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Resources 

Anthropology of Conflict

Lubkemann, S., (2008), Culture in chaos, an anthropology of the social condition of war; University of Chicago Press.

Nordstrom, C., (1997), A different kind of war story; University of Penn Sylvania Press.

Vigh, H., (2007), Navigating terrains of war, youth soldering in Guinea-Bissau; Berghahn Books.
 

Honwana, A., and de Boek, F., (2005) (eds), Makers and breakers: Children and youth in postcolonial Africa; James Currey: oxford.

 Christiansen, C., Utas, M.,  and  Vigh, H., (2006), Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood Social Becoming in an African Context, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala.

Utas, M., (2005), “Victimicy, girlfriending, soldering: tactic agency in a young woman’s social navigation of the Liberian war zone, Anthropological quarterly. 78 (2).407

Richards, P., (1996), Fighting for the rain forest: War youth and resources in Sierra Leone; New Hampshire: Heinemann.

Conflict Dynamics and rebel governance in Conflict

Justino, P., Brück, T., and Verwimp, P., (eds), (2013) A Micro-Level Perspective on the Dynamics of Conflict, Violence, and Development, Oxford Scholarship online.

Kalyvas, S., (2006) The Logic of Violence in Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bourgois, P., and Schepher-Hughes, H., (2000), Violence in war and peace, an anthology; Blackwell.

Arjona, A., Kasfir, N., and Mampilly, Z., (2015), Rebel governance in civil war; Cambridge University Press.

Democratic Republic of the Congo:

Stearns, J., (2011), Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa; New York.

Trefon, T., and Kabuyaya, N., (2016), Goma Stories of strength and Sorrow from Eastern Congo; Zed Books.

De Herdt, T., and Titeca, K., (2019) Negotiating Public Services in the Congo, State, Society and Governance, Zed Books.

Brabant, J., (2016), Qu’on nous laisse combattre, et la guerre finira, avec les combattants du Kivu, La Découverte : Paris.

Vlassenroot, K., and Raeymaekers, T., (2004), Conflict and Social Transformation in Eastern Congo; Gent University Press.

Büscher, K., (2011), Conflict, state failure and urban transformation in the Eastern Congolese periphery. The case of Goma;  PhD disseration ; Conflict Research Group.

Hendriks, M., (2019), “ ‘My life is like a movie’: making a fiction film as a route to knowledge production on gang political performances in Goma, DR Congo”, Journal of extreme anthropology, 3(1), p.57-76.

Verweijen, J., (2015), “The Ambiguity of Militarization, the complex interaction between the Congolese armed forces and civilians in the Kivu provinces, eastern DR Congo”, PhD Dissertation, Centre for Conflict Studies; Utrecht university.

Autesserre, S., (2010), The Trouble with the Congo, local violence and the failure of International Peacebuilding; Cambridge University Press.

D.R. Congo in Conversation 

Insecure livelihood Series

Suhulu Blog

Usalama Project  Rift Valley Institute

Development & Coloniality: 

Escobar, A., (2012) [1995], Encountering Development, the making and unmaking of the third world, Princeton University Press; Oxford.

Hickel, J., (2017), The Divide, a brief guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions, Windmill Books; London.

Malm, A., (2020), Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency, War Communism in the Twenty-First Century, Verso Pamphlet Series. New York.

Mignolo, W., (2007), “Coloniality: The Darker side of modernity”, Cultural Studies, (21):2-3.

 

Quijano, A., (2000), “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism and Latin America” International Sociology, (15):2.

 

Quijano, A., (2007), “Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality”, Cultural Studies (21): 2-3.

Chang, H.J., (2003), Kicking Away the Ladder Development Strategy in Historical Perspective, Anthem Press: London.

Chang, H., J., (2003),  Rethinking Economic Development Economics, Anthem Press: London.

Chang H., J., (2010), 23 Things they don’t tell you about Capitalism, Penguin Books: London.

McMichael, P., (2016) Development and Social Change a Global Perspective, Sage Publications: California.

Stiglitz, J., (2002), Globalization and its discontents, Penguin Books: London

Race and Post-Colonialism: 

Ahmed, S., (2004) “Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism”, Borderlands, 3(2).


Bhambra, G., K., (2017) “ Brexit, Trump and ‘methodological whiteness’: on the misrecognition of race 
and class’”, British Journal of Sociology, 6.


Bhambra, K., G., (2021), “Colonial global economy: Towards a theoretical reorientation of political 
economy”, Review of International Political Economy. (28):2.


DiAngelo, R., (2018), White Fragility, why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism, Beacon Press; 
USA.


Dyer, R., (2002), “The matter with Whiteness” in (Eds) Rothenberg., P., S., (2002), White privilege: essential 
readings on the other side of racism
, Worth Publishers; New York.


Eddo-Lodge, R., (2017), Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race, Bloomsbury, UK.

Fredickson, G., M., (2002), Racism: A short Story, Princeton University Press, UK.


Hage, G., (2017), Is racism an environmental threat? Polity Press, UK.


Heng, G., (2011), “The Invention of Race in the European middle Ages I: Race studies, Modernity, and the 
Middle Ages”, Literature Compass (8):5.


Heng, G., (2011), “The Invention of Race in the European middle Ages I I: Locations of medieval Race”, 
Literature Compass (8):5.


Lentin, A., (2020), Why Race Still Matters, Polity Press, UK.


McIntosh, P., (1989), “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”, in McIntosh, P., (2019) [1989],
On Privilege, Fraudulence, and Teaching As Learning, Selected Essays 1981–2019, Routledge; New York.


Stoler, A., (2010) Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power, Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule, University 
of California Press; Los Angeles.


The Combahee River Collective, (1977), “The Combahee River Collective Statement”, BlackPast.


Wolfe, P., (2016), Traces of History, elementary structures of race, Verso, London.

Warscapes Beyond Conflict

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