Chapter OneThe fate of post colonial Mozambique 4.4. Documentary research sites 4.5. Statistics and surveys 5. Analysing the existing literature 6. Oral information 6.1. Interviews 6.2. Life histories or life passages 6.3. The informants 6.4. Tape recorders and transcriptions 6.5. Oral testimonies and manipulation by the informant 6.6. Discussions with informants 7. Patterns of research 8. The complementarity of different information sources 9. Selection of field work sites 10. Ego-history
ConclusionsChapter Three
An iconoclastic history of post-colonialMozambique: A review of the literature 35 1. Introduction 2. The outside influence approach 2.1. Portuguese colonialism 2.2. FRELIMO 2.3. The FRELIMO leadership 2.4. The liberation war 2.5. Post-liberation 2.6. Foreign influences 3. The internal contradictions 4. The building blocks of nationalist discourse Chapter Four Reformulating development policies 69 1. Introduction 2. Concepts, typologies, theories, strategies and paradigms 2.1. The concept of development 2.2. Development strategies 2.3. Mozambican eclecticism and development theory 3. Evolution of development strategies in post-colonial Mozambique 3.1. The liberated areas strategy (1965/1974) 3.2. Killing the crocodile while it is small (1974/1978) 3.3. The state managing barber shops (1978-1984) 3.4. The state out of the market place (1984-1986) 3.5. The free market strategies (1986-1990) 4. Contradictions and changes in development policies Contents Chapter Five Challenges and challengers to post-colonial development 95 1. Introduction 2. Conceptualising the counter revolution in Mozambique 2.1. The type of warfare 2.2. The illegitimacy of the organisation 2.3. International relations 2.4. Social processes 2.5. Sanctions 3. Theories and déstabilisation 4. RENAMO 4.1. The extent of RENAMO's warfronts 4.2. Myths of creation and evolution 4.3. A counter-revolutionary front 4.4. Ethnicity and the errors of the revolution 4.5. RENAMO and the Mozambican class structure 4.6. RENAMO's violence: Creating water for the fish 4.7. RENAMO's genesis: abusive generalisations 5. Conclusions: punishing the post colonial holders of state power Chapter Six Aid as a tool for intervention 121 Chapter Seven Changara: war, hunger, aid and deveJopment 157 Chapter Eleven The vicious spiral of social breakdown and transformation 285 vn A PhD thesis is a piece of work which ends up being more than just one piece. In my case the research project was intended to be a continuation of work in progress, and ended up as a central part of my life during a long period. This is not to say that all my life gravitated around it: on the contrary, it became part of my life and it was good that it happened that way. My PhD program was part of a very interesting period. I changed home twice -from Maputo to Gothenburg and back -and lived part of the time in a train and a ferryboat between Roskilde and Gothenburg. Annual field work trips to Mozambique were combined with consultancies that supplemented our family income. After returning to Maputo,...