Rethinking Resistance: Revolt and Violence in African HistoryGerrit Jan Abbink, Mirjam De Bruijn, Klaas Van Walraven BRILL, 2003 - 368 pages Revolts and violence have always been features of African history but questions frequently still remain as to what and who the targets of resistance were. This volume reviews the subject of resistance in the light of current scholarly thought. Were political forms of resistance directed at the imposition or ending of colonial rule or at African elites profiting from the onset of capitalist relations of production? Or did they have purely sociological or religious roots? With contributions from historians, anthropologists and political scientists, Rethinking Resistance analyzes the concepts of resistance, violence and ideological imagination, and has chapters on uprisings and revolts in nineteenth-century pre-colonial societies and early colonial Africa, post-colonial rebellions and more recent and contemporary conflicts. |
Table des matières
An introduction | 1 |
Resistance to Fulbe hegemony in nineteenthcentury West Africa | 43 |
Who resisted what? | 69 |
The Patriots | 87 |
Ambiguities of resistance and collaboration on the Eastern | 117 |
Slave resistance under German | 170 |
The Kawousan War reconsidered | 191 |
Narrative and meaning | 218 |
The vagaries of violence and power in postcolonial Mozambique | 253 |
Politics and memory | 279 |
Selective memories on war | 305 |
Cycles of rebellion | 328 |
List of authors 367 | |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
According action activities administration African Agadez areas armed army attack authorities became British cause central century chapter chiefs claimed clan colonial commanders considered continued cultural Djibo domination Dutch early East economic established Ethiopia European example fact fighting forces foreign French Fulbe genocide German groups guerrillas Herero identity ideology important independence interests internal involved Islam issue Italian Italy Kawousan labour land later leaders liberation living London Madagascar majority memory military movement Namibia nationalist nature Niger official organization original party Patriots period political population position rebellion rebels received recruitment region relations religious Renamo resistance respect result revolt River role rule Sawaba Settlement settlers slaves social society soldiers Somali South southern status structure struggle Studies SWAPO trade traditional troops United violence West women Xhosa
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Rethinking Resistance: Revolt and Violence in African History Volume 2 de African Dynamics, 2 |
| Rédacteurs | Gerrit Jan Abbink, Mirjam De Bruijn, Klaas Van Walraven |
| Édition | illustrée |
| Éditeur | BRILL, 2003 |
| ISBN | 9004126244, 9789004126244 |
| Longueur | 368 pages |
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