Power, conflict, and citizenship: Mozambique’s contemporary struggles

Macamo, Elísio

doi:10.1080/13621025.2017.1279796

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“…Maputo city, the capital, is by far the most well situated of autarquias in regard to both political and economic power. However, Frelimo's influence means that even in autarquias like Maputo, Frelimo has the ability to sway traditional authorities and municipal leaders at the most local levels, where the party's interest remains in voter mobilization, especially with the recent gains of new political parties like the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (Movimento Democrático de Moçambique) and growing clashes with old foes like Renamo since 2013 (Macamo, 2017). Critics note local level elites tend to support Frelimo out of concern that they may otherwise suffer financial and political disadvantages (Ferrant, 2018;Macamo, 2014).…”

Section: The Rootedness Of Control In Pre-and Post-independence Decentralizationmentioning

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Legacies of mistrust

Carolini

Hess

2021

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National authorities across Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa have implemented various forms of fiscal decentralization over the past three decades with equivocal results. The design of such reforms has long rested on theories based on the experiences of high-income countries’ efforts at increasing local autonomy, accountability, and basic service efficiencies. Critics of the global advocacy for fiscal decentralization, however, point to several challenges with its implementation across diverse political economies that differ significantly from those in high-income environments. Nonetheless, these critiques often obscure the impact that colonial regimes and their legacies have on current efforts to fiscally decentralize. In two post-colonial environments where fiscal decentralization projects have unrolled, namely Mozambique and Mexico, we show how colonial imprints remain critical to understanding efforts at fiscal decentralization. Our focus in these cases is on how race-based caste systems introduced under colonial administrations fed the development and evolution of dual governance systems across spaces and peoples that bred mistrust between residents, local authorities and central authorities. We argue that the conflicting rationales in evidence between stakeholders involved in fiscal decentralization projects today are rooted in the social mistrust and power struggles born from these colonial experiences. In conclusion, we contend that fiscal decentralization reforms must explicitly grapple with these spatialized and racialized legacies of mistrust and the diverse rationalities guiding stakeholders in both the design and evaluation of public policies meant to strengthen local autonomy, transparency, and efficiencies.

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Section: The Rootedness Of Control In Pre-and Post-independence Decentralizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legacies of mistrust

Carolini

Hess

2021

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“…Maputo city, the capital, is by far the most well situated of autarquias in regard to both political and economic power. However, Frelimo's influence means that even in autarquias like Maputo, Frelimo has the ability to sway traditional authorities and municipal leaders at the most local levels, where the party's interest remains in voter mobilization, especially with the recent gains of new political parties like the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (Movimento Democrático de Moçambique) and growing clashes with old foes like Renamo since 2013 (Macamo, 2017). Critics note local level elites tend to support Frelimo out of concern that they may otherwise suffer financial and political disadvantages (Ferrant, 2018;Macamo, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

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2021

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Along the concentrated efforts of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) to Open Access scholarly planning debates, the young academics network of AESOP continues to publish its international peer-reviewed open access e-journal, plaNext. plaNext provides prospective authors an opportunity to engage their ideas in international planning debates as well as make their research available to the wider planning audience. plaNext invites authors to submit original work that includes: empirical research; theoretical discussions; innovative methodologies; case studies; and, book reviews on selected books, textbooks, or specific topics dealing within planning.

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“…A civil war between Marxist FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique, currently the majority political party in Mozambique) and RENAMO (Resistência Nacional de Moçambique, the national opposition) lasted for 16 years. Recently ( 2015), they signed a second ceasefire agreement to stabilise the government (Macamo, 2017). The revolutionary movements and power elites (Frelimo and Renamo) continue on a path of "eschatological nationalism" (struggle politics) within an authoritarian political culture that minimises the effect of civil society to access their constitutionally enshrined (human) rights (Macamo, 2017, p. 199).…”

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Reflections on human rights education from the orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) sector in Mozambique

Burnett

2020

Cogent Social Sciences

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Power, conflict, and citizenship: Mozambique’s contemporary struggles

Cited by 25 publications

References 12 publications

Legacies of mistrust

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Reflections on human rights education from the orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) sector in Mozambique

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