| Description |
1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Veterans after Mozambique's civil war -- Veterans of new and old wars -- Studying veterans in comparative perspective -- Methods, sources, and terminology -- Narratives, ethics, and analysis -- Research process -- Terminology -- Centers and peripheries: patterns of war -- Explaining war in Mozambique -- Preindependence historical background -- Postindependence transformations -- Economic, social, and political change -- The war in Mossurize -- The war period in rural Renamo areas -- The war period in Frelimo villages -- War and resocialization -- Violence on the periphery: Renamo combatants, civilians, and war -- Renamo combatants and violence in Mozambique's war -- Ideas and memories of violence in historical context -- Narrations of war -- Recruitment and initiation in Renamo -- Denial and transferral of responsibility -- Political education and mobilization -- Relations with civilians: the re-creation of "home" -- Violence at the center: Frelimo combatants, civilians, and war -- Recruitment and training within Frelimo -- Social promotion and wartime profit -- Political education -- Relations with civilians -- The return to civilian life -- An incomplete rupture: postwar settlement and livelihoods -- Peace and settlement decisions -- Social negotiation and family acceptance -- Postwar livelihoods -- Veterans' politics from above -- Veterans and the state -- External assistance and veteran policies -- Veterans' politics from below -- The Veterans' Association -- Veterans, politics, and the war of words -- Concluding remarks -- Reevaluating veterans in postwar Mozambique -- Veterans, citizens, and the state -- Expectations and entitlements -- Parallels, not pathologies |
| Summary |
This is the first scholarly study of soldiers and guerrillas demobilized after the civil war in Mozambique (1979-1992). Based on extensive field-work with former combatants from both sides of the civil war in Mozambique and the communities in which they have settled, this takes a critical and empirical look at prevailing stereotypes about this extremely influential, yet poorly researched, social group in war-torn societies throughout Africa and worldwide. Jessica Schafer advances a wholesale re-evaluation of their roles and impact on post-war society. Combatants are "humanized" by examining, rather than assuming, the way war experiences shaped them both as social beings and as political actors. Schafer presents evidence of striking similarities between the social and political discourses of veterans from a wide range of war and post-war contexts, and makes a strong case for a comparative approach to studying veterans rather than the "new war" theories that have become popular in recent scholarly and media analyses |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Veterans -- Political activity -- Mozambique
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HISTORY -- Military -- Veterans.
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Politics and government
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Veterans -- Political activity
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Settlement assistance.
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Reintegration.
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Peace efforts.
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| SUBJECT |
Mozambique -- Politics and government -- 1994- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98000009
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Mozambique -- History -- Independence and Civil War, 1975-1994 -- Veterans -- Political activity
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Mozambique -- History -- 1994- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98000010
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| Subject |
Mozambique
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0230605710 |
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9780230605718 |
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9781349535712 |
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1349535710 |
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9786611366131 |
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661136613X |
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