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5 Everyday violence and Mai Mai militias in Eastern DRC
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures, maps and tables viii
- Acknowledgements ix
- List of abbreviations xi
- Chronology xiii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Legitimacy, violence and extraction in the practice of building states 25
- 2 Patterns and practices of everyday resistance 50
- 3 The history and present of ‘Africa’s World War’ 75
- 4 Claims to legitimate authority and discursive attacks 106
- 5 Everyday violence and Mai Mai militias in Eastern DRC 127
- 6 Creative survival as subversion 153
- 7 Everyday resistance and everyday order in world politics 179
- References 196
- Index 229
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures, maps and tables viii
- Acknowledgements ix
- List of abbreviations xi
- Chronology xiii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Legitimacy, violence and extraction in the practice of building states 25
- 2 Patterns and practices of everyday resistance 50
- 3 The history and present of ‘Africa’s World War’ 75
- 4 Claims to legitimate authority and discursive attacks 106
- 5 Everyday violence and Mai Mai militias in Eastern DRC 127
- 6 Creative survival as subversion 153
- 7 Everyday resistance and everyday order in world politics 179
- References 196
- Index 229