Violent Becomings

<ul> <li> It is theoretically original in its insistence on radical reading of state formation as related to violence and irreducible to the formal state apparatus.</li> <li> It is a long-term study of transformations - building on fieldwork from 1998 onwards - which surpasses a number of other relevant studies from Mozambique (Obarrio West Kyed for instance).</li> <li> It systematically construes contemporary processes and historical trajectories from the margins and is consistent in not adapting a view from the country's centre Maputo -- such a Maputo-view informing the majority of studies in and on Mozambique.</li></ul>