UID:
almafu_9958325246302883
Format:
1 online resource (296 p.)
ISBN:
1-280-49607-X
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9786613591302
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90-04-22601-X
Series Statement:
African social studies series ; 28
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminary Material /
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Introduction. Thinking about Nationalisms and Nations in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique /
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Anticolonialism and Nationalism: Deconstructing Synonymy, Investigating Historical Processes. Notes on the Heterogeneity of Former African Colonial Portuguese Areas /
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Virtual Nations and Failed States: Making Sense of the Labyrinth /
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The Social Origins of Good and Bad Governance: Re-interpreting the 1968 Schism in Frelimo /
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Writing a Nation or Writing a Culture? Frelimo and Nationalism During the Mozambican Liberation War /
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‘An Imaginary Nation’. Nationalism, Ideology and the Mozambican National Elite /
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UNITA and the Moral Economy of Exclusion in Angola, 1966–1977 /
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Angola’s Euro-African Nationalism: The United Angolan Front /
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Changing Nationalisms: From War to Peace in Angola /
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Is ‘Nationalism’ a Feature of Angola’s Cultural Identity? /
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Nationalisms, Nations and States: Concluding Reflections /
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Thematic Bibliography /
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Index /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-22261-8
Language:
English
