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?.