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Record Nr.

UNINA9910219865503321

Autore

Iñiguez de Heredia Marta

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-2420-3

1-5261-0878-X

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Manchester International Relations

New approaches to conflict analysis

Disciplina

327.172096751

Soggetti

Peace-building - Congo (Democratic Republic)

Government, Resistance to - Congo (Democratic Republic)

Society and social sciences

Politics and government

International relations

POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African

Africa

Congo (Democratic Republic) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

'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.