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Mediations of violence in Africa

fashioning new futures from contested pasts

ed. by Lidwien Kapteijns ; Annemiek Richters

Buch

englisch

Kapteijns, Lidwien (Ed.) DNB
Richters, Annemiek (Ed.) DNB

Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies

5

Brill

Leiden [u.a.]

2010

XVIII, 265 p. 

978-90-04-18536-4

Includes bibliographical references and index.

war
history
case study
africa
violence

Contents: Making memories of Mogadishu in Somali poetry about the civil war / Lidwien Kapteijns -- The road, the song and the citizen : singing after violence in KwaZulu-Natal / Liz Gunner -- Maisha bora, kwa nani? A cool life, for whom? Mediations of masculinity, ethnicity, and violence in a Nairobi slum / Naomi van Stapele -- Testimonies of suffering and recasting the meanings of memories of violence in post-war Mozambique / Victor Igreja -- Suffering and healing in the aftermath of war and genocide in Rwanda : mediations through community-based sociotherapy / Annemiek Richters -- "The balsak in the roof " : bush war experiences and mediations as related by white South African conscripts / Diana Gibson.
Summary:
Kapteijns (history, Wellesley College, US) and Richters (culture, health, and illness; Leiden U. Medical Center and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research; the Netherlands) present six papers that are unified around the theme of mediation of violence in Africa, with mediation referring to "a process that connects and translates disparate worlds, people, imaginations, values, and ideas, whether in its symbolic, social, or technological form," although in this volume the emphasis lies on discursive dimensions. Coming from the fields of medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, performance and cultural studies, and cultural and social history, contributors discuss Somali poetry as memory-making and the collapse of the Somali state in 1991, Zulu song and memories of the violence between Inkatha and the African National Congress in South Africa, young men's narratives of "ethnic" violence in Nairobi in 2007, narratives of violence of the Mozambican civil war of 1976-1992, mediation of violence in Rwanda through a community-based sociotherapy program in the Byumba region, and mediated memories of violence among white former conscripts of the South African Defense Force who fought along the border between Namibia and Angola between 1966 and 1989. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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