Title: VIOLENCE, JUST IN TIME: War and Work in Contemporary West Africa
Abstract: Cultural AnthropologyVolume 26, Issue 1 p. 34-57 VIOLENCE, JUST IN TIME: War and Work in Contemporary West Africa DANIEL HOFFMAN, DANIEL HOFFMAN University of WashingtonSearch for more papers by this author DANIEL HOFFMAN, DANIEL HOFFMAN University of WashingtonSearch for more papers by this author First published: 03 February 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01079.xCitations: 55Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat ABSTRACT The recent war in Sierra Leone and Liberia is connected in both the scholarly literature and the popular imaginary to the global economy via the diamond trade. Yet there is another way to think the connection between war and work. In this article, I ask what it would mean to think of the violence young men in the region's militia movements performed as a mode of post-Fordism. This stands in sharp contrast to recent writing on conflict in Africa, writing that focuses on how violence is a process of identity formation. By contrast, I suggest that "identity" was not a problematic category for fighters in this war. Their own identities could be comfortably contradictory, and the identities of their enemies were a minor issue at best. What mattered was the work of violence, work that increasingly took on the character of emergent modes of what has been called "just-in-time" production. 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