African guerrillas; raging against the machine.9781588264954 African guerrillas; raging against the machine. Ed. by Morten Boas Bo·as , Franz 1858-1942. German-born American anthropologist who emphasized the systematic analysis of culture and language structures. and Kevin C. Dunn. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 2007 275 pages $58.00 Hardcover DT30 Christopher Clapham's 1998 collection African Guerillas, prior to this collection by Boas (Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway) and Dunn (political science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, are together a liberal arts college. The Colleges adhere to a "coordinate system", which retains some elements of the original single-sex institutions, though the student experience is largely co-ed. , US), was the only attempt to study African insurgent INSURGENT. One who is concerned in an insurrection. He differs from a rebel in this, that rebel is always understood in a bad sense, or one who unjustly opposes the constituted authorities; insurgent may be one who justly opposes the tyranny of constituted authorities. movements in a comparative manner in the field of political science and set out a typology typology /ty·pol·o·gy/ (ti-pol´ah-je) the study of types; the science of classifying, as bacteria according to type. typology the study of types; the science of classifying, as bacteria according to type. of African insurgencies: liberation insurgencies, separatist insurgencies, reform insurgencies, and warlord warlord, in modern Chinese history, autonomous regional military commander. In the political chaos following the death (1916) of republican China's first president and commander in chief, Yüan Shih-kai, central authority fell to the provincial military governors insurgencies. Suggesting that only the last of these have been very prominent in debates recently because of the difficulties of fitting other insurgencies into the other categories, they revisit re·vis·it tr.v. re·vis·it·ed, re·vis·it·ing, re·vis·its To visit again. n. A second or repeated visit. re the insights of African Guerillas and argue for a more nuanced approach that goes beyond single-factor explanations and understands insurgencies as rational responses to the composition of African states and their politics and recognizes war and peace as part of continuum. Their collection combines both thematic essays on marginalized youth, separatism, and the politics of African guerillas and case studies of guerilla movements in Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Senegal, and Angola. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion