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Based on an analysis of the rebel movements established in Western Equatoria since the outbreak of the South Sudanese civil war, this article explores the role played by territorial integration in the trajectories of these armed groups. This article demonstrates how this territorial integration has resulted in a specific form of embeddedness of these armed groups during the course of the war, with the construction, reproduction and mobilisation of particular indigenous resources that are central to the organisation and survival of the rebel movements. This article also shows how this embeddedness encourages the reproduction of the pre-existing social order in both their organisation and the territories they control.