Making war in Côte d'Ivoire

1) Introduction: socialists and skinheads : Abidjan, 2003 : Côte d'Ivoire and the politics of identity ; A chronology of the crisis ; Plan of the book. - 2) Pillage and principle: making distinctions in a frontier zone : Thirdness ; Ecology and economy ; Personhood ; Warfare ; Conclusion. - 3) The politics of ressentiment : Strangers and hosts along the upper Guinea coast ; The rights of the autochthonous and the imposition of the state in Côte d'Ivoire's cocoa-producing west ; Planters, but not mediocre planters ; 'On peut instrumentaliser une réalité': the development of an Ivorian politics of resentment ; Violence as discourse, violence as practice. - 4) Decolonisation and dramaturgy : The "problem" of African youth ; Fesci and its alumni ; Free money: the transition from zouglou to coupé décalé ; "This is play" ; "La deuxième guerre d'indépendence" and the rhetoric of revolution ; "Is this play?" : the media and the events of November 2004 ; Does it matter if this is play?. - 5) Following the money: the cocoa-coffee filière : The history of the filière ; Intergenerational tensions ; The filière restructured and ready to do business ; From "L'or brun to "l'or noir: the reintroduction of petroleum production as part of the Ivorian political economy. - 6) Neither war nor peace: the sociology of a state of emergency ; What causes civil conflict in west Africa? ; Case study: the third assistant to the mayor of Guiglo ; Checkpoint ethnography: economic gain and the threat of violence ; Alignment ; Manchester in Guiglo? Bibliogr.: p. 217-228.-Met gloss., index, noten. XXV, 238 p. : illustrations, table ; 22 cm