Research Catalog

Title

Decolonising intervention : international statebuilding in Mozambique / Meera Sabaratnam.

Author

Sabaratnam, Meera

Publication

London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, [2017]

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Details

Description

x, 173 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? [The author] argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international 'expertise'. This 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."--

Series Statement

Kilombo : international relations and colonial questions

Uniform Title

Kilombo (Series)

Alternative Title

Decolonizing intervention

Subject

• United Nations > Mozambique > History
• United Nations
• Since 1994
• Nation-building > Mozambique
• Decolonization > Mozambique
• Postcolonialism > Mozambique
• Decolonization
• Nation-building
• Politics and government
• Postcolonialism
• Mozambique > Politics and government > 1994-
• Mozambique

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Intervention, statebuilding and Eurocentrism -- Strategies for decolonising intervention -- The state under intervention -- Intervention and peasantry -- Anti-corruption and the limits of intervention -- Conclusions: Decolonising intervention, decolonising international relations.

Call Number

Sc E 17-1091

ISBN

• 9781783482740
• 1783482745

LCCN

• 2016058750
• 40027281478

OCLC

986523099

Author

Sabaratnam, Meera, author.

Title

Decolonising intervention : international statebuilding in Mozambique / Meera Sabaratnam.

Publisher

London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Kilombo : international relations and colonial questions

Kilombo (Series)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1994

Other Standard Identifier

40027281478

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-1091