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Violent Becomings

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Violent Becomings

By Bjorn Enge Bertelsen

1 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

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About the book

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 violent articulations with so-called `traditional' forms of sociality. The scope and dynamic nature of such violent becomings is explored through an array of contexts that include colonial regimes of ...Show more

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9781785332364

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published year

2016

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1

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Violent Becomings

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Hardcover

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