基本説明
It explores the history and politics of diverse nationalist discourses and ideologies.
Full 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.
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 Péclard
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
