Violence on the Margins / Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies (PDF)

Tobias Hagmann, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Martin Doevenspeck, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Sylvia Brown, Assistant Professor, Denison University, USA
Gillian Mathys, Graduate Student, University of Ghent, Belgium
Christine Bichsel, Senior Researcher, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Bert Suykens, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Ghent, Belgium
Wolfgang Zeller, African Borderlands Research Network, University of Edinburgh, UK
Aboubakr Tandia, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal
Jonathan Goodhand, Professor, Department of Development Studies, SOAS

'Violence on the Margins represents, collectively, real progress in conceptualizing the idea of border violence both in its essence and in its great variety in diverse settings. Its comparative sweep marks an admirable advance in clarity and nuance when read in the light of the field's pioneers: Kopytoff, Barth, Leach, and Peter Sahlins.' - James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University, USA

'This book is a delight. It vividly brings to life the complex politics of frontiers and borderlands in contested zones of Africa and Asia, and gives us fresh insights into processes of state-making, state-breaking, and renegotiation across critical fault-lines in the modern international system.' - Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University, UK

'Benedikt Korf and Timothy Raeymaekers have given us with this book a highly valuable addition to the literature, one that gives momentum to the body of work pushing the study of borders and borderlands, and indeed frontiers, nearer the center of work on political spaces, institutional evolution, state formation, 'development,' and violent conflict. The comparative interest of the book - with Asian and African case studies - fizzes with inter-disciplinary creative tensions, enriches the reading of each case, and points to further useful work to come.' - Christopher Cramer, Head of Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK