“Our Future Is Already in Jeopardy”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18998607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Catherina Wilson Janssens (Leiden University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 214-230 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conflict and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2164-4543 • E-ISSN: 2164-4551 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/arcs.2018.040116 |
| OpenAlex | W2898361020 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
Duress results from the internalization of violence. Through the narratives of two Central African Republic student refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this article presents the multiple layers of violence they experience. After introducing violence, the article turns to its different layers by making use of the palimpsest metaphor. Three layers of violence interrelate and overlap: the first relates to chronic crisis in the Central African Republic; the second layer deals with the context of the urban jungle (Kinshasa); and the third layer is linked to the humanitarian agencies that fail to provide for urban refugees. The experience of these three layers adds up to duress. Duress colors the students’ agency and the decisions they make along their life paths
Art · Criminology · Democracy · Epistemology · Jungle · Metaphor · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · The Republic · History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · North African History and Literature · Peacebuilding and International Security
State of Rebellion
Death Without Weeping
On Being Shege in Kinshasa
Violence in War and Peace
Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration
Fear in Bongoland
Making Sense of the Central African Republic
Reinventing Order in the Congo
Recounting Migration
Symbolic bordering
Crisis as opportunity
I Find Myself as Someone Who is in the Forest
L'aventurier, une figure de la migration africaine
Living by the Gun In Chad
Darkness before Daybreak
Violence, popular punishment, and war in the Central African Republic
Rébellion et limites de la consolidation de la paix en République centrafricaine
Purity and Exile
Sleep Occupies No Space
An Anthropology of Structural Violence
The Shock of the New
Crisis and Chronicity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |