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Decolonising intervention : international statebuilding in Mozambique / Meera Sabaratnam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabaratnam, Meera, author.
- Series:
- Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions
- Kilombo : international relations and colonial questions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations--Mozambique--History.
- United Nations.
- Decolonization--Mozambique.
- Decolonization.
- Nation-building--Mozambique.
- Nation-building.
- Postcolonialism--Mozambique.
- Postcolonialism.
- Politics and government.
- Mozambique--Politics and government--1994-.
- Mozambique.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? Sabaratnam argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international 'expertise'. This open access book challenges and enhances standard 'critical' narratives of statebuilding by exploring the historical experiences and interpretive frameworks of the people targeted by intervention. Drawing on face-to-face interviews, archival research, policy reviews and in-country participant-observations carried out over several years, the author challenges assumptions underpinning external interventions, such as the incapacity of 'local' agents to govern and the necessity of 'liberal' values in demanding better governance. The analysis focuses on Mozambique, long hailed as one of international donors' great success stories, but whose peaceful, prosperous, democratic future now hangs in the balance. The conclusions underscore the significance of thinking with rather than for the targets of state-building assistance, and appreciating the historical and material conditions which underpin these reform efforts. Click on the Features Tab for Open Access to this title. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by SOAS, University of London; London School of Economics (LSE); Economic and Social Research Council of the UK (ESRC)
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction / 2. Intervention, Statebuilding and Eurocentrism / 3. Strategies for Decolonizing Intervention / 4. The State Under Intervention / 5. Intervention and the Peasantry / 6. Anti-corruption Politics and the Limits of Intervention / 7. Conclusion: Decolonizing Intervention, Decolonizing International Relations
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8181-303-1
- 1-78348-276-1
- OCLC:
- 986788737
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