Violence and political culture in Mozambique

Macamo, Elísio

doi:10.1080/02533952.2016.1163779

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“…For a critical re-evaluation of Renamo violence, see Schafer (2007). On the role of violence in Frelimo state formation and during war, see Macamo (2016) and Bertelsen (2016). 6.…”

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Auxiliary Armed Forces and Innovations in Security Governance in Mozambique’s Civil War

Jentzsch

2017

Civil Wars

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Who rules during the civil war? This article argues that the concept of armed group governance must be expanded to include auxiliary armed forces linked to rebels or the government. Comparing the organization of rebel and government auxiliaries, the article demonstrates that security governance during war is never static, but evolves over time. Evidence from the civil war in Mozambique (1976Mozambique ( -1992 shows that the auxiliary's origin shapes its initial level of autonomy. Second, auxiliary contribution to battlefield success of one side may induce innovations adopted by auxiliaries on the other. Both have distinct consequences for the nature of governance.

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“…For a critical re-evaluation of Renamo violence, see Schafer (2007). On the role of violence in Frelimo state formation and during war, see Macamo (2016) and Bertelsen (2016). 6.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This shows that Renamo outsourced much of the violence to auxiliaries and considered them to fulfil a distinct function within their system of governance. For Frelimo, the auxiliaries complemented their efforts, but did not replace repressive functions of the state (Bertelsen 2016, Macamo 2016.…”

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Auxiliary Armed Forces and Innovations in Security Governance in Mozambique’s Civil War

Jentzsch

2017

Civil Wars

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“…Typical remarks included ‘How can we be free when you can't walk out of your house at night without a bandit grabbing you by the neck?’ and ‘What independence is this when you have to pay a tax on a bicycle?’ 29 At the same time, accusations of regional discrimination demonstrate the hollowness of Frelimo's claims to lead an undivided nation. What is more, when understood in the light of a longer history of divided nationalism, in which the principle of a united Frelimo was betrayed by a southern elite, narratives about discrimination against central Mozambique are useful fodder for a Renamo whose own foundational myths invoke a strand of nationalism that originated in the centre of the country and whose protagonists were cast aside by Frelimo (Macamo 2015).…”

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History, legitimacy, and Renamo's return to arms in central Mozambique

Pearce¹

2020

Africa

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Twenty years after the Mozambican war ended, a return to arms from 2013 by the opposition movement Renamo served to revitalize support for the party in the 2014 election, and put pressure on the Frelimo government to consider demands for constitutional change. Building on existing research on post-war politics and on recent economic change, this article addresses the question of how Renamo obtained civilians’ approval for renewed armed action in the south of Sofala province, the region where conflict broke out in 2013. I argue that popular legitimacy for Renamo's challenge to the state is constituted in a narrative about Renamo that is congruent both with present-day grievances against the state and with understandings of local history dating to the anticolonial struggle that challenge the nationalist history on which Frelimo hegemony rests. Renamo has adapted this narrative in such a way as to claim a historic role for itself in defending the interests of central and northern Mozambique and in struggling for an inclusive and democratic state. In this way, Renamo has gained support for its renewed armed actions, not only among those politicized by Renamo in the earlier war but more broadly among civilians in the region.

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“…Indeed, while the APE programme's emphasis on robust training for CHWs offered an inspiring public health strategy, it also entailed modes of political and ideological intrusion that were complex, contentious and often violent (Macamo 2016). This was particularly true in Morrumbala.…”

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“…Moreover, clinical dreams in Mozambique have been ambivalent and politically ambiguous. Often unrealized, they have also been inseparable from experiences of violence and exclusion that accompanied them (Buur 2010; Macamo 2016). At the same time, clinical visions have never monopolized health imaginaries.…”

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Global health's durable dreams: ethnography, ‘community health workers’ and health without health infrastructure

McKay¹

2020

Africa

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Tracing the persistence of community health workers (CHWs) as a key category in both global health policy and anthropological representation, this article asks how enduring scholarly investments in CHWs can reveal changing political stakes for both health work and ethnographic research. Amid renewed calls for a focus on health systems and universal health coverage, the article suggests that the durability of attention to CHWs is instructive. It simultaneously points to the imbrication of health with political and social relations and clinical and technological infrastructures as well as to how ethnographic investments in health systems can sometimes obscure the ambivalent politics of health. Drawing on fieldwork with CHWs, NGO staff and public health officials, and on public health literature on CHWs, it argues for greater attention to the political ambivalence of health labour. It suggests that the experiences of health workers themselves can serve as analytical examples in this regard, pointing to analyses that begin not with normative notions of health systems or the conceptual boundaries of global health ‘projects’ but with a focus on the contested relations through which health labour is realized over time. Such attention can also indicate possibilities for health beyond dreams of projects, clinics or health systems.

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Violence and political culture in Mozambique

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Auxiliary Armed Forces and Innovations in Security Governance in Mozambique’s Civil War

Auxiliary Armed Forces and Innovations in Security Governance in Mozambique’s Civil War

History, legitimacy, and Renamo's return to arms in central Mozambique

Global health's durable dreams: ethnography, ‘community health workers’ and health without health infrastructure

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