The political economy of rural-urban conflict : predation, production, and peripheries / Topher L. McDougal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDougal, Topher L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurgency--Economic aspects.

Insurgency.

Conflict management.

Economics--Philosophy.

Economics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 215 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Contents:

Part I The Political Economy of the Rural-Urban Interface

1 Introduction 3

2 Production and Predation 32

Part II Violence Acts on Production Networks

3 How Production Networks Adapted to Civil War in Liberia 67

4 Stateless State-Led Industrialization 93

5 Trade Network Splintering and Ethnic Homogenization in Liberia and Sierra Leone 118

Part III Production Networks Act on Violent Actors

6 Multipolar Trade and Rural-Urban Violence in Maoist India 131

7 Trade Networks and the Management of the Combat Frontier 155

Part IV Conclusion

8 Interstitial Economies 169

9 Into an Urban World 182.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198792598

019879259X

OCLC:

965760006