Epistemologies of African Conflicts - Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone

Informationen zum Autor ZUBAIRU WAI is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University, Canada. Klappentext This book offers a bold, ground-breaking epistemological critique of the dominant discourses on African conflicts. Based on a painstaking study of the ways in which the Sierra Leone civil war has been interpreted, it considers how Africa is constructed as a site of knowledge and the implications that this has for the continent and its people. Zusammenfassung This book offers a bold! ground-breaking epistemological critique of the dominant discourses on African conflicts. Based on a painstaking study of the ways in which the Sierra Leone civil war has been interpreted! it considers how Africa is constructed as a site of knowledge and the implications that this has for the continent and its people. Inhaltsverzeichnis Sierra Leone, Conflict and the Will to Truth Evolutionism and the Africanist Project The Idea of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone: A Decade of War The Conflict of Interpretations Sierra Leone Inflections and Amplifications Coda: Africanism, Conflicts and the Will to Truth

Product details

• Authors: Z Wai, Z. Wai, Zubairu Wai, Zubairu Wai Wai
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2015
• EAN: 9781349447879
• ISBN: 978-1-349-44787-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Peace, Conflict Studies, Political Science, Africa, Political Philosophy, International Relations, Political Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, African Politics, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Africa—Politics and government, Peace and Conflict Studies, Civil War;conflict;conflicts;knowledge;violence