Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians

Nicola Di Cosmo (Curatore)

Didier Fassin (Curatore)

Lexington Books, 2023

As a pervasive occurrence in the contemporary world, wars and their economic sources are defining social and political processes in a variety of national and transnational contexts. Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians explores historical, anthropological and political dimensions of war economies by non-state actors across different periods and regions, while presenting their multiple manifestations as a unified, congruent phenomenon. Through a variety of conceptual and disciplinary approaches, the authors investigate, in the past and present and across three continents, the nexuses between economy, war, social transformation and state-building, revealing in the process differences and similarities that would otherwise remain hidden. Through this broad-gauge approach, the book aims, first, to rethink much of the debate around "non-state war economies," and, secondly, to expand the conversation by consciously treating this theme as a conspicuous and distinct aspect of both economy and war. This is not just a different approach but a fundamental departure from the ways in which current discussions over the economy of wars, civil conflicts, and revolutions, have informed research orientations over several decades.

• Curatore: Nicola Di Cosmo, Didier Fassin
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 290 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 151 mm
• Peso: 431 gr.
• EAN: 9781793635211

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