A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

for ‘memory’ read also ‘knowledge’, ‘information’

Domain

• 20th century southeastern Nigeria
• emphasis on post-1945, and esp. independent Nigeria
• Conceptualising a political economy of ‘Igboness’ – ’symbolic economy’ (does this have a useful meaning?)
• COR State as proxy/aggregate of grievances

Dimensions for analysis

• intergenerational contexts and conflict (information flows)
• resource creation, identification, and access
• public domain/’civil society’

Components (please add!)

• development, humanitarianism and conflict in Biafra

Partners

• Oxford – Africa (esp. SE Nigeria) in history, anthropology, political science
• Uyo – academics (history, anthropology?, geography) and logistics
• other Nigerian universities?
• Funding bodies – British Academy, etc.

Notes

what sorts of records do we need/can we identify? and how?
is this about minorities and decolonisation?

(for clarification, when I write about humanitarianism as a component of this broader issue of violence and memory, what I’m trying to get at is the way in which the complex (hybrid?) heritage of development helped shape both a vocabulary of resource entitlement, and a differential degree of access to (or ‘opportunity regarding’) these resources.)

for ‘memory’ read also ‘knowledge’, ‘information’

Domain

• 20th century southeastern Nigeria
• emphasis on post-1945, and esp. independent Nigeria
• Conceptualising a political economy of ‘Igboness’ – ’symbolic economy’ (does this have a useful meaning?)
• COR State as proxy/aggregate of grievances

Dimensions for analysis

• intergenerational contexts and conflict (information flows)
• resource creation, identification, and access
• public domain/’civil society’

Components (please add!)

• development, humanitarianism and conflict in Biafra

Partners

• Oxford – Africa (esp. SE Nigeria) in history, anthropology, political science
• Uyo – academics (history, anthropology?, geography) and logistics
• other Nigerian universities?
• Funding bodies – British Academy, etc.

Notes

what sorts of records do we need/can we identify? and how?
is this about minorities and decolonisation?

(for For clarification, when I write about humanitarianism as a component of this broader issue of violence and memory, what I’m trying to get at is the way in which the complex (hybrid?) heritage of development helped shape both a vocabulary of resource entitlement, and a differential degree of access to (or ‘opportunity regarding’) these resources.)resources.

for ‘memory’ read also ‘knowledge’, ‘information’

Domain

• 20th century southeastern Nigeria
• emphasis on post-1945, and esp. independent Nigeria
• Conceptualising a political economy of ‘Igboness’ – ’symbolic economy’ (does this have a useful meaning?)
• COR State as proxy/aggregate of grievances

Dimensions for analysis

• intergenerational contexts and conflict (information flows)
• resource creation, identification, and access
• public domain/’civil society’

Components (please add!)

Partners

• Oxford – Africa (esp. SE Nigeria) in history, anthropology, political science
• Uyo – academics (history, anthropology?, geography) and logistics
• other Nigerian universities?
• Funding bodies – British Academy, etc.

Notes

what sorts of records do we need/can we identify? and how?
is this about minorities and decolonisation?

For clarification, when I write about humanitarianism as a component of this broader issue of violence and memory, what I’m trying to get at is the way in which the complex (hybrid?) heritage of development helped shape both a vocabulary of resource entitlement, and a differential degree of access to (or ‘opportunity regarding’) these resources.