State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

312 Pages·2016·1.8 MB·English

by  Louisa Lombard

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Louisa Lombard is an assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University.
Previously she held a Ciriacy-Wantrup postdoctoral fellowship in natural
resource economics at the University of California at Berkeley. She has
published widely on politics and conflict in Central Africa. In addition to her
academic research, she has worked in the Central African Republic as a field
consultant to several international organizations, including Human Rights
Watch, Small Arms Survey, Refugees International, and the World Bank. Her
previous books include Making Sense of the Central African Republic, co-edited
with Tatiana Carayannis (Zed Books, 2015).
STATE OF
REBELLION
VIOLENCE AND
INTERVENTION IN THE
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
LOUISA LOMBARD
In association with
International African Institute
Royal African Society
World Peace Foundation
State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic
was first published in 2016 by Zed Books Ltd, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way,
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and acronyms
Map of the Central African Republic
Introduction
1. Conflict and the state in the peace-kept world
2. The nativeness of ‘foreign’ violence
3. Mobility as power
4. Long and short histories of rebellion
5. DDR and the frustration of desires for entitlement
6. War as the violence of the pack
7. World champion of peacekeeping
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index