Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22261-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

This book brings together new research on the subject of nations and nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It explores the history and politics of diverse nationalist discourses and ideologies, and it revisits the formation and contemporary developments of national imagined communities in Portuguese-speaking Africa. It does so by drawing on several disciplines and by exploring themes as diverse as Frelimo’s liberation literature, UNITA’s moral economy and the disaggregation of Guinea-Bissau. The authors provide novel insights in the hope of contributing to the academic and public debate on the subject, not least in those countries where, in the face of liberalisation, ruling parties and their opponents have been arguing intensively over, and have sometime struggled to re-invent, a sense of national community. Through their engagement with the subject, authors also make a contribution to the general discussion of the concepts of nations and nationalism.

Zielgruppe

Academics, students and all those interested in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau as well as students and instructors of Comparative Politics, Nationalism Studies, African Studies and the History of Portuguese-speaking Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morier-Genoud, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations.vii
List of Contributors. ix

Introduction. Thinking about Nationalisms & Nations in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique.xiii
Eric Morier-Genoud

I Anticolonialism & Nationalism: Deconstructing Synonymy, Investigating Historical Processes.
Notes on the Heterogeneity of Former African Colonial Portuguese Areas. 1
Michel Cahen

II Virtual Nations and Failed States: Making Sense of the Labyrinth. 31
Philip J. Havik

III The Social Origins of Good and Bad Governance: Re-interpreting the 1968 Schism in Frelimo. 79
Georgi Derluguian

IV Writing a Nation or Writing a Culture? Frelimo and Nationalism During the Mozambican Liberation War.103
Maria-Benedita Basto

V ‘An Imaginary Nation’. Nationalism, Ideology & the Mozambican National Elite.127
Jason Sumich

VI UNITA and the Moral Economy of Exclusion in Angola, 1966–1977.149
Didier Péclard

VII Angola’s Euro-African Nationalism: The United Angolan Front.177
Fernando Tavares Pimenta

Changing Nationalisms: From War to Peace in Angola.199
Justin Pearce

IX Is ‘Nationalism’ a Feature of Angola’s Cultural Identity?.217
David Birmingham

X Nationalisms, Nations and States: Concluding Reflections.231
Gavin Williams

Thematic Bibliography.251
Index.265

Über Autor(innen)

Morier-Genoud, Eric
Eric Morier-Genoud, Ph.D. (2006) in Historical Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton, is Lecturer in African History at Queen's University Belfast. He has published extensively on the history, religion and politics of Mozambique and South Africa.