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Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency - The Routes of Terror in an African Context (Paperback)
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Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency - The Routes of Terror in an African Context (Paperback)
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Despite the centrality of mobility to the operations of both state
and non-state armed groups as well as the survival strategies of
civilians in conflict zones, issues of mobility and access have
remained tangential to how we analyze contemporary armed
insurgencies. The extant literature focuses rather exclusively on
the "roots" of armed insurgencies while glossing over its "routes"
and trajectories. Scholars thus miss the complex ways in which
state and non-state actors, as well as local populations, interact
with and navigate around infrastructures of mobility. Daniel E.
Agbiboa foregrounds mobility in this book as a key arena where
state and non-state actors jostle for ascendancy, reflecting the
contested nature of power. Mobility, Mobilization, and
Counter/Insurgency has three interconnected objectives: (1) to
analyze the evolution and mutation of Boko Haram in light of how
the sect interacts with mobility and mobile infrastructures; (2) to
gauge the extent to which the governance of mobility has been a
central factor in the war against Boko Haram since 2009; and (3) to
assess the impact of Boko Haram's mobile warfare and the state's
regulation of mobility on people whose livelihoods rest squarely on
movement and access. By studying the armed insurgencies through the
lens of mobility and access, new questions are generated,
established themes are rethought, and fresh empirical sites are
explored. Finally, the book's focus on Africa provides a long
overdue corrective to extant literature on mobilities, which too
rarely expand beyond cultures and canonical discussions of mobility
in Western societies.
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