Making war in Côte d'Ivoire / Mike McGovern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGovern, Mike.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Côte d'Ivoire--History--Civil War, 2002-2007.

Côte d'Ivoire.

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction: socialists and skinheads : Abidjan, 2003

Côte d'Ivoire

A chronology of the crisis

Chapters

Pillage and principle: making distinctions in a frontier zone

Thirdness

Ecology and economy

Personhood

Warfare

Conclusion

The politics of ressentiment

Introduction

Strangers and hosts along the upper Guinea coast

The rights of the autochthonous and the imposition of the state in Côte d'Ivoire's cocoa-producing west

Planters, but not mediocre planters

'On peut instrumentaliser une réalité': the development of an Ivorian politics of resentment

Violence as discourse, violence as practice

Decolonisation and dramaturgy

The "problem" of African youth

Fesci and its alumni

Free money: the transition from zouglou to coupé décalé

"This is play"

"La deuxième guerre d'indépendence" and the rhetoric of revolution

"Is this play?" : the media and the events of November 2004

Does it matter if this is play?

Following the money: the cocoa-coffee filière

The history of the filière

Intergenerational tensions

The filière restructured and ready to do business

From "L" or brun to "l"or noir: the reintroduction of petroleum production as part of the Ivorian political economy

Neither war nor peace: the sociology of a state of emergency

What causes civil conflict in west Africa?

Case study: the third assistant to the mayor of Guiglo

Checkpoint ethnography: economic gain and the threat of violence

Alignment

Manchester in Guiglo?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226514598

0226514595

9780226514604

0226514609

OCLC:

457149454