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Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity
Christian K. Hojbjerg (Ed.)
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Hardback. Editor(s): Hojbjerg, Christian K.; Knorr, Jacqueline; Murphy, William P. Num Pages: 342 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFD; GTF; GTJ; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 596.
This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on `crises' in this book draws attention to the intense socio-transformations in the region over the last three decades. Contemporary crises and changes in the region provoke a challenge to accepted ways of understanding and imagining socio-political life in the region - whether at the level of subnational and national communities, ... Read more
This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on `crises' in this book draws attention to the intense socio-transformations in the region over the last three decades. Contemporary crises and changes in the region provoke a challenge to accepted ways of understanding and imagining socio-political life in the region - whether at the level of subnational and national communities, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349950126
SKU
V9781349950126
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99-15
About Christian K. Hojbjerg (Ed.)
Christian K. Hojbjerg was Associate Professor at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and for many years a member of the research group Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. He published extensively on a range of subjects, including historical memory, ritual and social organization, conflict and ... Read more
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