Contribution short abstract:

The ethnography Former Guerrillas in Mozambique describes the trajectories of former Renamo combatants in Mozambique. The book focuses on how Renamo veterans have navigated unstable and sometimes dangerous social and political environments during and after the war.

Contribution long abstract:

This contribution focuses on the ethnography Former Guerrillas in Mozambique describes the trajectories of former Renamo combatants in Mozambique. The book focuses on how Renamo veterans have navigated unstable and sometimes dangerous social and political environments during and after the war. The book is based on fourteen months of fieldwork conducted over fifteen years after the war ended. It offers a critique of a motion of reintegration that assumes that the lives of former combatants are shaped by a break with society when joining the armed group and subsequently by a break with the past when demobilising. Former combatants' motivations, experiences, and interactions are not necessarily characterised by a rigid separation from their Renamo past, but rather comprise a mixture of ruptures and continuations of relationships and networks, including, families, the spiritual world, fellow former combatants, political parties, and the state.