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Understanding Experiences and Decisions in Situations of Enduring Hardship in Africa.
- Source :
- Conflict & Society; 2018, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p186-198, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Th e enduring experience of hardship, in the form of layers of various crises, can become deeply ingrained in a society, and people can come to act and react under these conditions as if they lead a normal life. This process is explored through the analytical concept of duress, which contains three elements: enduring and accumulating layers of hardship over time, the normalization of this hardship, and a form of deeply constrained agency. We argue that decisions made in duress have a significant impact on the social and political structures of society. This concept of duress is used as a lens to understand the lives of individual people and societies in Central and West Africa that have a long history of ecological, political, and social conflicts and crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HARDSHIP
COMMUNITIES
DURESS (Law)
NORMALIZATION (Sociology)
SOCIAL structure
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21644543
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Conflict & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 133014961
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2018.040114