Individualization and the ethopolitics of conflict in rural Angola

In this article, my goal is to contribute to the debate about the relation between sociality and individualization. It is under this perspective that I discuss the subject of conflict as social relationing. Concretely, I explore how everyday experiences of conflict between 'individuals' in an Angolan rural village can neutralize contemporary threats of asocialization between those same individuals and, in turn, promote commonality. I refer to this affective agency in present-day rural Angola as the ethopolitics of conflict. Although I approach the two subjects, this article is not specifically about individualization or conflict. Rather, it is about the social terrain where the two intersect.