Sporadically radical : ethnographies of organized violence and militant mobilization / edited by Steffen Jensen & Henrik Vigh

Published:: Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, [2018]
Physical Description:: 274 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Jensen, Steffen and Vigh, Henrik, 1969-

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Critical anthropology ; vol. 5

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Social Closure and Militant Openings: Tangentiality, Homology and the Struggle for Social Being in Guinea Bissau / Henrik Vigh -- Shaky Grounds: Risk, Profit and Violent Mobilization in Sierra Leone / Maya Mynster Christensen -- Thresholds of Mobilization: Coercion and Opportunity in Bangladesh Student Politics / Morten Koch Andersen -- Sacrificial Temporality: The Kenyan Mungiki's Ritualized Mobilization / Jacob Rasmussen -- A World of Significance: Equality, Ritual and Violence in a Manila Fraternity / Steffen Jensen -- Culture Wars: Post-Revolutionary Mobilization in Nepal / Dan Vesalainen Hirslund -- Spectres of the Other: Post-War Mobilization in Uganda / Cecilie Lanken Verma -- "The Additional Past": Struggles of Demobilization and Homecoming Narratives in Northern Uganda / Helle Harnisch.

Summary:

What makes young men willing to risk their lives by enrolling in violent organizations? How do these organizations persuade young men to do so? In the age of radicalization, these questions are central to most debates about politics and globalization. Through long-term ethnographic fieldwork in various conflict settings, this volume explores both the violent organizations that entice young people to engage in conflict and how these same young people answer the call. It takes the reader into the worlds of Maoists in Nepal; ex-combatants, mercenaries, religious ?zealots? and drug dealers in West Africa; violent student politics in Bangladesh; ethno-nationalist vigilante groups in Kenya; both sides of the war between LRA and the Ugandan state as well as gang-like fraternities in the Philippines. When researched in situ and in-depth, these mobilizations show themselves to be multiple, performative and temporary, just as people may show themselves to be more sporadically radical than ideologically locked down.

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Cross-cultural studies

ISBN:

9788763546027 paperback
8763546027 paperback

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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