The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa

ISBN-13: 9781107175013 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str.

John F. McCauley

Opis

This book explains why conflicts in Africa are sometimes ethnic and sometimes religious, even when the opponents remained unchanged.

Recenzje

'Overall, this book presents the fruit of an innovative research design with which McCauley develops what I firmly believe is a sound theoretical model for examining and understanding a complex mechanism of social mobilization; namely, how political elites manipulate the general population. Furthermore, by illuminating how social identity types produce unique sets of individual-level preferences and attitudes, the book's novel perspective proves useful for distinguishing and analysing different forms of identity group competition (religious politics, ethnic politics and gender politics) with greater clarity than previously possible.' Ibrahim Can Sezgin, African Affairs

Spis treści

Part I: 1. Introduction; 2. A theory of mobilization differences in identity types; 3. Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana; 4. Observable implications; Part II: 5. Theory of political choice; 6. Ethnic and religious identity in Côte d'Ivoire's conflict; 7. Ethnicity and religion in Sudan's civil wars; 8. Ethnicity and religion in Nigeria's Biafran war; 9. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.