Violent Becomings

State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-293-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Reihe: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment

Violent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of ordering. In doing so, this book addresses the question of why colonial and postcolonial state formation has involved violent articulations with so-called ‘traditional’ forms of sociality. The scope and dynamic nature of such violent becomings is explored through an array of contexts that include colonial regimes of forced labor and pacification, liberation war struggles and civil war, the social engineering of the post-independence state, and the popular appropriation of sovereign violence in riots and lynchings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations, Figures, and Maps

Acknowledgements

Note on Anonymity and Fieldwork

A Note on Language

Glossary

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

List of Key Historical and Contemporary Persons

Introduction

Chapter 1. Violence. War, State, and Anthropology in Mozambique

Chapter 2. Territory. Spatio-Historical Approaches to State Formation

Chapter 3. Spirit. Chiefly Authority, Soil, and Medium

Chapter 4. Body. Illness, Memory, and the Dynamics of Healing

Chapter 5. Sovereignty. The Mozambican President and the Ordering of Sorcery

Chapter 6. Economy. Substance, Production, and Accumulation

Chapter 7. Law. Political Authority and Multiple Sovereignties

Conclusion: Uncapturability, Dynamics, and Power

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen and has undertaken anthropological research in Mozambique since 1998.

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen and has undertaken anthropological research in Mozambique since 1998.