Nikkie Wiegink

Former Guerrillas in Mozambique (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A sensitive ethnography of former Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) combatants After sixteen years of civil war (1976-1992) between the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) and the government of Mozambique, over 90,000 former combatants were disarmed and demobilized by a United Nations-led program. Former combatants were to find their ways as civilians again, assisted by community-based reintegration rituals. While the process was often presented as a success story of peace, renewed armed conflict involving RENAMO combatants in 2013 and onward suggests that the reintegration of former guerrillas was a far more complex story. In Former Guerrillas in Mozambique, Nikkie Wiegink describes the trajectories of former RENAMO combatants in Maringue, a rural district in central Mozambique. Rather than focus on violence, trauma, and the reacceptance of these ex-combatants by the community, Wiegink emphasizes the ways in which RENAMO veterans have navigated unstable and sometimes dangerous social and political environments during and after the war. She examines the experiences of both male and female war veterans and their attempts at securing a tolerable life. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork conducted long after the war ended, Former Guerrillas in Mozambique offers a critique of a notion of reintegration that assumes that the lives of former combatants are shaped first by a break with society when joining the armed group and later by a break with the past when demobilizing and a return to a status quo. Wiegink argues, instead, that former combatants' motivations, experiences, and interactions are not necessarily characterized by a rigid separation from their RENAMO past, but rather comprise a mixture of ruptures and continuities of relationships and networks, including families, the spiritual world, fellow former combatants, political parties, and the state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780812296907
• Artikelnr.: 59539005

Autorenporträt

Nikkie Wiegink teaches in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
Part I. Setting the Stage
Chapter 1. War Stories
Chapter 2. When Elephants Fight
Part II. Family Affairs
Chapter 3. Wartime Kin and Wartime Husbands
Chapter 4. Navigating the Supernatural World
Chapter 5. Why Did the Soldiers Not Return Home?
Part III. Navigating Politics
Chapter 6. About Eating and Drinking
Chapter 7. "Only a Bit Mozambican"
Conclusion
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments