Decolonising Intervention
International Statebuilding in Mozambique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23796435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meera Sabaratnam (0000-0003-0086-7344, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Decolonising Intervention (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9798881813031 |
| OpenAlex | W4411602305 |
| ISBN | 9798881813031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? Sabaratnam argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international ‘expertise’. This open access 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. Click on the Features Tab for Open Access to this title. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by SOAS, University of London; London School of Economics (LSE); Economic and Social Research Council of the UK (ESRC)
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Literaturbericht
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Co-operation, Contestation and Complexity in Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era
Peace-in-Difference
(Un)learning ‘Europe’ as Decolonial Practice
Between ‘the paradox of liberalism’ and ‘the paradox of decoloniality’
A decolonial political geography of resistance and digital infrastructural harm in Cameroon and Ethiopia
Wilful entanglements
Needs, judgement, and hubris, or judging politics from the perspective of the pandemic
Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges
The Conspicuous Absence of Class and Privilege in the Study of Resistance in Peacebuilding Contexts
Making amends
Transnationally entangled (in)securities
Precarity and peacebuilding as a knowledge regime
A processual framework for analysing liberal policy interventions in conflict contexts
Improvising the international
(Un)learning ‘Europe’ as Decolonial Practice
Fontes comprometidas
Sources compromises
Gendering internal colonialism
The discourse of the European Union on the 2020 Belarusian civic protests
Activating archives for the practice turn in International Relations
Unraveling Coloniality in International Relations
Internal colonisation
Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa
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Forever failing
| Citations per year | 4.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |