Soldiers at peace : veterans and society after the civil war in Mozambique / Jessica Schafer.

Author/creator Schafer, Jessica
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Descriptionx, 244 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-233) and index.
LCCN 2006101524
ISBN1403975035 (alk. paper)
ISBN9781403975034 (alk. paper)

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