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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 mostly international media the information of African wars is confined to narrow categories of explanation emergi.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tronvoll, Kjetil
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2009.
Series:Eastern African studies (London, England)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Making Enemies & Allies
  • Land, Hierarchy & Alliances in Highland Ethiopia
  • Historical Trajectories of enemy images
  • Alternating Enemies & Allies : Ethnicity in Play
  • War Behind the Front Lines : Individual Approaches
  • Reconstructing 'Ethiopianness' : Competing Nationalisms
  • Ethiopia & its Malcontents : Purifying the Nation
  • Arresting Ethiopian Nationalism
  • Postscript : After War, New Enemies.