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Author:   Karen Büscher
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780367236878

ISBN 10:   0367236877
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   24 April 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. African cities and violent conflict: the urban dimension of conflict and post conflict dynamics in Central and Eastern Africa 2. Wartime speculation: property markets and institutional change in eastern Congo’s urban centers 3. Urbanizing Kitchanga: spatial trajectories of the politics of refuge in North Kivu, Eastern Congo 4. Agency, social space and conflict-urbanism in eastern Congo 5. The politics of everyday policing in Goma: the case of the Anti-gang 6. Autochthony and insecure land tenure: the spatiality of ethnicized hybridity in the periphery of post-conflict Bukavu, DRC 7. From rural rebellion to urban uprising? A socio-spatial perspective on Bujumbura’s conflict history 8. Small towns and rural growth centers as strategic spaces of control in Rwanda’s post-conflict trajectory 9. Humanitarian urbanism in a post-conflict aid town: aid agencies and urbanization in Gulu, Northern Uganda 10. Planning amidst precarity: utopian imaginings in South Sudan 11. Hybrid security governance, post-election violence and the legitimacy of community-based armed groups in urban Kenya

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Karen Büscher is an Assistant Professor at the Conflict Research Group, Ghent University, Belgium. Her work focuses on different aspects of the relationship between violent conflict and urbanisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Northern Uganda.

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