Contextualising Violence in Colonial Africa - European National Development, Empire and Lineages of Conflict
Author(s)
Krozewski, Gerold
Abstract
The paper emphasizes the importance of studying a conflict’s contexuality, as opposed to just its articulation, and, to argue this point, takes on an indirect perspective to understand conflict in Africa by setting out from European nation states during the interwar period. The intersection of development policies, state projects, and material subtexts are analyzed to gain an understanding of how and why conflict was constructed and violence generated. The author concludes that conflict in colonial Africa is partially rooted in ‘ordinary’ European control mechanisms and conceptions of development.
