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McGovern, Mike.

Making War in Côte D'Ivoire / Mike McGovern. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2011. - xxv, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Contents
Introduction: socialists and skinheads : Abidjan, 2003;
Côte d'Ivoire;
A chronology of the crisis;
Chapters;
Pillage and principle: making distinctions in a frontier zone;
Thirdness;
Ecology and economy;
Personhood;
Warfare;
Conclusion;
The politics of ressentiment;
Introduction;
Strangers and hosts along the upper Guinea coast;
The rights of the autochthonous and the imposition of the state in Côte d'Ivoire's cocoa-producing west;
Planters, but not mediocre planters;
'On peut instrumentaliser une réalité': the development of an Ivorian politics of resentment;
Violence as discourse, violence as practice;
Decolonisation and dramaturgy;
The "problem" of African youth;
Fesci and its alumni;
Free money: the transition from zouglou to coupé décalé;
"This is play";
"La deuxième guerre d'indépendence" and the rhetoric of revolution;
"Is this play?" : the media and the events of November 2004;
Does it matter if this is play?;
Following the money: the cocoa-coffee filière;
The history of the filière;
Intergenerational tensions;
The filière restructured and ready to do business;
From "L" or brun to "l"or noir: the reintroduction of petroleum production as part of the Ivorian political economy;
Neither war nor peace: the sociology of a state of emergency;
What causes civil conflict in west Africa?;
Case study: the third assistant to the mayor of Guiglo;
Checkpoint ethnography: economic gain and the threat of violence;
Alignment;
Manchester in Guiglo?.

ISBN: 9780226514598 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226514595 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226514604 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226514609 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009036013

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Côte d'Ivoire--History--Civil War, 2002-2007.

LC Class. No.: DT545.84 / .M346 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 966.680592 MCG