Conclusion.: Uncapturability, Dynamics, and Power

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Conclusion.: Uncapturability, Dynamics, and Power
Abstract
Ethnography harbors the power of critique—political, social, and theoretical. Ultimately a capacity to destabilize, this orientation also applies when writing an account of the violence inherent to processes of state formation in Mozambique. While such critical potential may be realized in a number of ways, here I have privileged perspectives forged on the margins of the centers of power, supplemented by historical sources. But there is more to it than this: by privileging a decentering of institution-based notions of the state informed by multiple readings of Deleuze, a wholly different picture of what a state is—and might be
Book Title
Violent Becomings
Series
State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
Volume
4
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Date
2016
Pages
263-270
ISBN
978-1-78533-236-4
Short Title
Conclusion.
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02/11/2021, 22:39
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Citation
Bertelsen, B. E. (2016). Conclusion.: Uncapturability, Dynamics, and Power. In Violent Becomings (Vol. 4, pp. 263–270). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv8bt1ff.19