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Mats Utas
Other affiliations: University of the Witwatersrand, Nordic Africa Institute
Bio: Mats Utas is an academic researcher from Uppsala University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social anthropology & Cultural anthropology. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 47 publications receiving 1537 citations. Previous affiliations of Mats Utas include University of the Witwatersrand & Nordic Africa Institute.
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TL;DR: In this article, a young woman's social navigation of the Liberian war zone is described, with a focus on victimcy, girlfriending, soldiering, and war zones.
Abstract: Victimcy, Girlfriending, Soldiering : Tactic Agency in a Young Woman's Social Navigation of the Liberian War Zone
365 citations
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the lives and experiences of young people in Africa, focusing on agents who, willingly or unwillingly, see themselves as belonging to the socio-generational category of youth.
Abstract: This book focuses on the lives and experiences of young people in Africa. On agents who, willingly or unwillingly, see themselves as belonging to the socio-generational category of youth and the wa ...
235 citations
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: This article presented an ethnography of youth in Liberia and of how their lives became affected by a civil war which raged in the country between 1990 and 1997, focusing on the experiences of the youth.
Abstract: This dissertation presents an ethnography of youth in Liberia and of how their lives became affected by a civil war which raged in the country between 1990 and 1997. The focus is on the experiences ...
160 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the 2007 general elections in Sierra Leone marked a decisive moment in the country's post-war recovery, and political parties strategically remobilized ex-combatants into the Liberian military.
Abstract: The 2007 general elections in Sierra Leone marked a decisive moment in the country's post-war recovery. In this article we show how political parties strategically remobilized ex-combatants into 's ...
159 citations
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01 Nov 2008TL;DR: In the numerous armed conflicts that are tearing the African continent apart, young women are participants and carry guns alongside their male comrades-in-arms as discussed by the authors, challenging the stereotype of women.
Abstract: In the numerous armed conflicts that are tearing the African continent apart, young women are participants and carry guns alongside their male comrades-in-arms. Challenging the stereotype of women ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, a research has been done on the essay "Can the Subaltern Speak" by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, which has been explained into much simpler language about what the author conveys for better understanding and further references.
Abstract: In the present paper a research has been done on the essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak’ by’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’. It has been explained into much simpler language about what the author conveys for better understanding and further references. Also the criticism has been done by various critiques from various sources which is helpful from examination point of view. The paper has been divided into various contexts with an introduction and the conclusions. Also the references has been written that depicts the sources of criticism.
2,638 citations
01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics
1,125 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate how African rulers hold on to power while severed from foreign aid and subjected to collapsing economies and disappearing bureaucracies, focusing on the examples of Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zaire.
Abstract: Focusing on the examples of Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zaire, this text demonstrates how African rulers hold on to power while severed from foreign aid and subjected to collapsing economies and disappearing bureaucracies.
1,045 citations
TL;DR: The reactions to the excellent chapter on armed conflict by Collier & Hoeffler illustrate that Nobel awards are no protection against bias as mentioned in this paper, and the panellists tend to disregard some of the evidence assembled by the authors.
Abstract: of distinguished and rather senior economists – makes at the end of the book. Their priorities tend to be quick-fixes of problems that might, at least partly, be caused by some other challenge. More importantly, the panellists tend to disregard some of the evidence assembled by the authors. The reactions to the excellent chapter on armed conflict by Collier & Hoeffler illustrate that Nobel awards are no protection against bias. One member of the panel dismisses the economic sources of war that the Oxford economists analyse and points out that free trade is the main pacifying force, while another famous panellist mentions ethnic or religious hatred as a source of conflict. Gerald Schneider
859 citations