Mozambique on the Move

Challenges and Reflections
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37688-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies

Being a first of its kind, this volume comprises a multi-disciplinary exploration of Mozambique’s contemporary and historical dynamics, bringing together scholars from across the globe. Focusing on the country’s vibrant cultural, political, economic and social world – including the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial era – the book argues that Mozambique is a country still emergent, still unfolding, still on the move.

Drawing on the disciplines of history, literature studies, anthropology, political science, economy and art history, the book serves not only as a generous introduction to Mozambique but also as a case study of a southern African country.


Contributors are: Signe Arnfred, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, José Luís Cabaço, Ana Bénard da Costa, Anna Maria Gentili, Ana Margarida Fonseca,
Randi Kaarhus, Sheila Pereira Khan, Maria Paula Meneses, Lia Quartapelle, Amy Schwartzott, Leonor Simas-Almeida, Anne Sletsjøe, Sandra Sousa, Linda van de Kamp.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pereira Khan, Sheila

Meneses, Maria Paula

Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Sheila Pereira Khan, Maria Paula Meneses and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

List of Contributors

Introduction – Situating Mozambican Histories, Epistemologies, and Potentialities

Maria Paula Meneses, Sheila Pereira Khan and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

1 ‘No passado o futuro era melhor?’: Mozambique’s Democracy in Question

Anna Maria Gentili

2 Mirrors and Contrasts: Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in Manica, Mozambique

Randi Kaarhus

3 From Celebrating Female Emancipation to Emplacing Emperor Ngungunyane: Remoulding the Past in Mozambican National Narratology

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

4 Urban Transformation, Family Strategies and Home Space Creation in the City of Maputo

Ana Bérnard da Costa

5 A Possible Triangle: Employment, Aid, and Mineral Wealth

Lia Quartapelle

6 (Re)configurations of Identity: Memory and Creation in the Narrative of Mia Couto

Ana Margarida Fonseca

7 Dialogues with the Past and with the Future: Ualalapi and Jesusalém

Anne Sletsjøe

8 Racial, Cultural and Emotional Crossing Paths: Mia Couto’s Hopeful Pessimism in Terra Sonâmbula andO Outro Pé da Sereia

Leonor Simas-Almeida and Sandra Sousa

9 Mozambican Capulanas: Tracing Histories and Memories

Signe Arnfred and Maria Paula Meneses

10 Healing the Pain of War through Art: Mozambique’s Grassroots Approach to Post-Conflict Resolution – Transformação de Armas em Enxadas

Amy Schwartzott

11 ‘Taking Ownership’: The Brazilian Pentecostal Project to Change Mozambique

Linda van de Kamp

12 Singing Struggles, Affirming Politics: Mozambique’s Revolutionary Songs as Other Ways of Being (in) History

Maria Paula Meneses

13 Scientific Research and Epistemological Violence

José Luis Cabaço

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sheila Pereira Khan, Ph.D. (2004), Warwick University, is a Postdoc Researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre, Uminho University. She has published several articles and books on Mozambican immigration, Portuguese postcolonialism, life and identity narratives, epistemologies, memory, post-memory and authorities of memory.


Maria Paula Meneses, Ph.D. (1999), Rutgers University, is a Mozambican scholar currently working at the Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra University. She has published multiple works resulting from research projects on the social and historical context of modern Mozambique.

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Ph.D. (2010), University of Bergen, is Professor of Social Anthropology at that university. He has published extensively on state formation, egalitarianism, violence, politics and socio-cultural processes in Mozambique.