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Soldiers at peace : veterans and society after the civil war in Mozambique / Jessica Schafer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schafer, Jessica.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Veterans.
- Political participation.
- Mozambique--Politics and government--1994-.
- Mozambique.
- Politics and government.
- Mozambique--History--Independence and Civil War, 1975-1994--Veterans--Political activity.
- Veterans--Political activity--Mozambique.
- Veterans--Political activity.
- Mozambique--History--1994-.
- Physical Description:
- x, 244 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- This is the first scholarly study of soldiers and guerrillas demobilized after the civil war in Mozambique (1979-1992). The author's groundbreaking field work with former combatants on both sides of the civil war challenges many assumptions about veterans of post-independence wars in Africa. The book examines former soldiers' return to civilian life, and how their identity as veterans plays out in the political sphere.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Veterans after Mozambique's civil war
- Veterans of new and old wars
- Studying veterans in comparative perspective
- Methods, sources, and terminology
- Narratives, ethics, and analysis
- Research process
- Terminology
- Centers and peripheries: patterns of war
- Explaining war in Mozambique
- Preindependence historical background
- Postindependence transformations
- Economic, social, and political change
- The war in Mossurize
- The war period in rural Renamo areas
- The war period in Frelimo villages
- War and resocialization
- Violence on the periphery: Renamo combatants, civilians, and war
- Renamo combatants and violence in Mozambique's war
- Ideas and memories of violence in historical context
- Narrations of war
- Recruitment and initiation in Renamo
- Denial and transferral of responsibility
- Political education and mobilization
- Relations with civilians: the re-creation of "home"
- Violence at the center: Frelimo combatants, civilians, and war
- Recruitment and training within Frelimo
- Social promotion and wartime profit
- Political education
- Relations with civilians
- The return to civilian life
- An incomplete rupture: postwar settlement and livelihoods
- Peace and settlement decisions
- Social negotiation and family acceptance
- Postwar livelihoods
- Veterans' politics from above
- Veterans and the state
- External assistance and veteran policies
- Veterans' politics from below
- The Veterans' Association
- Veterans, politics, and the war of words
- Concluding remarks
- Reevaluating veterans in postwar Mozambique
- Veterans, citizens, and the state
- Expectations and entitlements
- Parallels, not pathologies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403975035
- 9781403975034
- OCLC:
- 77048134
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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