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Living by the gun in Chad : combatants, impunity and state formation / Marielle Debos ; translated by Andrew Brown.
Van Pelt Library DT546.484 .D4313 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Debos, Marielle, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Métier des armes au Tchad. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Chad. Armée nationale tchadienne.
- Chad.
- Political violence--Chad--History.
- Political violence.
- War and society--Chad.
- War and society.
- Armed Forces.
- History.
- Chad--Armed Forces.
- Chad--Politics and government--1990-.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 239 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Zed Books, [2016].
- Summary:
- How do people live in a country that has experienced rebellions and state-organised repressions for decades and that is still marked by routine forms of violence and impunity? What do combatants do when they are not mobilised for war? Drawing on over ten years of fieldwork conducted in Chad, Marielle Debos explains how living by the gun has become both an acceptable form of political expression and an everyday occupation. Contrary to the popular association of violence and chaos, she shows that these fighters continue to observe rules, frontiers and hierarchies, even as their allegiances shift between rebel and government forces, and as they drift between Chad, Libya, Sudan and the Central African Republic. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that ending the war is not enough. The issue is ending the 'inter-war' which is maintained and reproduced by state violence. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Armed violence: a (post)colonial history 25
- 1 Colonial wars and inter-wars 27
- 2 The professionalisation of armed violence 43
- Part II From one war to the next: rebellion, reintegration, defection 75
- 3 Fluid loyalties 77
- 4 Benefiting from war: the unequal share of war dividends 98
- Part III Governing with arms: the 'unnumbered decree' 119
- 5 A 'militianised' army 121
- 6 Governing the inter-war 147.
- Notes:
- Originally published in French: Paris : Editions Karthala, 2013.
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliography (pages 186-226), filmography (page 226), and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783605330
- 1783605332
- 9781783605323
- 1783605324
- OCLC:
- 944087506
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