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The Good, the Bad, and the Awkward: The Construction of War Veterans in Postindependence Mozambique
Wiegink, N.
citizenship
former combatants
memory politics
Mozambique
reintegration of former combatants
war veterans
Taverne
This article traces the emergence of three categories of war veterans in postindependence Mozambique: former fighters of the liberation war against the Portuguese colonial administration, the former soldiers of the Mozambican Armed Forces, and former Renamo combatants who both fought in the postindependence war. The article follows the emergence, negotiation, contestation, and transformations of these categories through memory politics, bureaucratic practices of inclusion and exclusion, and veterans’ collective political practices “from below.” By showing how some war veterans are come to be regarded as “worthy” of privileged state resources and others as enemies of the state, while again others are in an in-between position, the article shows how war veterans come to occupy specific citizenship positions and that these positions are contingent and changeable over time.
Leerstoel Robben
Sovereignty and Social Contestation
2019
Article
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Conflict and Society: Advances in Research 5(1), 150-167 (2019)
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