War & the politics of identity in Ethiopia making enemies & allies in the Horn of Africa
"Images of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa. Filtered through a limited set of sources - mostly international media - the information on African wars is confined to narrow categories of explanation emerging from and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
James Currey
2009.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Eastern Africa series. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39840487*spi |
| Sumario: | "Images of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa. Filtered through a limited set of sources - mostly international media - the information on African wars is confined to narrow categories of explanation emerging from and adapted to a Western history and political culture. This book aims at reversing this process; to look at war and suffering from the point of view of those who fight it and suffer through it. In doing so it reveals that the simplistic models explaining contemporary wars in Africa which are reproduced in a Western discourse are basically false." "This book examines the understanding of war and the impact of warfare on the formation and conceptualisation of identities in Ethiopia. Building on historical trajectories of enemy images, the recent Eritrean-Ethiopian war (1998-2000) is used as an empirical backdrop to explore war's formative impact, by analysing the politics of identity and shifting perceptions of enemies and allies." --Book Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 220-231) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781846157769 |
