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Understanding in the
current civil war in the Congo requires an
examination of how the Congo's identity has been
imagined over time. Imaging the Congo historicizes and
contextualizes the construction of the Congo's identity in order to
analyze its political limitations. The book looks in detail at four historical
periods in which the identity of the Congo was constructed, with
numerous forces attempting to produce and attach meanings to its territory
and people. Dunn examines how "imagining": of the Congo have
allowed the current state of affairs to develop, while also exploring the
broader conceptual question of how the concept of identity has developed and
became important in recent international relations scholarship.
Kevin C. Dunn is Assistant Professor
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, and Visiting
Professor at the Faculty of Development Studies, Mbarara
University of Science and Technology in Uganda. He is the coeditor of
Africa's Challenge to
International Relations Theory (Palgrave 2001).
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