Search Results - "War"

Blood on the stone : greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade / by Smillie, Ian

“…Greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade…”

Empire's Violent End : Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Beyond the League Table of Barbarity : Comparing Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization / Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis -- Not an Afterthought : Accountability for Colonial Violence in the Dutch and British Metropoles / Huw Bennett and Peter Romijn -- Windows onto the Micro-Dynamics of Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence : Evidence from Late Colonial Southeast Asia and Africa Compared / Roel Frakking and Martin Thomas -- Cracking Down on Revolutionary Zeal and Violence : Local Dynamics and Early Colonial Responses to the Independence Struggle in Indochina and the Indonesian Archipelago, 1945-1947 / Pierre Asselin and Henk Schulte Nordholt -- The Places, Traces, and Politics of Rape in the Indonesian and the Algerian Wars of Independence / Stef Scagliola and Natalya Vince, in collaboration with Khedidja Adel and Galuh Amba -- "The normal order of things" : Contextualizing "Technical Violence" in the Netherlands-Indonesia War / Azarja Harmanny and Brian McAllister Linn -- "Bloodshed on a rather large scale" : Tactical Conduct and Non-combatant Casualties in Dutch, French, and British Colonial Counterinsurgency / Christiaan Harinck -- Comparing the Afterlives, Political Uses, and Memories of Extreme Violence during the Wars of Decolonization in France, the Netherlands, and Britain / Raphaëlle Branche.…”
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Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins / by García, David F.

Table of Contents: “…Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war -- Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record -- Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism -- Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time -- Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents -- Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.…”
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Ripples of Hope : How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence / by Press, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Resisting repression without violence -- Sierra Leone -- Students shake the pillars of power -- Radical activism : from seeking regime reform to regime change -- Women help restore democracy -- Mass noncooperation helps defeat a violent junta -- Liberia -- Nonviolent resistance in abeyance -- Peaceful resistance during a civil war -- Kenya -- Individual resistance against repression -- Establishing a culture of resistance -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”
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The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power / by Booysen, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : ANC pathways to claiming, consolidating and regenerating political power -- Aluta continua, from Polokwane to Mangaung -- The ANC and its pillars of people's power -- Power through the ballot and the brick -- Participation and power through co-operation, complicity, co-optation -- Power through elections: serial declines, but the centre holds -- Floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy -- Subjugation and demise of the (new) National Party -- Countered and cowered Congress of the People (Cope) -- State institutions as site of struggle in ANC wars -- Between centralisation and centralism : the Presidency of South Africa -- Policy, pursuit of the 'turn to the left' and the paradox of continuity -- ANC at a critical conjuncture : movement, people, elections, governance.…”
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