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Title
"We live in war": An Ambivalent Everyday in eastern DRC |
Full text
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xt5r74j |
Date
2014 |
Author(s)
Niehuus, Rachel Marie |
Abstract
In this dissertation, I argue that in eastern Congo, war is not lived as rupture, as a project that, once accomplished, will end. Instead, violence is understood to be an enduring force that is deeply imbricated in social life and political and economic attachment. It follows then that, in the context of a violent history and an uncertain present, life is not that which comes into being after war, when the cessation of spectacular violence allows the resumption of everyday practices, the recommencement of ordinary routines. Instead, where violence is inescapably ordinary, war is experienced as an injurious, constitutive, and ambivalent force. The lives it shapes are neither determined by nor devoid of mourning, but, as elsewhere in the world, characterized by pleasure and pain, intimacy and fear, bitterness and beauty. An ethnographic exploration of a particular experience of war in North Kivu, DRC, this dissertation is an account of these lives. |
Subject(s)
Cultural anthropology; African studies; Military studies; ambivalence; Democratic Republic of Congo; love; war |
Coverage
266 |
Language
en |
Publisher
eScholarship, University of California |
Relation
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xt5r74j |
Type of publication
dissertation |
Format
application/pdf |
Source
Niehuus, Rachel Marie. (2014). "We live in war": An Ambivalent Everyday in eastern DRC. UC San Francisco: Medical Anthropology. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xt5r74j |
Rights
public |
Identifier
qt6xt5r74j |
Repository
Berkeley - University of California
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