Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. List of figures, maps and tables viii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. List of abbreviations xi
7. Chronology xiii
8. Introduction 1
9. 1 Legitimacy, violence and extraction in the practice of building states 25
10. 2 Patterns and practices of everyday resistance 50
11. 3 The history and present of ‘Africa’s World War’ 75
12. 4 Claims to legitimate authority and discursive attacks 106
13. 5 Everyday violence and Mai Mai militias in Eastern DRC 127
14. 6 Creative survival as subversion 153
15. 7 Everyday resistance and everyday order in world politics 179
16. References 196
17. Index 229