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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “alessio iocchi”
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  • Living through Crisis by Lake Chad

    Violence, Labor and Resources

    by Alessio Iocchi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    This book investigates the ways in which people in the Lake Chad region that divides Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon deal with the crises of violence, jihadism, drought, and climate change that continue to afflict the area.In 2014 Boko Haram expanded into the Lake Chad region, prompting a counter-insurgency response, and exacerbating pre-existing social and ecological challenges. Drawing on ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Boko Haram

    The Evolution of a Jihadist Group Since 2015

    by David Cook, Zacharias Pieri, Oliver O. Coates, Mark Amaliya Anyorikeya, Susan J. Dibal, Olivia Shoemaker, Justin Graham, Marc-Antoine De Perouse, Medinat Malefakis, Usman Tar, Sasilkar Banu, Alessio Iocchi, James Barnett, Murtala Ahmed Rufa'i, Hans De Marie Heungoup, Maman Inoua Elhadji Mahamadou Amadou ...
    Since the early 2000s, the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram has been the subject of thousands of works by journalists, intelligence and NGO officers, and academic writers. Yet due to recycled themes, stale narratives, and fragmented sources, knowledge about the movement's origins, motivations, and continued transformation remains incomplete.Rethinking Boko Haram provides much-needed updates to ... Read more

    $63.19 CAD

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    Edited by Maria Grosz-Ngaté, John H. Hanson, Patrick O'Meara ...
    "Much has changed in Africa and in African studies . . . but one constant has been the enduring excellence of the anthology Africa." — International Journal of African Historical StudiesSince the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the ... Read more

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  • Why Civil Resistance Works

    The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

    by Erica Chenoweth, Maria Stephan ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • Istanbul

    Between the Global and the Local

    by Ayfer Bartu, Tanil Bora, Sema Erder, Ayse Oncu, Martin Stokes, Jenny White, Yael Navaro-Yasin ...
    Series series World Social Change
    This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Istanbul usually is identified as a battleground between East and West, Islam and secularism. Yet the authors argue that beyond these clichés lies a complex reality as Istanbulites simultaneously try to accommodate, understand, challenge, and shape the sweeping transformations ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Political Islam

    Edited by Shadi Hamid, William McCants ...
    For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power. Now, they have answers: confusing ones. In the Levant, ISIS established a government by brute force, implementing an extreme interpretation of Islamic law. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Tunisia's Ennahda Party governed in coalition with two secular parties, ratified a liberal constitution, and ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Women and the War on Boko Haram

    Wives, Weapons, Witnesses

    by Hilary Matfess ...
    Series series African Arguments
    For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked the world, giving rise to the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Yet Boko Haram's campaign of violence against women and girls goes far beyond the Chibok abductions. From its inception, the group has systematically exploited women to advance its aims. Perhaps ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa

    Edited by Joel Beinin, Bassam Haddad, Sherene Seikaly ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how critical political economy can illuminate both historical and contemporary dynamics of the region and contribute to wider political economy ... Read more

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  • Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel

    Local Politics and Rebel Groups

    by Alexander Thurston ...
    Jihadist movements have claimed that they are merely vehicles for the application of God's word, distancing themselves from politics, which they call dirty and manmade. Yet on closer examination, jihadist movements are immersed in politics, negotiating political relationships not just with the forces surrounding them, but also within their own ranks. Drawing on case studies from North Africa and ... Read more

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  • Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa

    Second Edition

    Edited by Joel Beinin, Frédéric Vairel ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations. This fully revised second edition extends the earlier explorations of Egypt, Morocco, ... Read more

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  • Boko Haram

    The History of an African Jihadist Movement

    by Alexander Thurston ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groupsBoko Haram is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that began in Nigeria but has since spread to Chad, Niger, and Cameroon as well. This is the first book to tell the full story of this West African affiliate of ... Read more

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  • The Arab State and Neo-liberal Globalization, The

    The Restructuring of State Power in the Middle East

    by Laura Guazzone ...
    This collection of essays by leading academics offers an alternative approach to the study of today's Arab states by focusing on their participation in neo-liberal globalization rather than on authoritarianism or Islam. The effects of the restructuring of traditional state power engendered by globalization are analyzed separately, through updated empirical research in the political, economic and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus