Roadblock Politics — Peer Schouten
In Pursuit of Development
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The Road Block Operator Community Militia
The relationship between rebel groups and commercial actors is also a way of legitimizing these rebel groups within these territories. It's not just about extracting resources, but also deriving legitimacy that these groups derived by allowing commercial actors to go about their business activity. The people have had, their experience with the state has mostly been of agents by the wayside, texing their daily business. So this whole idea of blocking the road and controlling passage, control over the terms of passage,. is really a kind of key vactor of how people imagine political power, an public authority.
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