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(Re-)Emergent Orders: Understanding the Negotiation(s) of Rebel Governance
The concept of order is often neglected in the study of conflict â seemingly such a âdisorderingâ process. With the recent increase in the examination of rebel governance however, bringing order back into our understanding of rebel and insurgent groups has much to offer in exploring the everyday politics which connect authorities, rebel movements and the population itself, in a complex mass of intersubjective and power-based interactions and negotiations. Rebels both shape and are shaped by existing forms of order in complex and ongoing ways. This article explores how varying elements interact in the negotiation, framing and enforcement of order and develops an original analytical framework to examine the perpetual negotiations of rebel movements in their attempts to cement their control
When Old Names Refuse to Go: Myths, Power, and Subversion in NoViolet Bulawayoâs We Need New Names
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