Teresa Koloma Beck

The Normality of Civil War (eBook, PDF)

Armed Groups and Everyday Life in Angola

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Produktbeschreibung

Krieg gilt gemeinhin als Ausnahmezustand, den es zu überwinden gilt. Anhand der jüngeren Geschichte Angolas zeigt Teresa Koloma Beck, wie die Präsenz von Gewalt und Gewaltakteuren zur Herausbildung einer eigenen Normalität des Bürgerkriegs führen kann. Das Buch wirft nicht nur ein neues Licht auf soziale Dynamiken in Bürgerkriegen, sondern auch auf typische Probleme in Nachkriegsgesellschaften.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Campus Verlag
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783593418551
• Artikelnr.: 37174591

Autorenporträt

Teresa Koloma Beck, Dr. phil., forscht an der Willy Brandt School of Public Policy der Universität Erfurt.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents

List of Acronyms 7

Acknowledgements 9

1. Introduction 11

1.1 The problem: the expansion of civil war into everyday life 13

1.2 The challenge: thinking the everyday 16

1.3 The conceptual framework: theories of the everyday 19

1.4 The case study: civil war in Angola (1976-2002) 21

1.5 Outline of the book 24

2. Theorising violent conflict: state of research 27

2.1 Micropolitical theories of violent conflict 28

2.2 Social theory approaches to violent conflict 32

2.3 Summary and implications for research 35

3. Normalities at war: a theoretical perspective on everyday

life in violent conflicts 39

3.1 Subject and life-world: theorising "normal" experiences 40

3.2 "Terror as usual": the transformation

of normality in violent conflict 57

4. Historical Background 69

4.1 Pre-colonial societies and weak colonial rule 71

4.2 The Estado Novo and the rise of nationalism 73

4.3 From anti-colonial struggle to independence 75

4.4 From independence to civil war 77

4.5 The Civil War 79

5. From the bush movement to the quasi-state (and back):

UNITA as an organisation 83

5.1 The militant anti-colonial guerrilla: 1966-76 85

5.2 The successful armed group: 1976-1989 96

5.3 Disintegration and decline: 1989-2002 104

6. Staging normality: UNITA as a life-world 109

6.1 "I have always been a soldier":

recruiting members 111

6.2. "Weapon, hoe and pen":

forming the UNITA combatant 113

6.3 Like from a different world:

the success of UNITA's social project 117

7. "We lived in an eternal war": life in the warscapes 121

7.1 Defending everyday life: adaptations to civil war violence 124

7.2 States of emergency: limits of normalisation 134

7.3 Orders of violence: accommodation to armed

groups' rule 137

8. Conclusion 143

Bibliography 149

Index 161