Research Catalog

Title

The Upper Guinea coast in global perspective / edited by Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl.

Publication

New York : Berghahn, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960-
• Kohl, Christoph

Description

viii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Integration and conflict studies ; volume 12

Uniform Title

Integration and conflict studies ; v. 12.

Subject

• Globalization > Political aspects > Guinea (Region)
• Globalization > Political aspects
• Politics and government
• Social conditions
• Guinea (Region) > Politics and government
• Guinea (Region) > Social conditions
• Guinea(Region)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: the Upper Guinea coast in global perspective / Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl -- Towards a definition of transnational as a family construct : an historical and micro perspective / Bruce L. Mouser -- Lusocreole culture and identity compared : the cases of Guinea-Bissau and Sri Lanka / Christoph Kohl -- Freetown's Yoruba-modelled secret societies as transnational and trans-ethnic mechanisms for social integration / Nathaniel King -- Contested transnational spaces : debating emigrants' citizenship and role in Guinean politics / Anita Schroven -- Identity beyond ID -- diaspora within the nation / Markus Rudolf -- The African "other" in the Cape Verde Islands : interaction, integration and the forging of an immigration policy / Pedro F. José Marcelino -- Celebrating asymmetries -- Creole stratification and the regrounding of home in Cape Verdean migrant return visits / Heike Drotbohm -- Travelling terms : analysis of semantic fluctuations in the Atlantic world / Wilson Trajano Filho -- Rice and revolution : agrarian life and global food policy on the Upper Guinea coast / Joanna Davidson -- Transnational and local models of non-refoulement : youth and women in the moral economy of patronage in post-war Liberia and Sierra Leone / William P. Murphy -- Expanding the space for freedom of expression in post-war Sierra Leone / Sylvanus Spencer -- Sierra Leone, child soldiers, and global flows of child protection expertise / Susan Shepler -- The "Mandingo question" : transnational ethnic identity and violent conflict in an Upper Guinea border area / Christian K. Højbjerg -- Solo Darboe, former diamond dealer : transnational connections and home politics in the twentieth-century Gambia / Alice Bellagamba -- Market networks and warfare : a comparison of the seventeenth century blade weapons trade and the nineteenth century firearms trade in the Casamance / Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta.

Call Number

Sc E 21-1568

ISBN

• 9781785330698
• 1785330691

LCCN

2015026968

OCLC

913337779

Title

The Upper Guinea coast in global perspective / edited by Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl.

Publisher

New York : Berghahn, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Integration and conflict studies ; volume 12

Integration and conflict studies ; v. 12.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: MARTIN LUTHER UNIV.. HALLE-WITTENBERG. COLLECTION OF NEW ESSAYS.

Added Author

Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960- editor.

Kohl, Christoph, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-1568