Collective mobilisations in Africa = mobilisations collectives en Afrique : enough is enough! = ça suffit! /

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Imprint:Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2015]
©2015
Description:xiv, 364 pages : illustrations (some colored), maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
French
Series:Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; volume 15
African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 15.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10372616
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Varying Form of Title:Collective mobilisations in Africa
Other authors / contributors:Tall, Kadya, editor of compilation.
Pommerolle, Marie-Emmanuelle, editor of compilation.
Cahen, Michel, editor of compilation.
ISBN:9789004293175 (pbk.)
9004293175 (pbk.)
9789004300002
9004300007
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contributions in English and French.
Summary:This book uses empirical research to bring together a broad range of protest contexts in twelve chapters. From the formation of Maroon societies in the early colonial period, to female mobilisation in authoritarian contexts, via urban youth culture, women or mineworkers in trade unionism, as well as pro- and anti- gay rights activists, the protagonists here all insist upon their rights to protest in a variety of ways. Sometimes popular protest is expressed through religion, often (and sometimes violently) by young people, exasperated by their long wait for social achievement. Electoral wars and the formation of militias reveal a geography of violence in urban areas, which, in some sectarian excesses, can be displaced to rural areas, as described in the study on Boko Haram.
Cet ouvrage regroupe un éventail comprenant douze contextes de contestation. De la formation de communautés marronnes au début de la colonisation, aux mobilisations féminines en contexte autoritaire, en passant par les cultures urbaines, les cultures syndicales des femmes et des travailleurs dans les mines, les contestations pro ou contre la liberté des homosexuels, tous font prévaloir leur pouvoir de contestation de manière plurielle. La voie religieuse est un domaine où s'exerce parfois de manière violente, les protestations de populations souvent jeunes, en attente de mobilité sociale. Les guerres électorales et la constitution de milices dessinent une géographie de la violence en milieu urbain, violence qui trouve à se déplacer en milieu rural dans certaines dérives sectaires comme en témoigne l'étude sur Boko Haram.

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