on the position of youth in African societies. While the scholarship examining the contemporary role of youth in African societies is rich and growing, the historical dimension has been largely neglected in the literature thus far. Generations Past seeks to address this gap through a wide-ranging selection of essays that covers an array of youth-related themes in historical perspective. Thirteen chapters explore the historical dimensions of youth in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first–century Ugandan, Tanzanian, and Kenyan societies. Key themes running through the book include the analytical utility of youth as a social category; intergenerational relations and the passage of time; youth as a social and political problem; sex and gender roles among East African youth; and youth as historical agents of change. The strong list of contributors includes prominent scholars of the region, and the collection encompasses a good geographical spread of all three East African countries.