Violence on the Margins

This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.

'Violence on the Margins represents, collectively, real progress in conceptualizing the idea of border violence both in its essence and in its great variety in diverse settings. Its comparative sweep marks an admirable advance in clarity and nuance when read in the light of the field's pioneers: Kopytoff, Barth, Leach, and Peter Sahlins.' - James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University, USA

'This book is a delight. It vividly brings to life the complex politics of frontiers and borderlands in contested zones of Africa and Asia, and gives us fresh insights into processes of state-making, state-breaking, and renegotiation across critical fault-lines in the modern international system.' - Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University, UK

'Benedikt Korf and Timothy Raeymaekers have given us with this book a highly valuable addition to the literature, one that gives momentum to the body of work pushing the study of borders and borderlands, and indeed frontiers, nearer the center of work on political spaces, institutional evolution, state formation, 'development,' and violent conflict. The comparative interest of the book - with Asian and African case studies - fizzes with inter-disciplinary creative tensions, enriches the reading of each case, and points to further useful work to come.' - Christopher Cramer, Head of Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK

Autorentext
Tobias Hagmann, University of California at Berkeley, USA Martin Doevenspeck, University of Bayreuth, Germany Sylvia Brown, Assistant Professor, Denison University, USA Gillian Mathys, Graduate Student, University of Ghent, Belgium Christine Bichsel, Senior Researcher, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Bert Suykens, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Ghent, Belgium Wolfgang Zeller, African Borderlands Research Network, University of Edinburgh, UK Aboubakr Tandia, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal Jonathan Goodhand, Professor, Department of Development Studies, SOAS

Inhalt
PART I: INTRODUCING A BORDERLAND PERSPECTIVE 1. Border, Frontier, and the Geography of Rule at the Margins of the State; Benedikt Korf and Timothy Raeymaekers 2. Geographies of Violence and Sovereignty: The African Frontier Revisited; Tobias Hagmann, Martin Doevenspeck, and Benedikt Korf 3. Centering Borders and Borderlands: The Evidence from Africa; Markus Virgil Hoehne and Dereje Feyissa PART II: THE BORDER'S ROUGH TERRAIN: VIOLENCE, SECURITY, AND THE BORDER 4. Treading a Fine Line: State Making and Conflict within Eastern Burma; Sylvia Brown 5. Navigating the Urban 'In-Between Space': Local Livelihood and Identity Strategies in Exploiting the Goma/Gisenyi Border; Karen Buscher and Gillian Mathys PART III: THE BORDER AS FRONTIER: STATES, SOVEREIGNTY, AND IDENTITY 6. Dangerous Divisions: Peace Building in the Borderlands of Post-Soviet Central Asia; Christine Bichsel 7. State Making and the Suspension of Law in India's Northeast: The Place of Exception in the Assam-Nagaland Border Dispute; Bert Suykens PART IV: "BRINGING THE STATE BACK IN": BORDERS, WAR ECONOMIES, AND PEACE ECONOMIES 8. Get It While You Can: Building Business and Bureaucracy between Wars in the Uganda-Sudan Borderland; Wolfgang Zeller 9. When Civil Wars Hibernate in Borderlands: The Challenges of the Casamance 'Forgotten Civil War' to Cross-Border Peace and Security; Aboubakr Tandia Epilogue: The View from the Border; Jonathan Goodhand