Culture in chaos : an anthropology of the social condition in war / Stephen C. Lubkemann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lubkemann, Stephen C., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War.

Social conflict.

Political violence.

Forced migration.

Physical Description:

x, 401 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Summary:

Fought in the wake of a decade of armed struggle against colonialism, the Mozambican civil war lasted from 1977 to 1992, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives while displacing millions more. As similar conflicts across the globe span decades and generations, Culture in Chaos calls for a new point of departure in the ethnography of war that investigates how the inhabitants of war zones live under trying new conditions and how culture and social relations are transformed as a result. Drawing, on over a decade of fieldwork in Mozambique and South' Africa, Stephen C. Lubkemann's challenging study is a critical reexamination of the concept of displacement and of social existence in violent settings-while his engagement with broader theories of agency and social change will be of interest to anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and demographers, and to anyone who works in a war zone or with refugees and migrants.

Contents:

Introduction: The "ordering of violent things" : war and displacement

Contending with colonialism : migration and resistance

Other struggles : migration and the transformation of social relations

Imposing the new Mozambique : sowing the seeds of postcolonial disillusion

Society and the state : mutual misrecognition at the gathering of war

Prosecuting life by other means : the social logic of violence in a fragmented war

Terrains of displacement : war-time mobility and immobility

Tambem aqui fazemos amor : living in war

Postconflict displacements : the social problematics of refugee return

Transnational contentions : the moral economy of postconflict migration

Where to be an ancestor? : the struggle for the postconflict social imagination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-391) and index.

ISBN:

9780226496412

0226496414

9780226496429

0226496422

OCLC:

129950028

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