Violence and Belonging : The Quest for Identity in Post-Colonial Africa

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Violence and Belonging explores the formative role of violence in shaping people's identities in modern postcolonial Africa.

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Violence and belonging : analytical reflections	p. 1
'Nowadays they can even kill you for that which they feel is theirs' : gender and the production of ethnic identity in Kikuyu-speaking Central Kenya	p. 41
Conflicts in context : political violence and anthropological puzzles	p. 60
Hunger, violence and the moral economy of war in Zimbabwe	p. 75
Violence and the boundaries of belonging : comparing two border disputes in the South African lowveld	p. 91
Fertile mortal links : reconsidering Barabaig violence	p. 112
'Food itself is fighting with us' : a comparative analysis of the impact of Sudan's civil war on South Sudanese civilian populations located in the north and the south	p. 131
The politics of identity and the remembrance of violence : ethnicity and gender at the installation of a female chief in Zimbabwe	p. 153
Double-voiced violence in Kenya	p. 173
Escape from genocide : the politics of identity in Rwanda's massacres	p. 195
Women and the politics of identity : voices in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission	p. 214
Ambiguous identities : the notion of war and 'significant others' among the Tigreans of Ethiopia	p. 236
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