Anselmo Matusse
Biographic Data
| ID | 99075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anselmo Matusse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anselmo |
| FAMILY NAME | Matusse |
| SIGNATURE | MATUSSE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0995-513X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contested Belonging
This article examines how local chiefs frame their relationships with communities and Mount Mabo through kinship, exoteric knowledge, and spiritual power in the context of growing impositions of neoliberal nature governance. The article shows that the amwene (local chiefs) hold authority due to their spiritual connection with what they consider sibling landscapes: the oldest brother, Mount Mabo; the middle sister, River Múgue; and the youngest br…
Ghosts of Bilateralism
International audience
It's not Just a Wall”
This study investigates the late Mozambican artist Malangatana Valente Ngwenya's mural in Zimpeto as an art object that contributed to peacebuilding in Mozambique during the devastating internal conflict known as the Sixteen Years War (1976–1992). The article draws on an interview with Malangatana Valente Ngwenya recorded while shooting the BBC TV film Homeland, the raw footage used as ethnographic material and recent interviews with the artist's…
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations
This research conducted between June 2016 and April 2018 employs ethnographic research, archival sources, and observations to reveal the emergence of the Plantationocene in Mozambique's Lugela district. It explores how historical exploitation and governance of land and people by colonial companies, specifically Société du Madal, have influenced the current plantation regime. By focusing on a MHL rubber plantation in the postcolonial era, the arti…
AR and Public Participation in Maputo City
This study examines the potential of using Augmented Reality to increase urban participation to deal with identified problems in Maputo city, Mozambique, southern Africa. The study’s aim is twofold; first, it seeks to add to the nascent literature on Augmented Reality (AR) in Africa; second, to experiment with AR for public participation in urban Maputo to explore the affordances of AR and examine the possibility and limitations of deploying the …
Sites of contestation
Commuting Trips, Income and Gender in the Metropolitan Maputo, Mozambique
The deterioration of public transport services coupled with rapid urbanization and the increased use of private transport imposes an increasing burden on the commuters in the metropolitan area of Maputo. Using household surveys conducted in Maputo, this paper seeks to investigate the commuting trips and gender relations by employing binomial logistic regression. The empirical results revealed the household income as the main attribute affecting t…
Laws, Parks, Reserves, and Local Peoples
This article uses a short historical study of Mozambican conservation legislation to show how local knowledges have been systematically disenfranchised from legislation since colonial period through a discourse analysis of conservation legal documents including constitutions. This study shows that the country has favoured modernity as a framework to deal with nature conservation which clashed in complex ways with local modes of living. Hence the …
Laws, Parks, Reserves, and Local Peoples
This article uses a short historical study of Mozambican conservation legislation to show how local knowledges have been systematically disenfranchised from legislation since colonial period through a discourse analysis of conservation legal documents including constitutions. This study shows that the country has favoured modernity as a framework to deal with nature conservation which clashed in complex ways with local modes of living. Hence the …
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations
This research conducted between June 2016 and April 2018 employs ethnographic research, archival sources, and observations to reveal the emergence of the Plantationocene in Mozambique's Lugela district. It explores how historical exploitation and governance of land and people by colonial companies, specifically Société du Madal, have influenced the current plantation regime. By focusing on a MHL rubber plantation in the postcolonial era, the arti…
Laws, Parks, Reserves, and Local Peoples
This article uses a short historical study of Mozambican conservation legislation to show how local knowledges have been systematically disenfranchised from legislation since colonial period through a discourse analysis of conservation legal documents including constitutions. This study shows that the country has favoured modernity as a framework to deal with nature conservation which clashed in complex ways with local modes of living. Hence the …
Commuting Trips, Income and Gender in the Metropolitan Maputo, Mozambique
The deterioration of public transport services coupled with rapid urbanization and the increased use of private transport imposes an increasing burden on the commuters in the metropolitan area of Maputo. Using household surveys conducted in Maputo, this paper seeks to investigate the commuting trips and gender relations by employing binomial logistic regression. The empirical results revealed the household income as the main attribute affecting t…
Sites of contestation
AR and Public Participation in Maputo City
This study examines the potential of using Augmented Reality to increase urban participation to deal with identified problems in Maputo city, Mozambique, southern Africa. The study’s aim is twofold; first, it seeks to add to the nascent literature on Augmented Reality (AR) in Africa; second, to experiment with AR for public participation in urban Maputo to explore the affordances of AR and examine the possibility and limitations of deploying the …
From colonial tea to postcolonial rubber plantations
This research conducted between June 2016 and April 2018 employs ethnographic research, archival sources, and observations to reveal the emergence of the Plantationocene in Mozambique's Lugela district. It explores how historical exploitation and governance of land and people by colonial companies, specifically Société du Madal, have influenced the current plantation regime. By focusing on a MHL rubber plantation in the postcolonial era, the arti…
Ghosts of Bilateralism
International audience
It's not Just a Wall”
This study investigates the late Mozambican artist Malangatana Valente Ngwenya's mural in Zimpeto as an art object that contributed to peacebuilding in Mozambique during the devastating internal conflict known as the Sixteen Years War (1976–1992). The article draws on an interview with Malangatana Valente Ngwenya recorded while shooting the BBC TV film Homeland, the raw footage used as ethnographic material and recent interviews with the artist's…
Contested Belonging
This article examines how local chiefs frame their relationships with communities and Mount Mabo through kinship, exoteric knowledge, and spiritual power in the context of growing impositions of neoliberal nature governance. The article shows that the amwene (local chiefs) hold authority due to their spiritual connection with what they consider sibling landscapes: the oldest brother, Mount Mabo; the middle sister, River Múgue; and the youngest br…
Political science (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · Affordance (1 work)