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Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860-1910 (Social History of Africa Series)
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Thousands of Mozambican workers tramped to the sugar plantations, diamond fields, and gold mines of South Africa. They arrived with the cultures and traditions they had learned at home, and it was through their encounter with other blacks, as well as with white employers, that a new and dynamic culture emerged. Work, Culture, and Identity offers a compelling narrative of the day-to-day life of these migrants. Harries portrays workers as not mere units of suffering, but human beings attempting to deal with exploitative situations in culturally creative ways.
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From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier (Culture, Place, and Nature)
David Mcdermott Hughes Manufacturer: University of Washington Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Policy & Current Events
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From Enslavement to Environmentalismtakes a challenging ethnographic and historical look at the politics of ecodevelopment in the Zimbabwe-Mozambiqueborder zone. David Hughes argues that European colonization in southern Africa has profoundly reshaped rural politics and culture and continues to do so, as neoliberal developers commoditize the lands of African peasants in the name of conservation and economic progress.Hughes builds his engaging analysis around a sort of natural experiment: in the past, whites colonized British Zimbabwe but avoided Portuguese Mozambique almost entirely. In Zimbabwe, chiefdoms that had historically focused on controlling people began to follow the English example of consolidating political power by dividing and controlling land. Meanwhile, in Mozambique, Portugal perpetuated traditional practices of recruiting and distributing forced labor as the primary means of securing power. For almost the entire twentieth century, a sharp disjuncture in the politics of land, leadership, labor, and resource use marked the border zone.
In the late 1990s, white South Africans began to establish timber plantations in Mozambique, and that difference began to be effaced. Under the banner of environmentalism and economic progress, tourism firms were allowed to claim peasant farmland. Likewise, southern African policymakers supported this new form of colonization as a form of racial integration between white investors and black peasants, paving the way for an ironic and contentious situation in which ethnic tolerance, gentrification, and land-grabbing have gone hand in hand.
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Aid that Works: Successful Development in Fragile States (Directions in Development)
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Research in recent years on aid effectiveness shows that significant obstacles in fragile states - insecurity, poor governance and weak implementation capacity - usually prevent aid from achieving the desired results in these environments. This study investigates the attributes and effectiveness of donor-supported programmes and projects that worked well under difficult conditions in fragile states. Presented in this study are nine development initiatives in six less developed countries - Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Timor Leste and Uganda. The cases show that development initiatives, which engage local communities and local level governments, are often able to have significant impact. However, for more substantial improvements to take places, localized gains need to be scaled up either horizontally (other localities) or vertically (to higher levels). Given the advantages of working at the local level and the difficulty of working through mainstream bureaucratic agencies at higher levels in these countries, donors often prefer to create 'parallel-agencies' to reach out to larger numbers of beneficiaries. However, this may in the long run weaken the legitimacy of mainstream government institutions, and donor agencies may therefore choose to work as closely as possible with government officials from the beginning to build trust and demonstrating that new initiatives are non-threatening and help prepare the eventual mainstreaming of 'parallel agencies'.
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The State Against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique
Merle L. Bowen Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Policy & Current Events
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In 1975, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) led the country to independence after a ten-year guerilla war against Portuguese colonial rule. Peasants were essential to the victory, but once in power Frelimo evolved from a popular liberation movement into a bureaucratic one-party state whose policies proved to be as inimical to the peasantry as those of the Portuguese colonial regime. These policies not only characterized the socialist phase of Frelimo rule; they continued during the period of economic and political reform that took place in the 1990s under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund. Merle L. Bowen's book offers a fresh assessment of the impact that such policies, pursued by postindependence states and NGOs alike, have had on the peasantry and agricultural production in Africa.In contrast to accounts that blame the state, the elite, or the peasantry itself for the agricultural crisis in posHColonial Africa, Bowen argues that Mozambique's decline in production is rooted in policies established during colonialism and continued by Frelimo. By tracing shifts in policy over a longer period than previous studies and across changing regimes, Bowen provides solid evidence that the continuation of colonial policies under the Frelimo government alienated the peasantry and contributed to internal conflict.
Bowen refuses to treat the peasantry as a homogeneous mass. Drawing on oral data, archival research, and published accounts, she charts the rise and fall of a stratum of middle class agricultural producers in southern Mozambique that she deems central to the problem of food production. Like those of the colonial government, Frelimo's anti-peasant policies are rooted in a desire to prevent this middle class from becoming politically and economically independent and thereby acting as a counterweight to state power. To address the agricultural crisis, Bowen calls for a reconsideration of Mozambican and IMF policies to support rather than suppress capital accumulation within this rural middle class.
Through its careful consideration of the peasantry and the role of NGOs, The State Against the Peasantry offers a nuanced understanding of the development process that has taken place in Mozambique and other southern African countries since independence.
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The Uncertain Promise of Southern Africa
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Leading scholars analyze the economic, political, social, and cultural conditions in Southern Africa and the prospects for the region.|
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Mozambique Ecology & Nature Protection Handbook (World Business, Investment and Government Library)
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The 2000 Import and Export Market for Buckwheat, Millet, Canary Seed, and Grain Sorghum in Mozambique (World Trade Report)
Millet The Buckwheat , Millet, Canary Seed, The Buckwheat , and Grain Sorghum Research Group Manufacturer: Icon Group International ProductGroup: Book Binding: Ring-bound General
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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum in Mozambique face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum to Mozambique? How important is Mozambique compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum vary from one country of origin to another in Mozambique? On the supply side, Mozambique also exports buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum. Which countries receive the most exports from Mozambique? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum in Mozambique. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. Icon Group has developed a proprietary methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for buckwheat, millet, canary seed, and grain sorghum for those countries serving Mozambique via exports, or supplying from Mozambique via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.
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Mozambique Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (Russian Regional Investment and Business Library)
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Peace Without Profit: How the IMF Blocks Rebuilding in Mozambique (African Issues Series)
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Where is the boom that should have followed the end of Mozambique's bitter war? Postwar reconstruction is slow; the economic crisis continues. Peasants returned to the countryside, but no one came to buy their crops. Workers went back to their factories, but there was no money to buy their products. Hanlon has written widely about Mozambique; here he lays out the sad truths of the current situation. Deflation is the opposite of what is needed Mozambique has followed the IMF/World Bank prescription of structural adjustment: free market and deflation, deregulation and demand reductions. Wages, credit, and government spending have been cut. This stops the rebuilding of Mozambique in its tracks, and even prevents an active role by the private sector. The donors have launched an attack on the excesses of stabilization In 1995 donor representatives launched an unprecedented attack on the Bretton Woods institutions. Mozambique is one of the first African countries where postwar reconstructio|
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Mozambique paint market poised for rise. (International Coatings Scene).: An article from: Coatings World
Charles W. Thurston Manufacturer: Rodman Publications, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FJ84Q Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Coatings World, published by Rodman Publications, Inc. on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 642 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books: