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Mediations of Violence in Africa: Fashioning New Futures from Contested Pasts (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, 5) by Lidwien Kapteijns; Annemiek Richters; Johanna Maria Richters is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mediations of Violence in Africa: Fashioning New Futures from Contested Pasts (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, 5) about?
This book analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of African people who experienced and witnessed it. Central to it are the words of (male) Somali poets, Zulu singers, impoverished Kenyan youth, and white South African war veterans, as well as men and women trying to refashion their lives and relationships in post-war Mozambique and Rwanda. Purposefully interdisciplinary, this volume brings together scholarly approaches ranging from cultural and medical anthropology, social/cultural history, and cultural and performance studies.
Who reads Mediations of Violence in Africa: Fashioning New Futures from Contested Pasts (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, 5)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lidwien Kapteijns; Annemiek Richters; Johanna Maria Richters
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612952784
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, Sociology
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