Imagining the Congo
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Imagining the Congo

The International Relations of Identity

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Imagining the Congo

The International Relations of Identity

About this book

Understanding the current civil war in the Congo requires an examination of how the Congo's identity has been imagined over time. Imagining the Congo historicizes and contextualizes the constructions of the Congo's identity in order to analyze the political implications of that identity, looking in detail at four historical periods in which the identity of the Congo was contested, with numerous forces attempting to produce and attach meanings to its territory and people. Dunn looks specifically at how what he calls 'imaginings' of the Congo have allowed the current state of affairs there to develop, but he also looks at the broader conceptual question of how the concept of identity has developed and become important in recent international relations scholarship.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2003
Print ISBN
9781403961600, 9781403961594
eBook ISBN
9781403979261
Topic
History
Subtopic
African History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. List of Acronyms
  5. One: Introduction: Identity and International Relations in the "Heart of Darkness"
  6. Two: Inventing the Congo: Henry Morton Stanley, Leopold II, and the "Red Rubber" Scandal
  7. Three: Congo as Chaos, Lumumba as Diable: Independence and the 1960 Crisis
  8. Four: From Congo to Zaïre: Mobutu's Production of an "Authentic" National Identity
  9. Five: Cancer, Kabila, and the Congo: Central Africa at the End of the Twentieth Century
  10. Chapter Six Taking Inventory
  11. Notes
  12. Works Cited
  13. Index