Violent becomings : state formation, sociality, and power in Mozambique

Violent becomings : state formation, sociality, and power in Mozambique /

Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Series:Ethnography, theory, experiment.
Subjects:
Political violence > Mozambique.
Nation-building > Mozambique.
Anthropology.
Violence in society.
Social Science > Violence in Society.
Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural.
Political Science > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Nation-building
Political violence
Politics and government
Social conditions
Mozambique > Politics and government.
Mozambique > Social conditions.
Mozambique > Politique et gouvernement.
Mozambique > Conditions sociales.
Mozambique
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Summary:Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-310) and index.
ISBN:9781785332371
1785332376
9781785334290
1785334298
9781785332364
1785332368
9781785332937
1785332937

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