Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-making : Insights from 'Africa's World War' /

Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of 'Africa's World War' in the DRC, it locates resistance...

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Main Author: Iñiguez de Heredia, Marta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Chronology
  • Introduction. Resistance and the liberal peace: A missing link
  • 1. Legitimacy, violence and extraction in the practice of building states
  • 2. Patterns and practices of everyday resistance: a view from below
  • 3. History and present of 'Africa's World War'
  • 4. Claims to legitimate authority and discursive Attacks
  • 5. Everyday violence and Mai Mai Militias in Eastern DRC
  • 6. Creative survival as subversion
  • 7. Everyday resistance and everyday order in world politics
  • Bibliography
  • Index.