Imagining the Congo: The International Relations of Identity

by Kevin Dunn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403961603
• ISBN13: 9781403961600
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"