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This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on 'crises' in this book draws attention to the intense socio-transformations in the region over the last three decades. Contemporary crises and changes in the region provoke a challenge to accepted ways of understanding and imagining socio-political life in the region - whether at the level of subnational and national communities, or international and regional structures of interest, such as refugees, weapon trafficking, cross-border military incursions, regional security, and transnational epidemics. This book explores and transcends the central explanatory tropes that have oriented research on the region and re-evaluates them in the light of the contemporary structural dynamics of crises, changes and continuities.
Contents
1. Introduction: Deconstructing Tropes of Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea .- Part I (Re-)Configuration of Identifications and Alliances .- 2. Poro Society, Migration and Political Incorporation on the Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone .- 3. Challenging the Classical Parameters of 'Doing Host-Refugee Politics': The Case of Casamance Refugees in The Gambia .- 4. Betterment versus Complicity: Struggling with Patron-Client Logica in Sierra Leone .- 5. Kinship Tropes as Critique of Patronage in Post-War Sierra Leone.- Part II Challenging Conventions of Explaining and Situating Violent Conflict .- 6. Grand Narratives of Crisis: Grand Narratives of Crisis: Customary Conflicts as a Factor in the Liberian Civil War and Implications for Policy .- 7. Historicizing as a Legal Trope of Jeopardy in Asylum Narratives and Expert Testimonies of Gender-Based Violence .- 8. Revisiting Tropes of Environmental and Social Change in Casamance, Senegal .- 9. Casamance Secession: National Narrativesof Marginalization and Integration.- Part III (Re-)Contextualizing Postcolonial Statehood and National Belonging .- 10. Transcending Traditional Tropes: Autochthony as a Discourse of Conflict and Integration in Post-war Krio/Non-Krio Relations in Sierra Leone .- 11. Ethnicity as Trope of Political Belonging and Conflict: Cape Verdean Identity and Agency in Guinea-Bissau .- 12. Dynamics in the Host-Stranger Paradigm: The Broker Role of a Latecomer Association in Western Côte d'Ivoire.- Part IV (Re-)Conceptualizing Development and Intervention .- 13. Roads as Imaginary for Employing Idle Youth in the Post-Conflict Liberian State .- 14. Tropes, Networks and Higher Education in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone: Policy Formation at the University of Makeni .- 15. Bulletproofing: Small Arms, International Law, and Spiritual Security in the Gambia.
