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Book Synopsis Living by the Gun in Chad by : Marielle Debos
Download or read book Living by the Gun in Chad written by Marielle Debos and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people live in a country that has experienced rebellions and state-organised repressions for decades and that is still marked by routine forms of violence and impunity? What do combatants do when they are not mobilised for war? Drawing on over ten years of fieldwork conducted in Chad, Marielle Debos explains how living by the gun has become both an acceptable form of political expression and an everyday occupation. Contrary to the popular association of violence and chaos, she shows that these fighters continue to observe rules, frontiers and hierarchies, even as their allegiances shift between rebel and government forces, and as they drift between Chad, Libya, Sudan and the Central African Republic. Going further, she explores the role of the globalised politico-military entrepreneurs and highlights the long involvement of the French military in the country. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that ending the war is not enough. The issue is ending the 'inter-war' which is maintained and reproduced by state violence. Combining ethnographic observation with in-depth theoretical analysis, Living by the Gun in Chad is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the intersections of war and peace.
Book Synopsis Living by the Gun in Chad by : Marielle Debos
Download or read book Living by the Gun in Chad written by Marielle Debos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people live in a country that has experienced rebellions and state-organised repressions for decades and that is still marked by routine forms of violence and impunity? What do combatants do when they are not mobilised for war? Drawing on over ten years of fieldwork conducted in Chad, Marielle Debos explains how living by the gun has become both an acceptable form of political expression and an everyday occupation. Contrary to the popular association of violence and chaos, she shows that these fighters continue to observe rules, frontiers and hierarchies, even as their allegiances shift between rebel and government forces, and as they drift between Chad, Libya, Sudan and the Central African Republic. Going further, she explores the role of the globalised politico-military entrepreneurs and highlights the long involvement of the French military in the country. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that ending the war is not enough. The issue is ending the 'inter-war' which is maintained and reproduced by state violence. Combining ethnographic observation with in-depth theoretical analysis, Living by the Gun in Chad is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the intersections of war and peace.
Book Synopsis Living by the Gun in Chad by : Marielle Debos
Download or read book Living by the Gun in Chad written by Marielle Debos and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the foremost experts on the country, this book shows how armed violence has become both an ordinary form of political struggle and a practical occupation.
Book Synopsis Searching for Boko Haram by : Scott MacEachern
Download or read book Searching for Boko Haram written by Scott MacEachern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past decade, Boko Haram has relentlessly terrorized northeastern Nigeria. Few if any explanations for the rise of this violent insurgent group look beyond its roots in worldwide jihadism and recent political conflicts in central Africa. Searching for Boko Haram is the first book to examine the insurgency within the context of centuries, millennia even, of cultural change in the region. The book surveys the deep history of the lands south of Lake Chad, richly documented in archaeology and texts, to show how ancient natural and cultural events can aid in our understanding of Boko Haram's present agenda. The land's historical narrative stretches back five centuries, with cultural origins that plunge even deeper into the past. One important feature of this past is the phenomenon of frontiers and borderlands. In striking ways, Boko Haram resembles the frontier slave raiders and warlords who figure in precolonial and colonial writings on the southern Lake Chad Basin. Presently, these accounts are paralleled by the activity of smugglers, bandits (coupeurs de route--"road cutters"), and tax evaders. The borderlands of these countries are today places where the state often refuses to exercise its full authority because of the profits and opportunities illicit relationships afford state officials and bureaucrats. For the local community, Boko Haram's actions are readily understandable in terms of slave raids and borderlands. They are not mysterious and unprecedented eruptions of violence and savagery, but--as the book argues--recognizable phenomena within the contexts of local politics and history. Written from the perspective of an author who has worked in this part of Africa for more than thirty years, Searching for Boko Haram provides vital historical context to the recent rise of this terroristic force, and counters misperceptions of their activities and of the region as a whole.
Book Synopsis The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures by : Ryan Shaffer
Download or read book The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures written by Ryan Shaffer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a group of international scholars, The Handbook of African Intelligence Cultures provides the first review of intelligence cultures in every African country. It explores how intelligence cultures are influenced by a range of factors, including past and present societal, governmental and international dynamics. In doing so, the book examines the state’s role, civil society and foreign relations in shaping African countries’ intelligence norms, activities and oversight. It also explores the role intelligence services and cultures play in government and civil society.
Book Synopsis An Archive of Possibilities by : Rachel Marie Niehuus
Download or read book An Archive of Possibilities written by Rachel Marie Niehuus and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Archive of Possibilities, anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus explores possibilities of healing and repair in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo against a backdrop of 250 years of Black displacement, enslavement, death, and chronic war. Niehuus argues that in a context in which violence characterizes everyday life, Congolese have developed innovative and imaginative ways to live amid and mend from repetitive harm. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and the Black critical theory of Achille Mbembe, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and others, Niehuus explores the renegotiation of relationships with land as a form of public healing, the affective experience of living in insecurity, the hospital as a site for the socialization of pain, the possibility of necropolitical healing, and the uses of prophesy to create collective futures. By considering the radical nature of cohabitating with violence, Niehuus demonstrates that Congolese practices of healing imagine and articulate alternative ways of living in a global regime of antiblackness.
Book Synopsis France's Wars in Chad by : Nathaniel K. Powell
Download or read book France's Wars in Chad written by Nathaniel K. Powell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines twenty years of French military interventions in Chad and Hissène Habré's rise to power between 1960 and 1982.
Book Synopsis Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel by : Leonardo A. Villalón
Download or read book Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel written by Leonardo A. Villalón and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long on the periphery of both academic research and international attention, the countries of the West African Sahel currently find themselves at the center of global concerns over security, terrorism, migration, and conflict. Since the early 1990s the Sahelian states have also been engaged in political struggles over the construction of democratic institutions. Edited by Leonardo A. Villalón and Abdourahmane Idrissa, Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel addresses a key and little-studied question: How have the politics of democratization across the Francophone Sahel shaped processes of state-building, and with what effects on the resilience of state institutions? Starting from the premise that variation in the politics of institution building and institutional reform—although most frequently justified and debated in terms of democratization—have differing impact on the construction of resilient states , this book examines these processes in six francophone states of the Sahel: Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad. The contributors represent a set of distinguished scholars from across the region, many of whom have also been important actors in the struggles they analyze.
Book Synopsis The Security Arena in Africa by : Tim Glawion
Download or read book The Security Arena in Africa written by Tim Glawion and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on in-depth fieldwork, Tim Glawion explores how local security functions in some of the world's most fragile states across Central and East Africa.
Book Synopsis General Labour History of Africa by : Stefano Bellucci
Download or read book General Labour History of Africa written by Stefano Bellucci and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
Book Synopsis Western Intervention and Informal Politics by : Troels Burchall Henningsen
Download or read book Western Intervention and Informal Politics written by Troels Burchall Henningsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the political and military dynamic between threatened local regimes and Western powers, and it argues that the power of informal politics forces local regimes to simulate statebuilding. Reforms enabling local states to take care of their own terrorist and insurgency threats are a blueprint for most Western interventions to provide a way out of protracted internal conflicts. Yet, local regimes most often fail to implement reforms that would have strengthened their hand. This book examines why local regimes derail the reforms demanded by Western powers when they rely on their support to stay in power during existentially threatening violent crises. Based on the political settlement framework, the author analyses how web-like networks of militarized elites require local regimes to use informal politics to stay in power. Four case studies of Western intervention are presented: Iraq (2011-2018), Mali (2011-2020), Chad (2005-2010), and Algeria (1991-2000). These studies demonstrate that informal politics narrows strategic possibilities and forces regimes to rely on coup-proofing military strategies, to continue their alliances with militias and former insurgents, and to simulate statebuilding reforms to solve the dilemma of satisfying militarized elites and Western powers at the same time. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, international intervention, counter-insurgency, civil wars, and international relations.
Book Synopsis Black Gun, Silver Star by : Art T. Burton
Download or read book Black Gun, Silver Star written by Art T. Burton and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the "most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country." That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslaved in Arkansas and Texas made his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Black Gun, Silver Star sifts through fact and legend to discover the truth about one of the most outstanding peace officers in late nineteenth-century America--and perhaps the greatest lawman of the Wild West era. Bucking the odds ("I'm sorry, we didn't keep Black people's history," a clerk at one of Oklahoma's local historical societies answered one query), Art T. Burton traces Reeves from his days of slavery to his Civil War soldiering to his career as a deputy U.S. marshal out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, when he worked under "Hanging Judge" Isaac C. Parker. Fluent in Creek and other regional Native languages, physically powerful, skilled with firearms, and a master of disguise, Reeves was exceptionally adept at apprehending fugitives and outlaws and his exploits were legendary in Oklahoma and Arkansas. In this new edition Burton traces Reeves's presence in the national media of his day as well as his growing modern presence in popular media such as television, movies, comics, and video games.
Author :Jai Anthony Jones Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781523917464 Total Pages :334 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (174 download)
Book Synopsis Live by the Gun Die by the Gun 1 by : Jai Anthony Jones
Download or read book Live by the Gun Die by the Gun 1 written by Jai Anthony Jones and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS A FICTION BOOK BASED ON A TRUE STORY. THIS IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A HARD TIME FIGURING OUT THE LIFE OF ANY OF THEIR LOVE ONES WHO DWELL IN THE STREET LIFE. FOR THOSE THAT GLORIFY THE STREET LIFE;THIS IS A SELF HELP BOOK. FOR THOSE THAT GET INCARCERATED FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, LET ME BE THE FIRST TO TELL YOU NOT TO BE UPSET THAT SOMEONE DOESNT PUT THEIR LIFE ON HOLD TO CATER TO YOU. KNOW WHAT YOU GETTING IN TO BECAUSE YOU MIGHT BECOME THE PERSON YOU DESPISE SO MUCH. A RAT! OH YEAH..AND WHEN YOU GET SHOT THAT SHIT HURT. This story begins with 1/2 Pint & Chevy who vowed to never coexist on the wicked streets of LOS ANGELES. SOMEONE HAS TO DIE! During Pints decade of FEDERAL incarceration he anticipated his revenge on the person who killed his road dog (bestfriend) as much as he anticipated his release date. But in life every coin has a flip side and Chevy was also eagerly waiting 1/2 Pints arrivial while death was waiting to cut the check on either one of their lives. It seemed to be inevitable until the unexpected occurred causing them to merge in a way that made the world witness what the streets been praying for. But how long will the peace last. Does real recognize real or is fake the new real? ENJOY THE BOOK.
Download or read book MFA vs NYC written by Chad Harbach and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers write—but what do they do for money? In a widely read essay entitled "MFA vs NYC," bestselling novelist Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding) argued that the American literary scene has split into two cultures: New York publishing versus university MFA programs. This book brings together established writers, MFA professors and students, and New York editors, publicists, and agents to talk about these overlapping worlds, and the ways writers make (or fail to make) a living within them. Should you seek an advanced degree, or will workshops smother your style? Do you need to move to New York, or will the high cost of living undo you? What's worse—having a day job or not having health insurance? How do agents decide what to represent? Will Big Publishing survive? How has the rise of MFA programs affected American fiction? The expert contributors, including George Saunders, Elif Batuman, and Fredric Jameson, consider all these questions and more, with humor and rigor. MFA vs NYC is a must-read for aspiring writers, and for anyone interested in the present and future of American letters.
Book Synopsis Firearms and Violence in American Life by : George D. Newton
Download or read book Firearms and Violence in American Life written by George D. Newton and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living by the Gun written by Bart Hopkins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cray and Collins are FBI agents in a small, elite unit chasing the flimsiest of shadows across the country. They are two people undeniably shaped by the events that have forged this nation and committed to seeing it continue. They are, like few others, living by the gun.
Book Synopsis Last Chance by : Chester A.“Chet” Ballard
Download or read book Last Chance written by Chester A.“Chet” Ballard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-04-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Chance is a novel about a young boy named Chad who loses his entire family in a massacre. His only hope for survival is to flee into the wilderness with the familys Apache housekeeper and pray that her tribe will let him live with them. Chad has to grow up quickly if he is to survive among the Apaches. The hatred for the ones who killed his family burns inside him and the thought of revenge haunts him constantly. As he learns the Apache way of life, Chad does his best to keep the memories of his past alive. He is trapped between two turbulent worlds, that of the white man and of the Apache. Last Chance is also a story of the bonding of two people, an Apache Chief and a small white boy. Under ordinary circumstances, they would be mortal enemies. But, these are not ordinary times. Last Chance is also a heartwarming story of these two as they spend more and more time together and discover that they need each other more than they ever thought possible. Although Last Chance is a western, readers of other genre will enjoy this book.
