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Conflict and Violence in the Lake Chad Basin

Insecurity in Central Africa

Chauvin, E., Beek, W., Baroin, C., Langlois, O. & Seignobos, C. (Eds.)

376 pages, 44 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-106-3 $150.00/£115.00 / Hb / Published (August 2025)

eISBN 978-1-83695-107-0 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781836951063


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“Despite being a center of the revolutionary Islamic movement Boko Haram and a key location in trans-Saharan trading networks, relatively little information is available in English on the Lake Chad Basin. This important collection of essays provides much-needed local perspectives about the impact of armed conflict and the influence of the past on the present in this region… This is necessary reading for anyone seeking to better understand the dynamics of social and political change in this region.”

Choice Essential. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.

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Ranging from Boko Haram to the war in the Central African Republic, insecurity forms a major factor among societies in the Lake Chad Basin (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Niger, Nigeria, Chad). Marred by conflict and violence, these territories are difficult to access and not well-known, so they tend to be out of reach for scholarly study and development programs. The long-term and in-depth field studies that this volume presents offer a window on conflict analysis based on insights into local dynamics and the lived world of the people themselves.

Emmanuel Chauvin is a geographer, lecturer at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès and at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Solidarity, Societies, Territories (UMR LISST,France).

Olivier Langlois is an archaeologist and research director at the CNRS and the UMR ‘Cultures et environnements Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen Âge’ (UMR Cepam, France).

Christian Seignobos is a geographer, and emeritus research director at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France.

Catherine Baroin is an anthropologist and research director at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and is part of Prehistoric Ethnology of the UMR ‘Archéologies et sciences de l’Antiquité’ (UMR Arscan, France).

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyPeace and Conflict StudiesSociology
Area: Africa


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