Description

As a pervasive occurrence in the contemporary world, wars and their economic sources are defining social and political processes in a variety of national and transnational contexts. Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians explores historical, anthropological and political dimensions of war economies by non-state actors across different periods and regions, while presenting their multiple manifestations as a unified, congruent phenomenon. Through a variety of conceptual and disciplinary approaches, the authors investigate, in the past and present and across three continents, the nexuses between economy, war, social transformation and state-building, revealing in the process differences and similarities that would otherwise remain hidden. Through this broad-gauge approach, the book aims, first, to rethink much of the debate around “non-state war economies,” and, secondly, to expand the conversation by consciously treating this theme as a conspicuous and distinct aspect of both economy and war. This is not just a different approach but a fundamental departure from the ways in which current discussions over the economy of wars, civil conflicts, and revolutions, have informed research orientations over several decades.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Revisiting Non-State War Economies
Nicola Di Cosmo, Didier Fassin and Clémence Pinaud.
Part I: Frameworks
Chapter 1: What are Non-State War Economies? Prefatory Remarks
Didier Fassin.
Chapter 2: War Economies and War Economics
Christopher Cramer.
Chapter 3: War Economies and Humanitarian Action
Gilles Carbonnier.
Chapter 4: Rebel Taxation. Between Moral and Market Economy
Zachariah Mampilly.
Part II: Historical Perspective
Chapter 5: The War Economy of Nomadic Empires
Nicola Di Cosmo
Chapter 6: Non-State War Economy in Renaissance Italy
William Caferro.
Chapter 7: The Economy of Warlordism in Early Twentieth Century China
Edward McCord.
Part III: Contemporary Worlds
Chapter 8: Friend, Foe, or In-Between? Humanitarian Action and the Soviet-Afghan War
Jonathan Benthall.
Chapter 9: War Economy, Warlordism and Social Class Formation in South Sudan
Clémence Pinaud.
Chapter 10: Resource Wars, Oil and the Islamic State
Philippe Le Billon
Conclusion: New Perspectives on W

Product details

Published Mar 15 2023
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 290
ISBN 9781793635211
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 1 b/w illustrations; 2 tables;
Dimensions 228 x 151 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Nicola Di Cosmo

Anthology Editor

Didier Fassin

Anthology Editor

Clémence Pinaud

Contributor

William Caferro

Contributor

Nicola Di Cosmo

Contributor

Didier Fassin

Contributor

Edward McCord

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