Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity - 9781349950126

This book examines the radical changes in social and political landscape of the Upper Guinea Coast region over the past 30 years as a result of civil wars, post-war interventions by international, humanitarian agencies and peacekeeping missions, as well as a regional public health crisis (Ebola epidemic). The emphasis on æcrisesÆ in this book draws attention to the intense socio-transformations in the region over the last three decades. Contemporary crises and changes in the region provoke a challenge to accepted ways of understanding and imagining socio-political life in the region û whether at the level of subnational and national communities, or international and regional structures of interest, such as refugees, weapon trafficking, cross-border military incursions, regional security, and transnational epidemics. This book explores and transcends the central explanatory tropes that have oriented research on the region and re-evaluates them in the light of the contemporary structural dynamics of crises, changes and continuities.

• | Author: Christian K. H°jbjerg, Jacqueline Kn÷rr, William P. Murphy
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Nov 17, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 357 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1349950122
• | ISBN-13: 9781349950126