选举暴力的叙述:来自Côte科特迪瓦和尼日利亚的证据

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Faith I. Okpotor
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本文通过Côte科特迪瓦和尼日利亚受访者的生活经历来解决非洲选举后暴力(PEV)问题。在分析Côte科特迪瓦2010-2011年和尼日利亚2011年PEV时,采用了一种以行为者为中心的方法,沉浸在解释主义和反身性中。它从政党领导人、政党活动人士、选举委员会官员、非政府组织(NGO)官员、学者、学者和人权专家等不同行为者的角度审视政治价值观。该研究注重方法论和个人定位,借鉴了2014年和2015年进行的访谈。它还分析了导致对有争议的选举结果的暴力反应的主导话语,从而强调了允许暴力可能性的社会建构条件。从这些叙述中产生的突出问题包括:数十年来未解决的暴力事件在助长PEV方面的作用,政治领导人在利用与这些过去暴力事件有关的不满方面的作用,以及针对主要行为者的选举暴力预防战略在遏制暴力发展方面的力量。
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Narratives of Electoral Violence: Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria
ABSTRACT This article addresses post-election violence (PEV) in Africa by drawing on the lived experiences of respondents in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria. It takes an actor-centered approach steeped in interpretivism and reflexivity in analyzing Côte d’Ivoire’s 2010–2011 and Nigeria’s 2011 PEV. It examines PEV from the viewpoint of a variety of actors, including political party leaders, party activists, electoral commission officials, non-governmental organization (NGO) officials, academics, scholars, and human rights experts. With attention to methodological and personal positionality, the study draws on interviews conducted in 2014 and 2015. It also analyzes the dominant discourses that contributed to a violent reaction to a contested election outcome, and thus highlights the socially-constructed conditions that allow for the possibility of violence. Salient issues arising from these narratives include: the role of decades-long unresolved violence episodes in fueling PEV, the role of political leaders in exploiting grievances associated with these past violence episodes, and the power of electoral violence prevention strategies targeted at principal actors in curbing the progression to violence.
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Journal of the Middle East and Africa
Journal of the Middle East and Africa Arts and Humanities-History
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期刊介绍: The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, the flagship publication of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to include both the entire continent of Africa and the Middle East within its purview—exploring the historic social, economic, and political links between these two regions, as well as the modern challenges they face. Interdisciplinary in its nature, The Journal of the Middle East and Africa approaches the regions from the perspectives of Middle Eastern and African studies as well as anthropology, economics, history, international law, political science, religion, security studies, women''s studies, and other disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. It seeks to promote new research to understand better the past and chart more clearly the future of scholarship on the regions. The histories, cultures, and peoples of the Middle East and Africa long have shared important commonalities. The traces of these linkages in current events as well as contemporary scholarly and popular discourse reminds us of how these two geopolitical spaces historically have been—and remain—very much connected to each other and central to world history. Now more than ever, there is an acute need for quality scholarship and a deeper understanding of the Middle East and Africa, both historically and as contemporary realities. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa seeks to provide such understanding and stimulate further intellectual debate about them for the betterment of all.
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