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Accepted Paper:
Networks of Support and Associative life in eastern DR Congo
Solange Fontana
(University of Oxford)
Paper short abstract:
The paper presents some of the functions, interactions and outcomes of associative life and networks of support used by people in Masisi and considers their implication for key social processes, including violence itself.
Paper long abstract:
The paper situates itself within a wider research project on institutions, networks and social processes in areas of mass violence and chronic insecurity.
Using a case study of Masisi, a volatile territory in eastern DR Congo, the wider research explores how people experience and negotiate daily life in such contexts and asks how society and social structures reciprocally affect levels, patterns and expression of violence.
Through the entry point of livelihood-based associations and self-help groups, the paper presents some of the functions, interactions and outcomes of associative life in Masisi and considers their implication for key social processes, including violence itself.
Panel
P31
Searching for the everyday normal: continuities, discontinuities and transformation in crises
Session 1