Timothy Raeymaekers 
Violence on the Margins [PDF ebook] 
States, Conflict, and Borderlands

PART I: INTRODUCING A BORDERLAND PERSPECTIVE 1. Border, Frontier, and the Geography of Rule at the Margins of the State; Benedikt Korf and Timothy Raeymaekers 2. Geographies of Violence and Sovereignty: The African Frontier Revisited; Tobias Hagmann, Martin Doevenspeck, and Benedikt Korf 3. Centering Borders and Borderlands: The Evidence from Africa; Markus Virgil Hoehne and Dereje Feyissa PART II: THE BORDER’S ROUGH TERRAIN: VIOLENCE, SECURITY, AND THE BORDER 4. Treading a Fine Line: State Making and Conflict within Eastern Burma; Sylvia Brown 5. Navigating the Urban ‘In-Between Space’: Local Livelihood and Identity Strategies in Exploiting the Goma/Gisenyi Border; Karen Buscher and Gillian Mathys PART III: THE BORDER AS FRONTIER: STATES, SOVEREIGNTY, AND IDENTITY 6. Dangerous Divisions: Peace Building in the Borderlands of Post-Soviet Central Asia; Christine Bichsel 7. State Making and the Suspension of Law in India’s Northeast: The Place of Exception in the Assam-Nagaland Border Dispute; Bert Suykens PART IV: ‘BRINGING THE STATE BACK IN’: BORDERS, WAR ECONOMIES, AND PEACE ECONOMIES 8. Get It While You Can: Building Business and Bureaucracy between Wars in the Uganda-Sudan Borderland; Wolfgang Zeller 9. When Civil Wars Hibernate in Borderlands: The Challenges of the Casamance ‘Forgotten Civil War’ to Cross-Border Peace and Security; Aboubakr Tandia Epilogue: The View from the Border; Jonathan Goodhand

Tobias Hagmann, University of California at Berkeley, USA Martin Doevenspeck, University of Bayreuth, Germany Sylvia Brown, Assistant Professor, Denison University, USA Gillian Mathys, Graduate Student, University of Ghent, Belgium Christine Bichsel, Senior Researcher, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Bert Suykens, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Ghent, Belgium Wolfgang Zeller, African Borderlands Research Network, University of Edinburgh, UK Aboubakr Tandia, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal Jonathan Goodhand, Professor, Department of Development Studies, SOAS