Urban Africa and Violent Conflict: Understanding Conflict Dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa from an Urban Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367236878 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 220 str.

Karen Buscher

Opis

This comprehensive volume offers a profound analysis of the complex relationship between the dynamics of violent conflict and urbanisation in Central and Eastern Africa. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

Spis treści

1. African cities and violent conflict: the urban dimension of conflict and post conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa 2. Wartime speculation: property markets and institutional change in eastern Congo’s urban centers 3. Urbanizing Kitchanga: spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo 4. Agency, social space and conflict-urbanism in eastern Congo 5. The politics of everyday policing in Goma: the case of the Anti-gang 6. Autochthony and insecure land tenure: the spatiality of ethnicized hybridity in the periphery of post-conflict Bukavu, DRC 7. From rural rebellion to urban uprising? A socio-spatial perspective on Bujumbura’s conflict history 8. Small towns and rural growth centers as strategic spaces of control in Rwanda’s post-conflict trajectory 9. Humanitarian urbanism in a post-conflict aid town: aid agencies and urbanization in Gulu, Northern Uganda 10. Planning amidst precarity: utopian imaginings in South Sudan 11. Hybrid security governance, post-election violence and the legitimacy of community-based armed groups in urban Kenya

O autorze

Karen Büscher is an Assistant Professor at the Conflict Research Group, Ghent University, Belgium. Her work focuses on different aspects of the relationship between violent conflict and urbanisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Northern Uganda.