Violent Becomings

Violent BecomingsViolent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation state, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of ordering. In doing so, this book addresses the question of why colonial and postcolonial state formation has involved violent articulations with so called traditional forms of sociality. The scope and dynamic nature of such violent becomings is explored through an array of

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