Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making : insights from 'Africa's World War' / Marta Iñiguez de Heredia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iñiguez de Heredia, Marta, author.

Contributor:

Iñiguez de Heredia, Marta, contributor.

Series:

New approaches to conflict analysis.

Manchester International Relations

New approaches to conflict analysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building--Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Peace-building.

Government, Resistance to--Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Government, Resistance to.

Democratic Republic of the Congo--Politics and government.

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 235 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making' addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of 'Africa's World War' in the DRC, it locates resistance in the experiences of war, peacebuilding and state-making by exploring discourses, violence and everyday forms of survival as quotidian acts that attempt to challenge or mitigate such experiences. The analysis of resistance offers a possibility to bring the historical and sociological aspects of both peacebuilding and the case of the DRC, providing new nuanced understanding on these processes and the particular case. The book also makes a significant contribution to the theorisation of resistance in International Relations.--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Abbreviations

Chronology

Introduction. Resistance and the liberal peace: A missing link

1. Legitimacy, violence and extraction in the practice of building states

2. Patterns and practices of everyday resistance: a view from below

3. History and present of 'Africa's World War'

4. Claims to legitimate authority and discursive Attacks

5. Everyday violence and Mai Mai Militias in Eastern DRC

6. Creative survival as subversion

7. Everyday resistance and everyday order in world politics

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526124203

1526124203

9781526108784

152610878X

OCLC:

1103704180

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access