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dc.contributor.authorBertelsen, Bjørn Engeeng
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-15T12:23:21Z
dc.date.available2014-12-15T12:23:21Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-25eng
dc.identifier.issn0014-1844
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/8933
dc.description.abstractThis article analyses the large-scale popular urban uprisings that shook Mozambican cities on 1 and 2 September 2010, following the government’s announcement of successive rises in the price of public transport fares and basic commodities. Using ethnographic material from the city of Chimoio and the capital Maputo, the following work highlights the organisational character of the ‘strikes’ (greves), as the popular uprisings were called, and explores them as a new form of organising political discontent. Comparing them to other historical and contemporary popular uprisings, this article argues that the strikes violently and rhizomically generated ephemeral and egalitarian forms of political authority and order that simultaneously confronted, replicated and undercut the aspects of Mozambican statehood. Deploying Durkheim’s notion of effervescence, the work further argues that the creative fervour, multisemic aspects and festive character of the popular uprisings need to be recognised; thus, this analysis challenges the reductive labelling of these events as ‘riots’ or ‘food riots’.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherRoutledgeeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEthnos: Journal of Anthropologyen_US
dc.rightsAttribution CC BYeng
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0eng
dc.subjectEffervescenceeng
dc.subjectMozambiqueeng
dc.subjectpopular uprisingeng
dc.subjectrhizomeeng
dc.subjectsovereigntyeng
dc.titleEffervescence and Ephemerality: Popular Urban Uprisings in Mozambiqueeng
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.date.updated2014-12-15T12:15:49Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2014 The Author(s)en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2014.929596
dc.identifier.cristin1149250


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