ISBN:
9781786999351
Language:
English
Pages:
208 Seiten
Series Statement:
Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa
Keywords:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development
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Colonialism & imperialism
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Development economics & emerging economies
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Entwicklungsökonomie und Schwellenländer
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Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
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National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
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Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus
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POL045000
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries
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Africa
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Afrika
Abstract:
By demonstrating that Western conceptions of 'civil society' have provided the framework for interpreting societies in the Global South, Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique argues that it is only through a critical deconstruction of these concepts that we can start to re-balance global power relationships, both in academic discourse and in development practices.Examining the exclusionary discourses framing the support for Western-type NGOs in the development discourse - often to the exclusion of local social actors - this book dissects mainstream contemporary ideas about 'civil society', and finds a new means by which to identify local forms of social action, often based in traditional structures and spiritual discourses. Outlining new conceptual ideas for an alternative framing of Mozambique's 'civil society', Kleibl proposes a series of fresh theoretical issues and questions alongside empirical research, moving towards a series of new policy and practice arguments for rethinking and decolonizing civil society in the Global South
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Civil Society - a Functional or Transformative Concept?Part I: Interrogating Civil Society in the Development DiscoursePart II: Civil Society in MozambiquePart III: Governance and Civil Society in MozambiquePart IV: Civil Society in the Context of Economic Disorder and Political ConflictConclusion: Identifying and Pushing the Post-colonial Boundaries
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