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  title info:
    title: Politics of fear in South Sudan
    sub title: generating chaos, creating conflict
  name:
    name part: Thiong, Daniel Akech
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 192 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: When asked in 2016 if he would step down as President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir replied 'my exit could spark genocide.' Kiir's words exemplify how fear and the threat of mass violence have become central to the politics of South Sudan. As South Sudanese analyst Daniel Akech Thiong shows, it is this politics that lies at the heart of the country's seemingly intractable civil war. In this book, Akech Thiong explores the origins of South Sudan's politics of fear. Weaving together social, economic and cultural factors into a comprehensive framework, he reveal how the country's elites have exploited ethnic divisions as a means of mobilising support and securing their grip on power, in the process triggering violent conflict. He also considers the ways in which this politics of fear takes root among the wider populace, exploring the role of corruption, social media and state coercion in spreading hatred and fostering mass violence. As regimes across Africa and around the world become increasingly reliant on their own politics of fear, Akech Thiong's book offers novel insight into a growing phenomenon with implications far beyond South Sudan.
  note: Daniel Akech Thiong.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sd---
  subject:
    topic: Fear
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: South Sudan
  subject:
    geographic: South Sudan
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: South Sudan
    topic: History
  classification: DT159.944 T45 2021
  classification: 962.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Politics and development in contemporary Africa
  identifier: 1786996782
  identifier: 9781786996787
  identifier: 9781786996817 (ePub ebook)
  identifier: 9781786996800 (PDF ebook)
  identifier: 9781786996824 (Kindle ebook)
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200613
    record change date: 20220105170341.0
    record identifier: in00004366848