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State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic
Louisa Lombard
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Description for State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic
Paperback. An in-depth and revealing account of the violence that has swept the Central African Republic. Series: African Arguments. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 biography, 1 index, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFJR; JHM; JPWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 138 x 218 x 30. Weight in Grams: 330.
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins. In this first comprehensive account of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far - that the violence has been due to a religious divide, or politicians' manipulations, or profiteering. Instead, she shows that conflict has long been useful to Central African politics, a tendency that ... Read more
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins. In this first comprehensive account of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far - that the violence has been due to a religious divide, or politicians' manipulations, or profiteering. Instead, she shows that conflict has long been useful to Central African politics, a tendency that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
African Arguments
Condition
New
Weight
329g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783608843
SKU
V9781783608843
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About Louisa Lombard
Louisa Lombard is an assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University. Previously she held a Ciriacy-Wantrup postdoctoral fellowship in natural resource economics at the University of California at Berkeley. She has published widely on politics and conflict in Central Africa. In addition to her academic research, she has worked in the Central African Republic as a field consultant to several ... Read more
Reviews for State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 `Brilliant ... Provides a magisterial reading of the role of violence in the making of the CAR. Authoritative, nuanced, and empirically rich, Lombard offers a new and compelling lens through which so-called state failure and post-conflict transitions can be understood.' Michael Watts, University of ... Read more