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Making sense of violence: voices of soldiers in the Congo (DRC)
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- Eriksson Baaz, Maria, 1971 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för globala studier, freds- och utvecklingsforskning,School of Global Studies, Peace and Development Research,School of Global Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Stern, Maria, 1966 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för globala studier, freds- och utvecklingsforskning,School of Global Studies, Peace and Development Research
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- 2008
- 2008
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: The Journal of Modern African Studies. - 0022-278X .- 1469-7777. ; 46:1, s. 57-86
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Abstract
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- During the last years the DRC has made itself known in the world for terrible acts of violence committed by armed men – militia and the regular army – against the civilian population. The voices of the soldiers and combatants have so far been absent in the accounts of this violence. This silence is problematic, both because it makes it harder to understand such violence, but also because it reinforces stereotypes of African warriors as primitive and anarchic, driven by innate violence and tribal hatred. Enquiry into the particular discursive as well as material circumstances of the armed conflict in the DRC, which might better redress the complex and interrelated context in which ‘people in uniforms’ commit violence, is consequently impeded. The story we recount here emerges from soldiers within the main perpetrator of violence in the DRC today: the Integrated Armed Forces. The soldiers' interview texts challenge the dominant representation of soldiers and combatants in the DRC. The soldiers made sense of the prevalence of violence (in which they too had participated) in several interrelated ways, none of which reflected any expression of ‘natural’ (if dormant) violent tendencies, hatred or vengefulness for the enemy.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- violence
- war
- militias
- Congo (DRC)
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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