Rural radicalism in the capital city: the impact of histories of inequitable safety on patterns of violence

Pendle, Naomi and Maror, Deng (2024) Rural radicalism in the capital city: the impact of histories of inequitable safety on patterns of violence. African Studies Review, 67 (1). 86 - 106. ISSN 0002-0206

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Abstract

Around the world, armed conflict is increasingly occurring in capital cities and governments are relying on pro-government, rurally recruited, militia to suppress anti-government political violence. Pendle and Maror draw lessons from South Sudan where recruits from rural areas were brought to Juba to help defend the government. Drawing on ethnographic observations and qualitative interviews with combatants, this article uses “rural radicalism” to argue that patterns of violence by these rurally recruited forces were shaped by histories of rural violence over previous decades and can be read to include a political objective that challenges the inequities in safety and security between rural areas and the capital city.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2024 08:45
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 04:31
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/125762

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