Violent Becomings State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique

• Main Author: Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berghahn Books 2016
• Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
• Subjects: Colonialism & imperialism; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Violence in society; Political Science; Anthropology; Sociology; Security Studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...