Xiconhoca, o inimigo: Narrativas de violência sobre a construção da nação em Moçambique

Meneses, Maria Paula

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“…These dynamics were marked by rifts, conflicts and violence, which became more acute particularly in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the process of building the institutions was structured on the postcolonial period (Forquilha 2017). In effect, the internal crisis within FRELIMO 1 during the anticolonial struggles contributed significantly to the reinforcement of the rhetoric exalting national unity to the detriment of ethnic differences, very often regarded as tribalism or regionalism and therefore incompatible with the political project based on mentalities and social relations in the context of building a 'new Man' and a new society (Meneses 2015;Cahen 1987;Brito 1991).…”

Section: The Historical Trajectory Of the Construction Of The Postcolmentioning

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Decentralization reforms in Mozambique: The role of institutions in the definition of results

Forquilha¹

2020

WIDER Working Paper

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With the introduction of the economic reforms in the late 1980s, the opening up of the political arena and the end of the civil war in the early 1990s, the decentralization process began in Mozambique. Different research developed in recent years shows that, as is the case in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the impact of the decentralization reforms on the promotion of local development and the strengthening of democracy in Mozambique is modest. How can this modest impact be explained? Based on three important reforms in the decentralization process in Mozambique, namely the ‘7 million’, municipalization and decentralized provincial governance, this article seeks to answer this question by analysing how different aspects of the institutions affect the results of the reforms. The main argument in the article underlines the idea according to which the results of the decentralization reforms in Mozambique are constrained by the nature and by the operation mechanisms of the political system. Of these institutional factors/constraints, state capacity and independence from private interests, particularly political groups, stand out in the three reforms analysed throughout this article. In this context, the reforms develop according to group interests, particularly party political interests, which capture the state and use the reforms as a mechanism for maintaining and bolstering political power. In this sense, rather than being a means of improving the provision of public services and strengthening democracy, decentralization works more as an instrument for reinforcing state control and pandering to the elite. This is probably the biggest challenge decentralization is facing in Mozambique, therefore making it a fundamental issue to be taken into account in any reform in this area, within the context of strengthening democracy and promoting local development.

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Section: The Historical Trajectory Of the Construction Of The Postcolmentioning

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Decentralization reforms in Mozambique: The role of institutions in the definition of results

Forquilha¹

2020

WIDER Working Paper

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“…Furthermore, ‘the APE needs to study the FRELIMO party line very carefully’ (República Popular de Moçambique 1977: 17). Public health goals, party structures and ideological purity were therefore combined in the making of a narrowly defined political community in ways that nuance and challenge critical accounts of global health as eroding public services (see also Meneses 2015).…”

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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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“…Mas mais do que isso, é que estas narrativas tendem a ser construídas e contadas como se a história da FRELIMO fosse a história de Moçambique (Bragança e Depelchin, 1986). Aspetos estes que mostram o modo como as narrativas -que por vezes alimentam a história de Moçambique -tendem a ser excludentes desde o período da luta de libertação nacional (Borges Coelho, 2013;Souto, 2013;Machava, 2015;Meneses, 2015Meneses, , 2018. 4 E é neste âmbito que se percebe, mais uma vez, o porquê da instrumentalização -por parte de Guebuza -de figuras como Eduardo Mondlane, fundador e primeiro presidente da FRELIMO; Samora Machel, fundador e segundo presidente da FRELIMO bem como o primeiro Presidente de Moçambique independente; Romão Farinha e Luís Mara, ambos destacados membros da FRELIMO.…”

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Heróis da luta de libertação nacional e a ideia de nação nos discursos do Presidente da República de Moçambique Armando Guebuza*

Posse¹

2020

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Xiconhoca, o inimigo: Narrativas de violência sobre a construção da nação em Moçambique

Cited by 28 publications

References 20 publications

Decentralization reforms in Mozambique: The role of institutions in the definition of results

Decentralization reforms in Mozambique: The role of institutions in the definition of results

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

Heróis da luta de libertação nacional e a ideia de nação nos discursos do Presidente da República de Moçambique Armando Guebuza*

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