Land, Labour and the Production of Affliction in Rural <scp>S</scp>outhern <scp>A</scp>frica

O'Laughlin, Bridget

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366.2012.00381.x

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“…Arguably, the structural adjustment programmes of the 1980s exacerbated the HIV crisis in sub‐Saharan African by crippling health systems, while the informalization of labour markets has served to reduce employment‐related health provision (O'Laughlin, ).…”

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Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015

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Santos³

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Development and Change

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The World Development Report 2015: Mind Society and Behaviour (World Bank, 2015), seeks a redesign of development policy on the basis of insights emerging from behavioural economics. This article offers a critical assessment of the Report across four dimensions. First, it situates the Report within the broader and evolving knowledge role of the Bank. Second, it locates the Report in the context of the evolution of economics as a discipline and how this informs the shaping of the Bank's development economics. Third, the Report is critically assessed for its narrow take on behavioural economics itself. Finally, the practical significance of the promotion of behavioural economics is considered through reference to its use in interventions in health in general and in response to HIV/AIDS in particular. It is argued that the Report suggests a dramatic and flawed reduction of what development is about, in that it forgoes any analysis of the structural problems facing developing countries and fails to propose major reforms to tackle these.

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“…Patterns of production, consumption and commercialization were reshaped by the extended and periodic absence of migrants who were no longer able to contribute their physical work to household activities, while remittances unleashed new forms of consumption and contributed to the deepening of commodity relations. In central Mozambique, the imposition of mussoco (poll taxes) and chibalo (colonial forced labour) both served to promote labour migration to neighbouring colonies (CEA 1983; Newitt 1995; O'Laughlin 2002; 2013; Newitt and Tornimbeni 2008). Circular migration was institutionalized when Mozambicans, through centralized recruitment and deferred payments, were prevented from settling down in their labour migration destinations.…”

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“…Later historiography of labour migration in Southern Africa, however, provided an alternative reading of the social history of labour migration centred on the life experiences, agency and resistance of labour migrants and their families. A vast literature now accounts for a variety of regional trajectories and discusses how migration transformed patterns of socialization, gender and family relations, social patterns of ill health, and identities and political mobilization (Crush 1995; O'Laughlin 2013; Delius 2014; Beinart 2014).…”

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“…Lubkemann describes men in central Mozambique who opted to maintain a meaningful trans-border presence by marrying and setting up ‘tuck shops’ in Mozambique and Zimbabwe (2009), and Potts studied the lives of migrants who settled down in their former labour destinations (2010). In other areas of Malawi and Mozambique, former trans-border migrants became wage labourers in large-scale domestic agriculture (Christiansen and Kydd 1983; Mkandawire 1985; O'Laughlin 2013). Different land and labour relations led to diverging outcomes.…”

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Migrant workers into contract farmers: processes of labour mobilization in colonial and contemporary Mozambique

Niño¹

2017

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As contract farming gains ground as a form of agricultural production in Southern Africa, there is growing interest in its effects on patterns of investment and production as well as in its potential to provide small farmers with access to export markets. However, the relation between contract farming and the region's long history of labour migration has largely escaped analysts and scholars working on Southern Africa. This article traces the changing livelihoods of those who experienced the demise of the migrant labour system and displacement during the civil war, and who now engage in contract farming in Angónia, a densely populated district in Tete Province, central Mozambique. In the decades since the end of the war, contract farming thrived among former migrants with access to land and few alternative sources of income and employment. If historical labour migration from Angónia involved attempts by employers to externalize the responsibility for social reproduction onto households, contract farming amounts to the internalization by households of the opportunities, risks and tensions involved in the production of high-value export commodities. By analysing farmers’ accounts of producing under contract and linking this to their households’ longer histories of labour mobilization, this article sheds light on people's experiences of working for wages, working on their own account and hiring workers, as households became the new sites of commodity production.

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“…We do not have space in this article to deal substantially with the important questions related to the political economy of migration and labour. For a profound engagement which we endorse, see in particular O'Laughlin (, , ).…”

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‘No Smoke without Fire’: Citizenship and Securing Economic Enclaves in Mozambique

Buur¹,

Sumich

2019

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This article explores the complicated interrelationship between economic enclaves, their associated security practices and the formation of national citizens in Mozambique. From the colonial era of company rule to the large‐scale foreign direct investments of the present day, investors have feared the destructive fires of rampant ‘mobs’, unruly workers and the potentially rebellious populace more generally. Signs of smoke point to trouble for investors, who can draw on complex security arrangements, including corporate social responsibility programmes, unions, private security companies, community leaders, state police and specialized state and rapid response units with the latest communications and transport technologies, to try to protect their investments from labour unrest and political demands. Through a variety of ethnographic materials on mega‐investments in the sugar industry over the last two decades, the article explores the centrality of complex security arrangements to strategies of governance that use such arrangements in an attempt to produce disciplined national subjects.

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Land, Labour and the Production of Affliction in Rural Southern Africa

Cited by 41 publications

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Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015

Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015

Migrant workers into contract farmers: processes of labour mobilization in colonial and contemporary Mozambique

‘No Smoke without Fire’: Citizenship and Securing Economic Enclaves in Mozambique

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