The Violence of Democracy
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Köp båda 2 för 716 kr"Drawing on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in a Glebo community outside Harper, Liberia in the early 1980s, and her continued contact with Liberians in West Africa and in the diaspora, Liberia: The Violence of Democracy takes aim at the popular and scholarly tendency to treat violence and representative democracy as polar opposites. . . .Moran offers a compelling Africanist case study to be read in conjunction with the Europeanist political philosophy of thinkers like Jacques Rancire or Giorgio Agamben. This is, however, an extremely accessible book, and its greatest contribution may come if and when it is picked up by policymakers and the staff of international NGOs." * <i>Journal of Contemporary African Studies</i> *
Mary H. Moran is Professor of Anthropology and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University. She is the author of Civilized Women: Gender and Prestige in Southeastern Liberia.
Introduction: Liberia, Violence, and Democracy 1. The Case for Indigenous Democracy 2. Contested Histories 3. Civilization and the Liberian Nation 4. The Promise and Terror of Elections 5. The Lock on the Outhouse Door: Discourses of Development 6. The Crisis of Youth and the Promise of the Future 7. Conclusion: A Wedding and a Funeral References Index Acknowledgments