Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique

ISBN-13: 9781108837453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 244 str.

Corinna (Universiteit Leiden) Jentzsch

Opis

Using original fieldwork, Violent Resistance explains when, where, and how communities form militias to defend themselves in civil wars.

Recenzje

'Jentzsch's work distinguishes between two types of militia in Mozambique: community initiated and state-initiated … This book contributes also to deepening our understanding of how civilians during the civil war sought 'third-way' strategies, not fully endorsing either of the two key belligerents, Frelimo and Renamo.' Alex Vines, Journal of Southern African Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction: militias in civil wars; 2. Third actors and civilian agency: moving beyond a dichotomous understanding of civil wars; 3. Intervention, autonomy, and power in polarized societies: challenges and opportunities of historical fieldwork; 4. A war over people: an analysis of Mozambique's civil war; 5. People tired of war: the timing of community-initiated militia formation; 6. The diffusion of repertoires of collective action: the location of community-initiated militia formation; 7. The power of a vaccine: the process of community-initiated militia formation; 8. Conclusion: violence and civilian agency in civil wars; Appendix: data collection and analysis; References; Index.