Corinna Jentzsch

Violent Resistance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By relying on extensive fieldwork from Mozambique, Violent Resistance explains when, where, and how communities form militias to defend themselves against violence. This book defines a research agenda on militias as social movements and an integral part of armed conflict, and revisits the historiography of the civil war in Mozambique.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009514491
• ISBN-10: 1009514490
• Artikelnr.: 70600598

Autorenporträt

Corinna Jentzsch is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Leiden University. She received her PhD from Yale University and studied at Free University Berlin and Sciences Po Paris. Her research interests include civilian collection action in civil war and conflict escalation. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in southern Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: militias in civil wars
2. Third actors and civilian agency: moving beyond a dichotomous understanding of civil wars
3. Intervention, autonomy, and power in polarized societies: challenges and opportunities of historical fieldwork
4. A war over people: an analysis of Mozambique's civil war
5. People tired of war: the timing of community-initiated militia formation
6. The diffusion of repertoires of collective action: the location of community-initiated militia formation
7. The power of a vaccine: the process of community-initiated militia formation
8. Conclusion: violence and civilian agency in civil wars
Appendix: data collection and analysis
References
Index.