Rebel rule
A governmentality perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6027477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kasper Hoffmann (0000-0001-5654-3870, Ghent University), Judith Verweijen (0000-0002-4204-1172, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 471 |
| Pages | 352-374 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9909 • E-ISSN: 1468-2621 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/afraf/ady039 |
| OpenAlex | W2892115758 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 16 |
Much of the recent literature on rebel governance and violent political orders works with 'centred' and instrumental understandings of power. In this view, power is seen as exercised over subjects, and as situated in rebel rulers, governance institutions, or ruling networks. Drawing on the study of the armed groups known as 'Mai-Mai' in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, this article instead adopts a governmentality perspective on rebel governance. It demonstrates how Mai-Mai groups rule not only through direct imposition but also, more subtly, by shaping people's subjectivities and self-conduct. We identify four clusters of techniques of Mai-Mai rule that relate respectively to ethnicity and custom; spirituality; 'stateness'; and patronage and protection. We argue that a governmentality perspective, with its focus on rationalities and practices of power, offers a fine-grained understanding of rebel rule that moves beyond common binaries such as coercion versus freedom. By showing its relevance for the analysis of rebel rule in the eastern Congo, our findings further strengthen the case for applying a governmentality perspective to non-Western political orders.
Epistemology · Governmentality · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Philosophy
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Trust, quality, and the network collection experience
Reprint of
Perspectives on the rebel social contract
Roadblock governance and rebel governmentality
Courses au pouvoir
The Supply and Demand of Rebel Governance
Navigating Social Spaces
Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’
Is collaboration possible between the small-scale and large-scale mining sectors? Evidence from ‘Conflict-Free Mining’ in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Sports Organisations’ Responses to Social Media Abuse Against Professional Sportswomen in UK Team Sports
Territory, sovereignty and rebel oil governance in the Arab uprisings
Humanitarian Shapeshifting
Producing democracy in armed violence settings
Rebel Governance
Feminist Perspectives on Rebel Governance and Civil Wars
Rebel Governance Structures and Violence in Apartheid South Africa
Understanding Governance by Insurgent Non-State Actors
The Legacies of Defeat
Rejoinder to Egor Lazarev’s Review of
The Origins and Legacies of Unpredictability in Rebel-Incumbent Rule
Social Control in Civil Wars
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism
Rebel network theory
Reluctant representatives of the state
Nonconventional Logistics
Paths of authority, roads of resistance
The making of ethnic territories
Serving the state at all costs? Being a civil servant in wartime South Sudan
Reconciling Rebel Rule
Bootstrapping sovereignty
Wartime burial from below
Defending Society, Building the Nation
Rebel governance, rebel legitimacy, and external intervention
Politicising the rebel governance paradigm. Critical appraisal and expansion of a research agenda
Blunt' biopolitical rebel rule
The Art Of Arms (Not) Being Governed
Roadblock politics in Central Africa
Raids and Routes
Studying insecurity from relative safety - Dealing with methodological blind spots
A sovereign grant and a franchised state
Civilian Agency and Service Provision Under Rebel Rule
Revisiting colonial legacies in knowledge production on customary authority in Central and East Africa
Radical Autochthony? Proprietary Political Discourse Among Elites and Peasants in the Anti-Balaka Armed Movement in the Central African Republic
Living between Two Lions’
Public Service Provision in a Failed State
Sons of Which Soil? The Language and Politics of Autochthony in Eastern D.R. Congo
The limits of governmentality
The volatility of a half-cooked bouillabaisse
Government-by-exception
Bringing History Back In
States of Imagination
Political power beyond the State
Engaging Foucault
Is It Witchcraft? Is It Satan? It Is a Miracle.' Mai-Mai Soldiers and Christian Concepts of Evil in North-East Congo
Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire
Poor Man, Rich Man, Big-man, Chief
From Autochthony to Violence? Discursive and Coercive Social Practices of the Mai-Mai in Fizi, Eastern DR Congo
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |