Conflit régional et rhétorique de la contre-insurrection

McGovern, Mike; Marchal, Roland

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“…In early 2007, rumours spread that Liberian ex-rebels had reached the capital along with mercenaries from neighbouring Guinea-Bissau. Th ese well-known spectres of the invading stranger built upon actual past threats and sought to connect them to the present (Kaba 1978;Kobélé Kéita 2002;McGovern 2002;Arieff and McGovern 2013). Beyond a call for national unity, identifying a foreign scapegoat implied that the current threat was not made by the ideal Guinean citizens, who were implicitly peaceful, lawabiding people faithfully supporting their government in trying times.…”

Section: Guinean Politics Debated Between Local and Transnational Commentioning

confidence: 99%

The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

Knörr¹,

Kohl²

2016

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Th e objective of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is to advance anthropological fi eldwork and enhance theory building. 'Integration' and 'confl ict', the central themes of this series, are major concerns of the contemporary social sciences and of signifi cant interest to the general public. Th ey have also been among the main research areas of the institute since its foundation. Bringing together international experts, Integration and Confl ict Studies includes both monographs and edited volumes, and off ers a forum for studies that contribute to a better understanding of processes of identifi cation and inter-group relations. All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher. Volume 1 How Enemies are Made: Towards a Th eory of Ethnic and Religious Confl icts Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataNames: Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960-editor. | Kohl, Christoph, editor. In MemoriamTh is book is dedicated to the memory of Christian Kordt Højbjerg (1961Højbjerg ( -2014.Christian was an associate professor at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) and a long-time member of the research group 'Integration and Confl ict along the Upper Guinea Coast' at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany.After studying at the University of Aarhus, Christian did graduate work at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales before obtaining his Ph.D. and his Habilitation in anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. His areas of specialization included Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire and Mauritius. He published extensively on a range of subjects, including historical memory, ritual and social organization, confl ict and emergent political orders, identity and diff erence, and the role of refl exivity in shaping both social change and theoretical change.Th roughout his work, Christian demonstrated mastery of many skills: he was a dedicated ethnographer, a critical and in-depth analyst, an inspirational teacher, a compassionate man and a fi ne scholar with an open and active mind. As a member of our research group, Christian made a great and valuable contribution to our work. We have lost a wonderful friend and colleague whom we will miss and keep in our hearts and minds as an inspiration for our lives and research.On behalf of all contributors to this book and the members, associates and friends of the Research Group 'Integration and Confl ict along the Upper Guinea Coast' at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, List of Maps and Figures Maps Rio Pongo 23 Border of Liberia and Guinea 260Figures 6.1 (1) Internal migration routes and internal migration incentives; (2) irregular migration ship/zodiac routes from West Africa. 122 6.2Tentative inclusion...

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Section: Guinean Politics Debated Between Local and Transnational Commentioning

confidence: 99%

The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

Knörr¹,

Kohl²

2016

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“…In 1990, as the Cold War came to an end, the military regime of General Lansana Conté, in power since 1984, confronted two major challenges. First, civil wars broke out in two neighboring countries, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and then formed a larger system of interrelated regional wars surrounding Guinea (Marchal 2002; McGovern 2002). Guinea began to host thousands of refugees, and some of its border areas were themselves affected by military clashes among the various governmental and rebel forces.…”

Section: Guinea: Framing Stability In the Context Of Transnational Warsmentioning

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“…In sum, electoral campaigns, military clashes in the country's border areas, as well as the context of the civil wars in neighboring countries, provided the discursive material to update and adapt to an older pattern set in place by the previous regime (1958–1984), during which opponents were also publicly categorized as the proxies of “foreign hands” (McGovern 2002). The publicized stability of the regime is set against the subversive plots of transnational networks of warlord and their domestic accomplices, joined in an effort to export regional instability in Guinea, the only stable country of the region.…”

Section: Guinea: Framing Stability In the Context Of Transnational Warsmentioning

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The International Relations of Small Neoauthoritarian States: Islamism, Warlordism, and the Framing of Stability

Jourde¹

2007

Int Studies Q

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The literature on democratization and authoritarian survival has rightfully studied the role external forces play in such processes. These external actors and structural constraints are said to be especially substantial when dealing with small and poor authoritarian states. Although this literature acknowledges that small states are not entirely powerless when confronting hegemonic external forces, little effort has been made to refine and specify the role they play and the actions they undertake to engage international democratization pressures. This paper addresses this lacuna by using the framing approach and the concept of “extraversion” to analyze the process by which weak African authoritarian states draw on and change the representations that Western powers hold about them. These representations provide a specific lens through which Western governments and experts look at political dynamics in developing countries, and eventually shape policies toward these countries. This paper analyzes how two small authoritarian African regimes, Guinea and Mauritania, have enacted a series of performances such as the arrests of alleged “Islamists,”“warlords,” and other transnational “subversive threats,” thereby framing their domestic and foreign policies in ways that can resonate with hegemonic international discourses, seeking to obtain either more support from Western states or to lower their democratization pressure (or both).

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“…Given Liberia's persisting political instability and worsening relations between Presidents Lansana Conté and Charles Taylor in the first years of the new century, H's dream of integration may seem hopelessly naïve (McGovern 2002). In a truly remarkable scenario given the politico-military problems plaguing the sub-region, student H forecast an economic union that would productively integrate projects and peoples in Guinea's forest region and Liberia : 'One of globalisation's positive results will be our future forming of a single community linking N'Zérékoré and Liberia's population, because we will be able to eat (manger) a single currency. '…”

Section: Set Imentioning

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“…It is certainly at odds with recent portrayals of Guinean society as plunging back into the staunch totalitarianism which typified much of Sékou Touré's 'revolutionary' rule (Fall 2006 ;McGovern 2002). Pondering globalisation in the spring of 2000, few if any of these youths yielded to fantasies of a utopian or catastrophic dispensation for their town or their country.…”

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Youth, globalisation, and millennial reflection in a Guinean forest town

Straker¹

2007

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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The last two decades have witnessed a surge in studies of youth culture and social practice. In Africa, as elsewhere, this body of youth-centred research and writing has devoted considerable attention to specific groups within a given country's young population, while largely neglecting others seen to lack either culturally innovative or politically subversive traits. Youths in large cities and young combatants involved in insurgency or counter-insurgency have shared centre stage in studies of youthful Africa. This article argues for broadening the research agenda of African youth studies, calling for increased attention to the interpretive work performed by provincial youths as they try to understand and hopefully alter the future prospects of their communities in the new century. It shows how ideas about the meanings of globalisation and ‘the millennium’, intertwined with experiences of a recent refugee ‘crisis’, are shaping Guinean youths' socio-political reflections and yearnings. In doing so, it stresses just how complicated and cosmopolitan ‘provincial’ life, particularly for young people, has become in Guinea's forest region, as well as the variety and sophistication of the historical ‘materials’ and interpretive schemes through which these youths depict and judge possible local futures.

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Conflit régional et rhétorique de la contre-insurrection

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The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

The International Relations of Small Neoauthoritarian States: Islamism, Warlordism, and the Framing of Stability

Youth, globalisation, and millennial reflection in a Guinean forest town

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