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Title
Introduction. Understanding Experiences and Decisions in Situations of Enduring Hardship in Africa |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/73723 |
Date
2018 |
Author(s)
Bruijn, M.E. de; Both, J.C. |
Abstract
The enduring experience of hardship, in the form of layers of various crises, can become deeply ingrained in a society, and people can come to act and react under these conditions as if they lead a normal life. This process is explored through the analytical concept of duress, which contains three elements: enduring and accumulating layers of hardship over time, the normalization of this hardship, and a form of deeply constrained agency. We argue that decisions made in duress have a significant impact on the social and political structures of society. This concept of duress is used as a lens to understand the lives of individual people and societies in Central and West Africa that have a long history of ecological, political, and social conflicts and crises. - NWO |
Subject(s)
Conflict; Africa; Anthropology; Duress |
Type of publication
Article / Letter to editor; Article / Letter to editor |
Source
4; 1; 186; 198; 13; Conflict and Society. Advances in Research |
Repository
Leiden - University of Leiden
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