Egalitarian Lives and Violence

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2022.660306

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

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Abstract

Since independence in 1975, Mozambique has experimented with society-state relations, including an Afro-socialist revolutionary transformation followed by a multi-party democracy with nominal state functions, such as policing. Building on fieldwork, this article analyzes the genealogy and practices of community policing, arguing that while its emergence reflects a global transformation of state apparatuses reliant on securitization, this transition is still in progress. Community policing practices interconnect with both (petty and organized) crime and nominally past experiments in revolutionary citizenship in socialist Mozambique, including the promises of egalitarian life that linger on in political cosmology and memory. Mozambican community policing thus exhibits the core characteristics of a fluid and ‘predatory-protective’ security assemblage, while simultaneously harboring the potential for instantiating forms of egalitarian life beyond hierarchical state ordering.

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平等主义生活与暴力

自1975年独立以来，莫桑比克一直在尝试社会-国家关系，包括非洲社会主义革命转型，随后是多党民主，名义上具有国家职能，如警务。在实地调查的基础上，本文分析了社区治安的谱系和实践，认为虽然它的出现反映了依赖证券化的国家机器的全球转型，但这种转型仍在进行中。社区警务实践与社会主义莫桑比克革命公民的名义上的过去的实验，包括在政治宇宙论和记忆中挥之不去的平等生活的承诺，(轻微的和有组织的)犯罪相互联系。因此，莫桑比克的社区治安表现出流动性和“掠夺性保护”安全组合的核心特征，同时也具有超越等级国家秩序的平等主义生活形式的实例化潜力。

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Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.