Sure road? : nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique

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Sure road? : nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique

edited by Eric Morier-Genoud

(African social studies series, v. 28)

Brill, 2012

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Bibliography: p. [251]-264

Includes index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction : thinking about nationalisms & nations in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique / Eric Morier-Genoud
  • Anticolonialism & nationalism : deconstructing synonymy, investigating historical processes. notes on the heterogeneity of former African colonial Portuguese areas / Michel Cahen
  • Virtual nations and failed states : making sense of the labyrinth / Philip J. Havik
  • The social origins of good and bad governance : re-interpreting the 1968 schism in Frelimo / Georgi Derluguian
  • Writing a nation or writing a culture? : Frelimo and nationalism during the Mozambican liberation war / Maria-Benedita Basto
  • "An imaginary nation" : nationalism, ideology & the Mozambican national elite / Jason Sumich
  • UNITA and the moral economy of exclusion in Angola, 1966-1977 / Didier Péclard
  • Angola's Euro-African nationalism : the United Angolan Front / Fernando Tavares Pimenta
  • Changing nationalisms : from war to peace in Angola / Justin Pearce
  • Is "Nationalism" a feature of Angola's cultural identity? / David Birmingham
  • Nationalisms, nations and states : concluding reflections / Gavin Williams

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Description

This book brings together new research on the subject of nations and nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It explores the history and politics of diverse nationalist discourses and ideologies, and it revisits the formation and contemporary developments of national imagined communities in Portuguese-speaking Africa. It does so by drawing on several disciplines and by exploring themes as diverse as Frelimo's liberation literature, UNITA's moral economy and the disaggregation of Guinea-Bissau. The authors provide novel insights in the hope of contributing to the academic and public debate on the subject, not least in those countries where, in the face of liberalisation, ruling parties and their opponents have been arguing intensively over, and have sometime struggled to re-invent, a sense of national community. Through their engagement with the subject, authors also make a contribution to the general discussion of the concepts of nations and nationalism.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS List of Illustrations ..................................................................................................vii List of Contributors ................................................................................................. ix Introduction. Thinking about Nationalisms & Nations in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique ...............xiii Eric Morier-Genoud I Anticolonialism & Nationalism: Deconstructing Synonymy, Investigating Historical Processes. Notes on the Heterogeneity of Former African Colonial Portuguese Areas ........................................... 1 Michel Cahen II Virtual Nations and Failed States: Making Sense of the Labyrinth ............................... 31 Philip J. Havik III The Social Origins of Good and Bad Governance: Re-interpreting the 1968 Schism in Frelimo ............ 79 Georgi Derluguian IV Writing a Nation or Writing a Culture? Frelimo and Nationalism During the Mozambican Liberation War ...103 Maria-Benedita Basto V 'An Imaginary Nation'. Nationalism, Ideology & the Mozambican National Elite ..............................127 Jason Sumich VI UNITA and the Moral Economy of Exclusion in Angola, 1966-1977 ..................................................149 Didier Peclard VII Angola's Euro-African Nationalism: The United Angolan Front ..........................................................177 Fernando Tavares Pimenta Changing Nationalisms: From War to Peace in Angola......................199 Justin Pearce IX Is 'Nationalism' a Feature of Angola's Cultural Identity? ...................217 David Birmingham X Nationalisms, Nations and States: Concluding Reflections ...............231 Gavin Williams Thematic Bibliography .........................................................................................251 Index.........................................................................................................................265

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