Nathalie Wlodarczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 4051274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathalie Wlodarczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Wlodarczyk |
| SIGNATURE | WLODARCZYK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
African Traditional Religion and Violence
This chapter analyzes a wide range of African customs and legends. It demonstrates that African traditional religion offers notions of a thriving spirit world which provides “sacred warriors” ritualized protections and martial enhancements when defense of community is urgent. African traditional religion remains primarily an African phenomenon and, as a result, is tightly associated with the cultures and realities of the continent. The role of re…
The Sierra Leone Civil War and Civil Defense
At the start of the war in 1991, the Sierra Leone Army (SLA) started to make use of local hunters as scouts during army patrols, drawing advantage from their knowledge of the local terrain. Simultaneously, local communities began to organize defense groups to fill the gap left by the underfunded and poorly equipped army that was providing poor protection from the advancing rebel forces. Like any war, the civil war in Sierra Leone was the result o…
Spiritual Context as Habitus and Capital
To contextualize the particular case of the Kamajors, we must look more closely at trie particular beliefs and practices that constituted the cosmology and spiritual habitus within which the armed groups emerged. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Spirits In Battle
If magic has been a mainstay of African warfare in this century as well as previous ones it should be reflected in the writings on war in Africa produced in this time. It would be an exaggeration to say that all authors dealing with conflict on the continent reference the use of magic, but many do. In fact some do so extensively and with great insight. Writing about the Holy Spirit Movement in northern Uganda, Heike Behrend shows us in some detai…
Thinking About Practice in Warfare
Evaluating the role of spiritual practice in warfare throws up a number of challenges. For a start, even though we can define magic as a type of practice with contemporary relevance, as seen in chapter 2, and identify examples of magical practice on African battlefields as in chapter 3, to reach deeper below the surface we need to look more carefully at specific practices. If we do not, our analysis risks straying into the territory of cultural e…
“Magic” In Contemporary Africa
"Magic" has become shorthand for using invisible supernatural power to affect people and events in the visible and tangible human world. Although in the West it tends to equate with fortune-tellers at funfairs, teenagers dressed in black with pentagrams around their necks, or more sinister groups practicing blood rituals, the contemporary remit of "magic" is in fact much broader. Most mainstream religions include ritualistic practice intended to …
Magic and Warfare
This study explores the roles played by magic in contemporary African warfare, specifically through the case of Sierra Leone, to assess its impact on behaviour in conflict. A conceptual framework is s
Politically Enfranchising the Non-political
This article considers the nature of the Civil Defence Forces (CDF) in Sierra Leone as a fighting force, and some of the challenges they faced for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), as well as the challenges posed by a group like the CDF to the DDR process. It considers some initiatives to educate the fighters about democracy, reconciliation and their associated responsibilities that began already during the civil war, as well a…
Magic and Warfare
Introduction 'Magic' in Contemporary Africa Spirits in Battle Thinking About Practice in Warfare Notes on the Case Study The Sierra Leone Civil War and Civil Defence Spiritual Context as Habitus and Capital Creating Magic Soldiers - Kamajor Mobilisation and Initiation The Kamajors in Battle - Magic, Tactics and Success Local Practice and the Wider World of Warfare
Aspects of violence and the logic of conflict and peace in Africa
Politically Enfranchising the Non-political
This article considers the nature of the Civil Defence Forces (CDF) in Sierra Leone as a fighting force, and some of the challenges they faced for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), as well as the challenges posed by a group like the CDF to the DDR process. It considers some initiatives to educate the fighters about democracy, reconciliation and their associated responsibilities that began already during the civil war, as well a…
Aspects of violence and the logic of conflict and peace in Africa
The Sierra Leone Civil War and Civil Defense
At the start of the war in 1991, the Sierra Leone Army (SLA) started to make use of local hunters as scouts during army patrols, drawing advantage from their knowledge of the local terrain. Simultaneously, local communities began to organize defense groups to fill the gap left by the underfunded and poorly equipped army that was providing poor protection from the advancing rebel forces. Like any war, the civil war in Sierra Leone was the result o…
Spiritual Context as Habitus and Capital
To contextualize the particular case of the Kamajors, we must look more closely at trie particular beliefs and practices that constituted the cosmology and spiritual habitus within which the armed groups emerged. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Spirits In Battle
If magic has been a mainstay of African warfare in this century as well as previous ones it should be reflected in the writings on war in Africa produced in this time. It would be an exaggeration to say that all authors dealing with conflict on the continent reference the use of magic, but many do. In fact some do so extensively and with great insight. Writing about the Holy Spirit Movement in northern Uganda, Heike Behrend shows us in some detai…
Thinking About Practice in Warfare
Evaluating the role of spiritual practice in warfare throws up a number of challenges. For a start, even though we can define magic as a type of practice with contemporary relevance, as seen in chapter 2, and identify examples of magical practice on African battlefields as in chapter 3, to reach deeper below the surface we need to look more carefully at specific practices. If we do not, our analysis risks straying into the territory of cultural e…
“Magic” In Contemporary Africa
"Magic" has become shorthand for using invisible supernatural power to affect people and events in the visible and tangible human world. Although in the West it tends to equate with fortune-tellers at funfairs, teenagers dressed in black with pentagrams around their necks, or more sinister groups practicing blood rituals, the contemporary remit of "magic" is in fact much broader. Most mainstream religions include ritualistic practice intended to …
Magic and Warfare
This study explores the roles played by magic in contemporary African warfare, specifically through the case of Sierra Leone, to assess its impact on behaviour in conflict. A conceptual framework is s
Politically Enfranchising the Non-political
This article considers the nature of the Civil Defence Forces (CDF) in Sierra Leone as a fighting force, and some of the challenges they faced for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), as well as the challenges posed by a group like the CDF to the DDR process. It considers some initiatives to educate the fighters about democracy, reconciliation and their associated responsibilities that began already during the civil war, as well a…
Magic and Warfare
Introduction 'Magic' in Contemporary Africa Spirits in Battle Thinking About Practice in Warfare Notes on the Case Study The Sierra Leone Civil War and Civil Defence Spiritual Context as Habitus and Capital Creating Magic Soldiers - Kamajor Mobilisation and Initiation The Kamajors in Battle - Magic, Tactics and Success Local Practice and the Wider World of Warfare
African Traditional Religion and Violence
This chapter analyzes a wide range of African customs and legends. It demonstrates that African traditional religion offers notions of a thriving spirit world which provides “sacred warriors” ritualized protections and martial enhancements when defense of community is urgent. African traditional religion remains primarily an African phenomenon and, as a result, is tightly associated with the cultures and realities of the continent. The role of re…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · MAGIC (telescope) (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sierra leone (4 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works)