Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context - Hardcover

Agbiboa, Daniel E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472132903 ISBN 13: 9780472132904

Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

In <i>Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency</i>, Daniel Agbiboa takes African insurgencies back to their routes by providing a transdisciplinary perspective on the centrality of mobility to the strategies of insurgents, state security forces, and civilian populations caught in conflict. Drawing on one of the world&#8217;s deadliest insurgencies, the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, this well-crafted and richly nuanced intervention offers fresh insights into how violent extremist organizations exploit forms of local immobility and border porosity to mobilize new recruits, how the state&#8217;s &#8220;war on terror&#8221; mobilizes against so-called subversive mobilities, and how civilian populations in transit are treated as could-be terrorists and subjected to extortion and state-sanctioned violence en route. The multiple and intersecting flows analyzed here upend Eurocentric representations of movement in Africa as one-sided, anarchic, and dangerous. Instead, this book underscores the contradictions of mobility in conflict zones as simultaneously a resource and a burden. Intellectually rigorous yet clear, engaging, and accessible, <i>Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency</i> is a seminal contribution that lays bare the neglected linkages between conflict and mobility.<br><br>

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<b>Daniel E. Agbiboa</b> is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.<br><br>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of Michigan Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0472132903
• ISBN 13: 9780472132904
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
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