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Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique: Governance, Politics and Spiritual Systems

Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique: Governance, Politics and Spiritual Systems

Kleibl, Tanja

Paperback

Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa

Business GeneralGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1786999358
ISBN13: 9781786999351
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: Mar 23 2023
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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