Violence, Rumor, and Elusive Trust in Mocímboa da Praia, Mozambique

Santos, Ana Clara

doi:10.3167/sa.2021.6503of3

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“…For the villagers, while the Administrator 'ate well' , people under his administration starved, were afraid of harvesting their food and faced the risk of lion attacks. 126 On the other hand, pre-and post-electoral periods generated quite violent discourse between Frelimo and Renamo parties, sometimes ending in real skirmishes, arrests or murders, the most notorious being the mass killings in Montepuez in 2000, 127 in Mocímboa da Praia in 2005, 128 or Mogincual in 2009. Reversing Clausewitz's postulate, politics actually represented the continuation of war by other means in the decades following the GPA.…”

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Domination, Collaboration and Conflict in Cabo Delgado's History of Extractivism

Feijó,

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2024

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A long history of extractive industries and activities have shaped the societies of northern Mozambique, and the Cabo Delgado province in particular. For centuries, the growing international demand on local resources had a great impact on the northern micro-societies. The demand for cheap labour and natural resources, ranging from ivory and cotton, to timber, rubies, land, gas and more, involved thousands of local actors in its extraction, reproducing systems of local power. The persistence of poverty, inequality and conflicts, as well as simmering and sometimes grand-scale violence, fits into a long-term trend of extractivism. Through a historical approach and field observations, we focus on the political economy of extracting natural resources. We point out the persisting basic patterns of extractivism that accompanied Mozambique's integration into global markets, and continued or even deepened, in the post-independence period. These activities are oriented towards foreign markets. They are instigated by foreign investment, but invariably carried out in collaboration with a chain of national gatekeepers. In a clientelist system, local elites resort to their proximity to the state to reproduce their power, often at the expense of state expropriation. Weak state institutions have the functional effect of reproducing the elites, also serving the interests of extractivist capital. It is, however, a system with many and profound contradictions, producing conflict and violence, which also recurrently put those interests at risk.

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Domination, Collaboration and Conflict in Cabo Delgado's History of Extractivism

Feijó,

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2024

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“…Anthropologists contextualise mistrust by connecting it to materiality, for instance, showing how mistrust in the Caucasus is born specifi cally from the perception of incompatibility or contradiction between the surface and the interiority of objects (Mühlfried 2021). And in Mozambique, violence and the social circulation of rumours make the very notion of trust elusive (Santos 2021).…”

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Reality, Realism and the Future

Kruglova

2023

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

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The world’s ethos in 2021 grew increasingly realistic, focusing on constraints and practicalities, accounting for ‘bitter necessities’, and choosing defensiveness, preservation and stability over creation and exploration. The rise of realism in the world’s public and private spheres presents a challenge to anthropology’s ability to integrate a moral compass, empirical embeddedness and epistemological value in the discipline. This review of research published in some major peer-reviewed Anglophone European journals in 2021 seeks to vindicate the optimistic kind of moral realism by showing its inescapable entanglement in two of the most powerful items on anthropologists’ agendas today, the ontological and the future-oriented.Résumé : En 2021 l’éthos mondial est devenu de plus en plus orienté vers le réalisme avec le souci d’identifier des contraints, nécessités et aspects pratiques. La défensive, la préservation et la stabilité ont été privilégiées. La création et l’exploration ont été mises à l’écart. La montée du réalisme à travers le monde a marqué la vie publique ainsi que les relations privées. Il est clair que cela représente un défi pour beaucoup d’anthropologues dans la mesure où cela bouscule les traditions. Le réalisme nécessite une prise de position quant à la nature de la discipline anthropologique. Il faut s’interroger sur sa capacité d’incorporer le sens moral dans le processus de recherches empiriques et les fondements épistémologiques. Cet article examine des recherches évaluées par les pairs dont les résultats ont été publiés dans les principales revues scientifiques en langue anglaise de l’année 2021. Il vise à exprimer le bienfondé d’un réalisme optimiste à la croisée de deux priorités majeures pour des anthropologues d’aujourd’hui : l’ontologie et les études prospectives.

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“…Isso é perceptível no caso de Cabo Delgado, cuja história continua imersa em violência e conflitos políticos, interétnicos, religiosos, luta pela terra e recursos, desde o período pré-colonial até agora. Começando pela omissão dos mwanis na grande narrativa nacionalista sobre a guerra de libertação, que glorifica os macondes, 95 passando pela violência contra os muçulmanos encabeçada pelos burocratas macondes cristãos nos primeiros anos da independência, 96 a brutalidade da criação de aldeias comunais e os campos de reeducação, acompanhados pelo reassentamento maciço de macondes em terras muçulmanas costeiras, 97 e indo até aos conflitos entre mwanis pró-Renamo e macondes pró-Frelimo em várias eleições recentes, 98 persiste a percepção de vitimização da etnia mwani no período pós-colonial, seja pelo Estado central em Maputo, seja pelos macondes cristãos a ele aliados, e tudo isso pode certamente incentivar a entrada no jihadismo transnacional.…”

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jihadismo transnacional e a insurgência em Cabo Delgado, Moçambique

Bonate¹

2022

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Este artigo visa analisar o conflito de Cabo Delgado sob o prisma do jihadismo transnacional, uma ideologia e um movimento político que se apoderam de demandas e agravos locais, sobretudo contra o Estado, despoletando a insurgência ou canalizando a resistência já existente. O conflito representa também uma resistência contra a ordem mundial dominada pelo Ocidente. A primeira parte do artigo se debruça sobre o conceito e a história do jihadismo transnacional, salientando as transformações na ideologia e na ação dos seus protagonistas, e sua expansão geográfica. A segunda parte analisa o contexto sociopolítico e econômico de Cabo Delgado que contribuiu para o início da insurgência, destacando a resistência contra o Estado moçambicano e contra a hegemonia ocidental na forma do extrativismo conduzido por corporações transnacionais que ali se instalaram a partir de 2010.

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Violence, Rumor, and Elusive Trust in Mocímboa da Praia, Mozambique

Cited by 19 publications

References 57 publications

Domination, Collaboration and Conflict in Cabo Delgado's History of Extractivism

Domination, Collaboration and Conflict in Cabo Delgado's History of Extractivism

Reality, Realism and the Future

jihadismo transnacional e a insurgência em Cabo Delgado, Moçambique

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