Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: socialists and skinheads : Abidjan, 2003 -- Cãote d'Ivoire -- A chronology of the crisis -- Chapters -- Pillage and principle: making distinctions in a frontier zone -- Thirdness -- Ecology and economy -- Personhood -- Warfare -- Conclusion -- The politics of ressentiment -- Introduction -- Strangers and hosts along the upper Guinea coast -- The rights of the autochthonous and the imposition of the state in Cãote d'Ivoire's cocoa-producing west -- Planters, but not mediocre planters -- 'On peut instrumentaliser une râealitâe': the development of an Ivorian politics of resentment -- Violence as discourse, violence as practice -- Decolonisation and dramaturgy -- The "problem" of African youth -- Fesci and its alumni -- Free money: the transition from zouglou to coupâe dâecalâe -- "This is play" -- "La deuxiáeme guerre d'independence" and the rhetoric of revolution -- "Is this play?" : the media and the events of November 2004 -- Does it matter if this is play? -- Following the money: the cocoa-coffee filiáere -- The history of the filiáere -- Intergenerational tensions -- The filiáere restructured and ready to do business -- From "L" or brun to "l"or noir: the reintroduction of petroleum production as part of the Ivorian political economy -- Neither war nor peace: the sociology of a state of emergency -- What causes civil conflict in west Africa? -- Case study: the third assistant to the mayor of Guiglo -- Checkpoint ethnography: economic gain and the threat of violence -- Alignment -- Manchester in Guiglo?.