Marle L Bowen
Biographic Data
| ID | 96768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marle L Bowen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marle L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowen |
| SIGNATURE | BOWEN M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6451-9878 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Palm Oil Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia's Dendê Coast
This is an extraordinary and timely study of both the history and contemporary circumstances concerning the African oil palm in Brazil, where enslaved Africans and their descendants applied ancestral knowledges of dendê (the Afro-Brazilian term for palm oil) to create Bahia's agroecologies of resistance, subsistence economies, and distinct cultures. In Palm Oil Diaspora, Case Watkins makes novel theoretical and empirical contributions to the rich…
For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil
For Land and Liberty is a comparative study of the history and contemporary circumstances concerning Brazil's quilombos (African-descent rural communities) and their inhabitants, the quilombolas. The book examines the disposition of quilombola claims to land as a site of contestation over citizenship and its meanings for Afro-descendants, as well as their connections to the broader fight against racism. Contrary to the narrative that quilombola i…
Who owns paradise? Afro-Brazilians and ethnic tourism in Brazil’s quilombos
In twenty-first century Brazil, Afro-Brazilians have embraced various cultural markers of their ethno-racial identity to improve their economic survival and well-being. Although these markers may take many forms across Brazil, this essay examines the growing enterprise of ethnic tourism in quilombos or communities of African descent. The work of John L. and Jean Comaroff, Ethnicity, Inc., is introduced as a point of departure to explore the two d…
Developing Culturally Responsive Surveys: Lessons in Development, Implementation, and Analysis From Brazil’s African Descent Communities
Considerable empirical research, along with a growing body of conceptual and theoretical literature, exists on the role of culture and context in evaluation. Less scholarship has examined culturally responsive surveys in the context of international evaluation. In this article, the authors present lessons learned from the development, implementation, and analysis of surveys used to evaluate the struggle of Brazil’s quilombos, or former fugitive s…
The struggle for black land rights in Brazil: An insider's view on quilombos and the quilombo land movement
In recent years, land movements in many countries of the Global South have played a pivotal role in pressuring their government to pass new land legislation that recognizes both customary and ethnic land rights. In Brazil, Afro-Brazilian land activists lobbied the government to include protection of the territorial and cultural integrity of black rural communities in the 1988 constitution. Since the mid-1990s, the national quilombo movement has e…
The State against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique
The State against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique
In 1975, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) led the country to independence after a ten-year guerilla war against Portuguese colonial rule. Peasants were essential to the victory, but once in power Frelimo evolved from a popular liberation movement into a bureaucratic one-party state whose policies proved to be as inimical to the peasantry as those of the Portuguese colonial regime. These policies not only characterized the soci…
Beyond Reform: Adjustment and Political Power in Contemporary Mozambique
Faced with global depression and political readjustments in thr late 1980s, all states in Africa have been trying to implement major reforms. For socialist regimes, however, the demands have been the more daunting since these changes have often directly threatened the ideology (and the aspirations) of creating a more egalitarian social order in the wake of colonial rule. Their states faced fundamental social, economic and ideological transformati…
Beyond Reform: Adjustment and Political Power in Contemporary Mozambique
Faced with global depression and political readjustments in the late 1980s, all states in Africa have been trying to implement major reforms. For socialist régimes, however, the demands have been the more daunting since these changes have often directly threatened the ideology (and the aspirations) of creating a more egalitarian social order in the wake of colonial rule. Their states faced fundamental social, economic, and ideological transformat…
Economic Crisis in Mozambique
Essay| May 01 1990 Economic Crisis in Mozambique Merle L. Bowen Merle L. Bowen Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Merle L. Bowen has done extensive field research in rural Mozambique. Her most recent article is “Peasant Agriculture in Mozambique,” Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 23, no. 3 (1989). She is completing a book on Mozambique’s agricultural development strategy from 1975 to 1989…
Peasant Agriculture in Mozambique: The Case of Chokwe, Gaza Province
RésuméLa grande majorité des conseils prodigués à l'Afrique reposent sur une critique du gouvernement et de son rôle dans l'économie. Cet article examine le retrait de l'état du Mozambique du secteur agricole. Il considère les effets et les implications des changements de politiques sur les producteurs agricoles de Chokwe, région du Mozambique sud. L'étude de cas détaillée décrit les opportunités offertes à divers groupes de Chokwe, ainsi que les…
Land Struggles and Social Differentiation in Southern Mozambique: A Case Study of Chokwe, Limpopo 1950-1987
The Life History of Raul Honwana. An Inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence, 1905-1975
The State against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique
In 1975, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) led the country to independence after a ten-year guerilla war against Portuguese colonial rule. Peasants were essential to the victory, but once in power Frelimo evolved from a popular liberation movement into a bureaucratic one-party state whose policies proved to be as inimical to the peasantry as those of the Portuguese colonial regime. These policies not only characterized the soci…
The State against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique
Beyond Reform: Adjustment and Political Power in Contemporary Mozambique
Faced with global depression and political readjustments in the late 1980s, all states in Africa have been trying to implement major reforms. For socialist régimes, however, the demands have been the more daunting since these changes have often directly threatened the ideology (and the aspirations) of creating a more egalitarian social order in the wake of colonial rule. Their states faced fundamental social, economic, and ideological transformat…
For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil
For Land and Liberty is a comparative study of the history and contemporary circumstances concerning Brazil's quilombos (African-descent rural communities) and their inhabitants, the quilombolas. The book examines the disposition of quilombola claims to land as a site of contestation over citizenship and its meanings for Afro-descendants, as well as their connections to the broader fight against racism. Contrary to the narrative that quilombola i…
Who owns paradise? Afro-Brazilians and ethnic tourism in Brazil’s quilombos
In twenty-first century Brazil, Afro-Brazilians have embraced various cultural markers of their ethno-racial identity to improve their economic survival and well-being. Although these markers may take many forms across Brazil, this essay examines the growing enterprise of ethnic tourism in quilombos or communities of African descent. The work of John L. and Jean Comaroff, Ethnicity, Inc., is introduced as a point of departure to explore the two d…
Developing Culturally Responsive Surveys: Lessons in Development, Implementation, and Analysis From Brazil’s African Descent Communities
Considerable empirical research, along with a growing body of conceptual and theoretical literature, exists on the role of culture and context in evaluation. Less scholarship has examined culturally responsive surveys in the context of international evaluation. In this article, the authors present lessons learned from the development, implementation, and analysis of surveys used to evaluate the struggle of Brazil’s quilombos, or former fugitive s…
The struggle for black land rights in Brazil: An insider's view on quilombos and the quilombo land movement
In recent years, land movements in many countries of the Global South have played a pivotal role in pressuring their government to pass new land legislation that recognizes both customary and ethnic land rights. In Brazil, Afro-Brazilian land activists lobbied the government to include protection of the territorial and cultural integrity of black rural communities in the 1988 constitution. Since the mid-1990s, the national quilombo movement has e…
Peasant Agriculture in Mozambique: The Case of Chokwe, Gaza Province
RésuméLa grande majorité des conseils prodigués à l'Afrique reposent sur une critique du gouvernement et de son rôle dans l'économie. Cet article examine le retrait de l'état du Mozambique du secteur agricole. Il considère les effets et les implications des changements de politiques sur les producteurs agricoles de Chokwe, région du Mozambique sud. L'étude de cas détaillée décrit les opportunités offertes à divers groupes de Chokwe, ainsi que les…
Land Struggles and Social Differentiation in Southern Mozambique: A Case Study of Chokwe, Limpopo 1950-1987
The Life History of Raul Honwana. An Inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence, 1905-1975
Economic Crisis in Mozambique
Essay| May 01 1990 Economic Crisis in Mozambique Merle L. Bowen Merle L. Bowen Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Merle L. Bowen has done extensive field research in rural Mozambique. Her most recent article is “Peasant Agriculture in Mozambique,” Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 23, no. 3 (1989). She is completing a book on Mozambique’s agricultural development strategy from 1975 to 1989…
Beyond Reform: Adjustment and Political Power in Contemporary Mozambique
Faced with global depression and political readjustments in the late 1980s, all states in Africa have been trying to implement major reforms. For socialist régimes, however, the demands have been the more daunting since these changes have often directly threatened the ideology (and the aspirations) of creating a more egalitarian social order in the wake of colonial rule. Their states faced fundamental social, economic, and ideological transformat…
Beyond Reform: Adjustment and Political Power in Contemporary Mozambique
Faced with global depression and political readjustments in thr late 1980s, all states in Africa have been trying to implement major reforms. For socialist regimes, however, the demands have been the more daunting since these changes have often directly threatened the ideology (and the aspirations) of creating a more egalitarian social order in the wake of colonial rule. Their states faced fundamental social, economic and ideological transformati…
The State against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique
In 1975, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) led the country to independence after a ten-year guerilla war against Portuguese colonial rule. Peasants were essential to the victory, but once in power Frelimo evolved from a popular liberation movement into a bureaucratic one-party state whose policies proved to be as inimical to the peasantry as those of the Portuguese colonial regime. These policies not only characterized the soci…
The State against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique
The struggle for black land rights in Brazil: An insider's view on quilombos and the quilombo land movement
In recent years, land movements in many countries of the Global South have played a pivotal role in pressuring their government to pass new land legislation that recognizes both customary and ethnic land rights. In Brazil, Afro-Brazilian land activists lobbied the government to include protection of the territorial and cultural integrity of black rural communities in the 1988 constitution. Since the mid-1990s, the national quilombo movement has e…
Developing Culturally Responsive Surveys: Lessons in Development, Implementation, and Analysis From Brazil’s African Descent Communities
Considerable empirical research, along with a growing body of conceptual and theoretical literature, exists on the role of culture and context in evaluation. Less scholarship has examined culturally responsive surveys in the context of international evaluation. In this article, the authors present lessons learned from the development, implementation, and analysis of surveys used to evaluate the struggle of Brazil’s quilombos, or former fugitive s…
Who owns paradise? Afro-Brazilians and ethnic tourism in Brazil’s quilombos
In twenty-first century Brazil, Afro-Brazilians have embraced various cultural markers of their ethno-racial identity to improve their economic survival and well-being. Although these markers may take many forms across Brazil, this essay examines the growing enterprise of ethnic tourism in quilombos or communities of African descent. The work of John L. and Jean Comaroff, Ethnicity, Inc., is introduced as a point of departure to explore the two d…
For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil
For Land and Liberty is a comparative study of the history and contemporary circumstances concerning Brazil's quilombos (African-descent rural communities) and their inhabitants, the quilombolas. The book examines the disposition of quilombola claims to land as a site of contestation over citizenship and its meanings for Afro-descendants, as well as their connections to the broader fight against racism. Contrary to the narrative that quilombola i…
Palm Oil Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia's Dendê Coast
This is an extraordinary and timely study of both the history and contemporary circumstances concerning the African oil palm in Brazil, where enslaved Africans and their descendants applied ancestral knowledges of dendê (the Afro-Brazilian term for palm oil) to create Bahia's agroecologies of resistance, subsistence economies, and distinct cultures. In Palm Oil Diaspora, Case Watkins makes novel theoretical and empirical contributions to the rich…
Political science (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)