Overview
- Contextualizes the African experience with guns and gun control in a global and international context
- Draws from ethnographic research on gun control in The Gambia, West Africa
- Demonstrates how the efficacy of small arms control is inflected by social and cultural factors
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book, based on field research in the West African country of The Gambia, explores how domestic gun control is shaped by international efforts and how local actors interact with international organizations or opt not to do so. The book also shows how the question of who can have what kind of gun under what circumstances is an intrinsic question to modern societies across the world, but it is seldom one that is addressed in sub-Saharan Africa except in cases of post-conflict countries. Small arms control and gun control are often treated as separate efforts, with the former the domain of international actors such as the United Nations and the latter being of concern to the domestic politics of countries such as the United States. By focusing on a country that has never seen the outbreak of a civil war, the book is able to disentangle the complex roots of gun control in Africa, its origins in colonial era legislation, its reverberations across social life, and how it shapes contemporary understandings of groups ranging for security guards to hunters.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Niklas Hultin is Assistant Professor in the Global Affairs Program at George Mason University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Domestic Gun Control and International Small Arms Control in Africa
Authors: Niklas Hultin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07738-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07737-1Published: 09 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07740-1Published: 10 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07738-8Published: 08 August 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 273
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Governance and Government, International Relations Theory, International Security Studies, Social Anthropology, Violence and Crime, African Politics