Liberia : The Violence of Democracy.
Title:
Liberia : The Violence of Democracy.
Author:
Moran, Mary H.
ISBN:
9780812202847
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (201 pages)
Series:
The Ethnography of Political Violence
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Liberia, Violence, and Democracy -- 1: The Case for Indigenous Democracy -- 2: Contested Histories -- 3: Civilization and the Liberian Nation -- 4: The Promise and Terror of Elections -- 5: The Lock on the Outhouse Door: Discourses of Development -- 6: The Crisis of Youth and the Promise of the Future -- 7: Conclusion: A Wedding and a Funeral -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Moran argues that democracy is not a foreign import into Africa, but that essential aspects of what we in the West consider democratic values are part of the indigenous traditions of legitimacy and political process.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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