Africa's Insurgents : Navigating an Evolving Landscape.
Bøås, Morten.
Africa's Insurgents : Navigating an Evolving Landscape. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (293 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1- The Evolving Landscape of African Insurgencies -- Competing and Shifting Systems of Governance -- The Increasing Importance of Big Men -- Increasingly Complex Local/Global Connections -- Ideology or Global Brand? -- Beyond Elites to Participants: Youth, Gender, Radicalization, and Violence -- Toward Nuanced, In-Depth, Middle-Range Theorizing -- Chapter 2- Radicalized Youth: Oppositional Poses and Positions -- Osama in the Morning, Tupac at Night -- Situationality and the Radical Pose -- Images of a Dead Man -- Photograph 2.1 Diamond Miner from Kamakwie -- Photograph 2.2 Foday's Room -- Photograph 2.3 Kiosk in Pentagon, Freetown -- Photograph 2.4 Sisqo on the Street Corner -- Global Closures and the Radical Realizations -- The Disillusioned European -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3- Gendered Dynamics of Armed Insurgencies -- Women in Armed Insurgencies -- Sexual and Gender-Based Violence -- Neglected Queries:Gender and "Militarized Gender Norms" -- Uncomfortable Subjects:Male (Particularly Military) Victims of Violence -- Making Sense of the Silences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4- Secessionist Conflicts and New States -- African Secessionist Conflicts -- Explaining South Sudan -- Types of Legal Conductors and Their Accessibility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5- Central African Republic: Rebellion and International Intervention -- Overview of Central African Statism and Rebellion -- The Fetishized State in International Intervention -- Crosscutting Ties in Rebellion and Intervention -- DDR and the Feeding of Statist Expectations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6- Democratic Republic of Congo: The Democratization of Militarized Politics -- Historical Roots:Armed Rebellion from Precolonial Times to the 1960s. Ethnic Agendas and Political Turmoil in the 1990s -- The Two Congo Wars, 1996-2003 -- From Conflict to Peace? A Volatile Transition, 2003-2006 -- Post-transitional Trouble, 2006-2008 -- Shaking Up the Political-Military Landscape, 2009-2010 -- Regimentation and Elections: Ongoing Fragmentation, 2011-2012 -- The M23 Crisis and Its Aftermath: The Democratization of Militarized Politics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7- Kenya: Al-Shabaab's Regional Campaign -- The Context of Political Violence and Insurgency in Kenya -- Al-Shabaab Network in Kenya, 2005-2011 -- Al-Shabaab Targeting of Kenya -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8- Mali: Islam, Arms, and Money -- The Social Landscape of Northern Mali -- Kidal: The Epicenter of Tuareg Rebellion -- Iyad Ag Ghaly: The Evolution of a Sahel Big Man -- 2012: Ansar ed-Dine and MNLA -- AQIM and MUJAO: Origins and Fractures -- MUJAO -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9- Nigeria: The Adaptability of the Boko Haram Rebellion -- Incarnations of Boko Haram -- Manipulation of Narratives -- Waging War Against the Education Sector -- Transition from Pro-State to Anti-State -- The Loss of Local Legitimacy -- The Chibok Tragedy -- Reading into Boko Haram's Friendship with the Islamic State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10- Somalia: Al-Shabaab and the Accidental Jihadists -- The Accidental Jihadi -- The Rise of al-Shabaab and the Allies in Their Struggle -- The Post-Sharia Court Phase -- Al-Shabaab Doing Governance -- The Decline of al-Shabaab?Still Room for the Accidental Guerrillas? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11- South Sudan: Violence as Politics -- The Thin Line Between State, Party, and Army -- The Short Walk from Politics to Wealth Accumulation -- The Co-optation of Armed Opposition -- Violence as Politics at the Periphery -- Violence as Politics in Pibor -- Violence as Politics in Lafon/Lopa -- Conclusion -- Notes. Chapter 12- Uganda: The Longevity ofthe Lord's Resistance Army -- The LRA Enigma and Kony as a "Man out of Time" -- The LRA and Its Evolving Landscape: A Brief History -- Post-2008 LRA: The ICC, Kony 2012, and the Wilderness -- Conclusion: A Man Out of Time -- Notes -- Chapter 13-Africa's Insurgents in Comparative Perspective -- Insurgencies as Alternative Modalities of Governance -- Importance of Big Men -- Interrogating the Local/Regional/Global Connectivity -- Understanding Individual Insurgents -- Some Final Comments on Future Research Agendas -- Acronyms -- References -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book -- Untitled.
No detailed description available for "Africas Insurgents".
9781626376526
Insurgency--Africa.
Electronic books.
DT30.5.A375 2017
355.0218096
Africa's Insurgents : Navigating an Evolving Landscape. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (293 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1- The Evolving Landscape of African Insurgencies -- Competing and Shifting Systems of Governance -- The Increasing Importance of Big Men -- Increasingly Complex Local/Global Connections -- Ideology or Global Brand? -- Beyond Elites to Participants: Youth, Gender, Radicalization, and Violence -- Toward Nuanced, In-Depth, Middle-Range Theorizing -- Chapter 2- Radicalized Youth: Oppositional Poses and Positions -- Osama in the Morning, Tupac at Night -- Situationality and the Radical Pose -- Images of a Dead Man -- Photograph 2.1 Diamond Miner from Kamakwie -- Photograph 2.2 Foday's Room -- Photograph 2.3 Kiosk in Pentagon, Freetown -- Photograph 2.4 Sisqo on the Street Corner -- Global Closures and the Radical Realizations -- The Disillusioned European -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3- Gendered Dynamics of Armed Insurgencies -- Women in Armed Insurgencies -- Sexual and Gender-Based Violence -- Neglected Queries:Gender and "Militarized Gender Norms" -- Uncomfortable Subjects:Male (Particularly Military) Victims of Violence -- Making Sense of the Silences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4- Secessionist Conflicts and New States -- African Secessionist Conflicts -- Explaining South Sudan -- Types of Legal Conductors and Their Accessibility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5- Central African Republic: Rebellion and International Intervention -- Overview of Central African Statism and Rebellion -- The Fetishized State in International Intervention -- Crosscutting Ties in Rebellion and Intervention -- DDR and the Feeding of Statist Expectations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6- Democratic Republic of Congo: The Democratization of Militarized Politics -- Historical Roots:Armed Rebellion from Precolonial Times to the 1960s. Ethnic Agendas and Political Turmoil in the 1990s -- The Two Congo Wars, 1996-2003 -- From Conflict to Peace? A Volatile Transition, 2003-2006 -- Post-transitional Trouble, 2006-2008 -- Shaking Up the Political-Military Landscape, 2009-2010 -- Regimentation and Elections: Ongoing Fragmentation, 2011-2012 -- The M23 Crisis and Its Aftermath: The Democratization of Militarized Politics -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7- Kenya: Al-Shabaab's Regional Campaign -- The Context of Political Violence and Insurgency in Kenya -- Al-Shabaab Network in Kenya, 2005-2011 -- Al-Shabaab Targeting of Kenya -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8- Mali: Islam, Arms, and Money -- The Social Landscape of Northern Mali -- Kidal: The Epicenter of Tuareg Rebellion -- Iyad Ag Ghaly: The Evolution of a Sahel Big Man -- 2012: Ansar ed-Dine and MNLA -- AQIM and MUJAO: Origins and Fractures -- MUJAO -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9- Nigeria: The Adaptability of the Boko Haram Rebellion -- Incarnations of Boko Haram -- Manipulation of Narratives -- Waging War Against the Education Sector -- Transition from Pro-State to Anti-State -- The Loss of Local Legitimacy -- The Chibok Tragedy -- Reading into Boko Haram's Friendship with the Islamic State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10- Somalia: Al-Shabaab and the Accidental Jihadists -- The Accidental Jihadi -- The Rise of al-Shabaab and the Allies in Their Struggle -- The Post-Sharia Court Phase -- Al-Shabaab Doing Governance -- The Decline of al-Shabaab?Still Room for the Accidental Guerrillas? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 11- South Sudan: Violence as Politics -- The Thin Line Between State, Party, and Army -- The Short Walk from Politics to Wealth Accumulation -- The Co-optation of Armed Opposition -- Violence as Politics at the Periphery -- Violence as Politics in Pibor -- Violence as Politics in Lafon/Lopa -- Conclusion -- Notes. Chapter 12- Uganda: The Longevity ofthe Lord's Resistance Army -- The LRA Enigma and Kony as a "Man out of Time" -- The LRA and Its Evolving Landscape: A Brief History -- Post-2008 LRA: The ICC, Kony 2012, and the Wilderness -- Conclusion: A Man Out of Time -- Notes -- Chapter 13-Africa's Insurgents in Comparative Perspective -- Insurgencies as Alternative Modalities of Governance -- Importance of Big Men -- Interrogating the Local/Regional/Global Connectivity -- Understanding Individual Insurgents -- Some Final Comments on Future Research Agendas -- Acronyms -- References -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book -- Untitled.
No detailed description available for "Africas Insurgents".
9781626376526
Insurgency--Africa.
Electronic books.
DT30.5.A375 2017
355.0218096