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Liberia : The Violence of Democracy /
This book argues that democracy is not a foreign import into Africa, but that essential aspects of what we in the West consider democratic values are part of the indigenous African traditions of legitimacy and political process. In the case of Liberia, these democratic traditions include institution...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press
2006
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| Colección: | Ethnography of political violence.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a Liberia : |b The Violence of Democracy / |c Mary H. Moran. |
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| 490 | 0 | |a The ethnography of political violence | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-178) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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| 520 | |a This book argues that democracy is not a foreign import into Africa, but that essential aspects of what we in the West consider democratic values are part of the indigenous African traditions of legitimacy and political process. In the case of Liberia, these democratic traditions include institutionalized checks and balances operating at the local level that allow for the voices of structural subordinates (women and younger men) to be heard and be effective in making claims. Mary H. Moran argues that the violence and state collapse that have beset Liberia and the surrounding region in the past two decades cannot be attributed to ancient tribal hatreds or neopatrimonial leaders who are simply a modern version of traditional chiefs. Rather, democracy and violence are intersecting themes in Liberian history that have manifested themselves in numerous contexts over the years."--Book jacket. | ||
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