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This book analyses securitization processes outside of the West, with a focus on Africa. The aim of the volume is to develop an original analytical framework to explain the securitization-neo-patrimonialism dynamics in West Africa, drawing upon insights from securitization theory, sociology and psychology. Among critical voices, securitization has become the gold standard for analysing emerging challenges, such as migration, terrorism, and human security. Yet, despite its broadening agenda, the framework has also been accused of bias, with a Western political context and democratic governance structure at its heart. This book aims to re-conceptualise the framework in a way that suits non-Western contexts better, notably by re-conceptualising the securitization-neopatrimonialism nexus in Africa, which gives us significant new insights into non-Western political contexts. It analyses the securitization processes among the political elites under neo-patrimonial statehood, and further stretches the conceptualisation of securitization into African statehood, which is characterised by a blurred line between the leader and the state. The volume explores the processes of securitizing threats in Liberia, Sierra Leone and wider West Africa, as well as the neo-patrimonial regimes of these states. In doing so, it explores the influence these states’ neo-patrimonial regimes have on the processes of threat securitization. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, African politics and International Relations.

Human security. --- Postcolonialism. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Non-traditional security (Human security) --- NTS (Human security) --- Security, Human --- Human rights --- African security;Copenhagen School;external actors;Liberia;neo-patrimonialism;Sierra Leone --- Africa, West --- Politics and government --- Africa, Western --- West Africa --- Western Africa

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Des comptoirs officieux où se négocient les précieux cailloux, des activités de façade destinées à masquer des transactions illégales, des villes surgies de nulle part, des communautés humaines qui se recomposent en fonction de cette économie très spéciale : c'est une étrange histoire que celle des diamantaires de la vallée du Sénégal qui nous est donnée à lire ici. Sylvie Bredeloup analyse la façon dont le trafic des diamants a fait naître dans cette région du monde de nouveaux espaces d'échanges et de circulation. Ces formes de mobilité inédites permettent de réinterroger l'articulation entre dynamiques urbaines et entreprenariat économique, entre solidarités migratoires et relations productives. Une recherche qui renouvelle la question migratoire en Afrique subsaharienne.

Economics --- Diamond industry and trade --- Diamonds --- Economie politique --- Diamants --- Government policy --- Industrie --- Politique gouvernementale --- Senegal --- Sénégal --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- Emigration et immigration --- Aspect économique --- Migrant labor --- Labor, Migrant --- Migrant workers --- Migrants (Migrant labor) --- Migratory workers --- Transient labor --- Employees --- Casual labor --- Jewelry trade --- Nonmetallic minerals industry --- Africa, West --- Senegal River Valley --- Senegal Valley --- Africa, Western --- West Africa --- Western Africa --- Emigration and immigration. --- Socio-economics --- Trade of diamonds --- French West Africa --- Migrations --- 21th century --- Sénégal --- Aspect économique --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects.

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Ethnicity and the Colonial State analyses, through a comparison of three West African communities (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), the ways in which ethnic labels and arguments are used (or omitted) in dealings with colonial administrations. It follows these strategies and choices over more than a century, between the conquest periods and independence. Where state structures were weak as a factor of group cohesion, ethnic arguments were especially likely to come into play. The analysis discusses internal fissures and conflicting interests within the communities as other incentives for ethnic coalition-building. The observations made in this book are put into the context of a global historical perspective, for which “ethnicity” has so far remained a badly defined concept.

Ethnicity --- Group identity --- Wolof (African people) --- Ewe (African people) --- Temne (African people) --- History. --- Ethnic identity. --- Africa, West --- Ethnic relations. --- Atemne (African people) --- Temen (African people) --- Themne (African people) --- Timani (African people) --- Timannee (African people) --- Timene (African people) --- Timmannee (African people) --- Timne (African people) --- Bayikpe (African people) --- Bubutubi (African people) --- Ehwe (African people) --- Eibe (African people) --- Eve (African people) --- Evhe (African people) --- Krepe (African people) --- Krepi (African people) --- Jolof (African people) --- Oulaf (African people) --- Volof (African people) --- Walof (African people) --- Wolofs --- Yallof (African people) --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Ethnic identity --- Africa, Western --- West Africa --- Western Africa --- Ethnology --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Social & cultural history