Research Catalog

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Description

1. xxv, 238 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm

Subject

1. Nations Unies > Côte d'Ivoire
2. 2002-2007
3. Décolonisation > Afrique
4. Décolonisation > Influence
5. Autochtones > Politique et gouvernement > Afrique occidentale
6. Conflits de basse intensité > Afrique occidentale
7. Maintien de la paix > Côte d'Ivoire
8. Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Côte d'Ivoire
9. Côte d'Ivoire > History > Civil War, 2002-2007
10. Côte d'Ivoire
11. Côte d'Ivoire > Conditions économiques > 1960- ..
12. Côte d'Ivoire > 2002-2007 (Guerre civile)
13. Côte d'Ivoire > Politique et gouvernement > 1993-2011

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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?

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.