List of Acronyms 7
Acknowledgements 9
1. Introduction 11
1.1 The problem: the expansion of civil war into everyday life 13
1.2 The challenge: thinking the everyday 16
1.3 The conceptual framework: theories of the everyday 19
1.4 The case study: civil war in Angola (1976-2002) 21
1.5 Outline of the book 24
2. Theorising violent conflict: state of research 27
2.1 Micropolitical theories of violent conflict 28
2.2 Social theory approaches to violent conflict 32
2.3 Summary and implications for research 35
3. Normalities at war: a theoretical perspective on everyday
life in violent conflicts 39
3.1 Subject and life-world: theorising "normal" experiences 40
3.2 "Terror as usual": the transformation
of normality in violent conflict 57
4. Historical Background 69
4.1 Pre-colonial societies and weak colonial rule 71
4.2 The Estado Novo and the rise of nationalism 73
4.3 From anti-colonial struggle to independence 75
4.4 From independence to civil war 77
4.5 The Civil War 79
5. From the bush movement to the quasi-state (and back):
UNITA as an organisation 83
5.1 The militant anti-colonial guerrilla: 1966-76 85
5.2 The successful armed group: 1976-1989 96
5.3 Disintegration and decline: 1989-2002 104
6. Staging normality: UNITA as a life-world 109
6.1 "I have always been a soldier":
recruiting members 111
6.2. "Weapon, hoe and pen":
forming the UNITA combatant 113
6.3 Like from a different world:
the success of UNITA's social project 117
7. "We lived in an eternal war": life in the warscapes 121
7.1 Defending everyday life: adaptations to civil war violence 124
7.2 States of emergency: limits of normalisation 134
7.3 Orders of violence: accommodation to armed
groups' rule 137
8. Conclusion 143
Bibliography 149
Index 161