Making War in Cote D'Ivoire

Name: Making War in Cote D'Ivoire
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ISBN: 9780226514604

ISBN-10: 0226514609

ISBN-13: 9780226514604

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mike McGovern

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Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Mike McGovern is an assistant sports editor and columnist for the Reading Eagle and Reading Times in Reading, PA. He lives in Pennsylvania.



List of Figures


Glossary of Acronyms


Preface and Acknowledgments



Introduction: Socialists and Skinheads


Abidjan, 2003


Cï¿½te d'lvoire and the Politics of Identity


A Chronology of the Crisis


Plan of the Book



Pillage and Principle: Making Distinctions in a Frontier Zone


Thirdness


Ecology and Economy


Personhood


Warfare


Conclusion



The Politics of Ressentiment


Strangers and Hosts Along the Upper Guinea Coast


The Rights of the Autochthones and Imposition of the State in the Cocoa-producing West


Planters, but Not Mediocre Planters


Autochthones' Prerogatives and the Fantasy of 'Turning the Clock Back to Zero'


'On Peut Instrumentaliser Une Rï¿½alitï¿½': The Development of an Ivorian Politics of Ressentiment


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 Coupï¿½ Dï¿½calï¿½


'This is Play'


'La Deuxiï¿½me Guerre D'indï¿½pendance' 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 Filiï¿½re


The History of the Filiï¿½re


Intergenerational Tensions


The Filiï¿½re Restructured and Ready to do Business


From 'L'or Brun' to 'L'or Noir': The Reintroduction of Oil Production in 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?



Conclusion


Looking Ahead


History and Agency


When Does War Fail?


Afterword


Bibliography


Index