Around the world, armed conflict is increasingly occurring in capital cities and governments are relying on pro-government, rurally recruited, militia to suppress anti-government political violence. Pendle and Maror draw lessons from South Sudan where recruits from rural areas were brought to Juba to help defend the government. Drawing on ethnographic observations and qualitative interviews with combatants, this article uses “rural radicalism” to argue that patterns of violence by these rurally recruited forces were shaped by histories of rural violence over previous decades and can be read to include a political objective that challenges the inequities in safety and security between rural areas and the capital city.

在世界各地，武装冲突越来越多地发生在首都城市，各国政府依靠亲政府、农村招募的民兵来镇压反政府政治暴力。彭德尔和马罗尔从南苏丹吸取了教训，南苏丹从农村地区招募的新兵被带到朱巴帮助保卫政府。本文利用人种学观察和对战斗人员的定性访谈，使用“农村激进主义”来论证这些从农村招募的部队的暴力模式是由过去几十年的农村暴力历史塑造的，并且可以解读为包括挑战农村暴力的政治目标。农村地区与首都城市之间的安全保障不平等。