Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics
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چکیده
Abstract Rebel groups govern significant parts of territory worldwide. They often deliver crucial public goods and services to populations under their control. Scholarship on rebel governance commonly explains this with the need for armed generate local international legitimacy. We argue that understanding as an instrumental means power is insufficient. Instead, we propose a novel conceptualization competing biopolitics. Tracing biopolitical technologies rule reveals productive functions war-time social orders molding into imagined communities in direct opposition existing nation state. develop perspective by mobilizing Foucault's work conjunction Chatterjee's postcolonial governmentality contexts state- nation-formation, empirical research Pat Jasan northern Myanmar. Linked Kachin rebellion, movement has fought against devastating narcotics crisis interventions form body amidst protracted ethnonational conflict. Beyond shedding light one world's longest running but least-researched civil wars, offers three distinct contributions studies: exploring non-state actors health, theorizing sociological underpinnings governance, developing concept biopolitics beyond
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Studies Quarterly
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0020-8833', '1468-2478']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac007