Year Zero
History as Anti-Politics in the 'New Angola
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4603449 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Schubert (0000-0003-1100-8086, Leipzig University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 835-852 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057070.2015.1055548 |
| OpenAlex | W1644063292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
Since the end of the Angolan conflict in 2002, the ruling Movemento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) party has been promoting a ‘master narrative’ of ‘peace and reconstruction’, through which the Angolan conflict is re-signified as a merely technical issue, and the question of ‘national reconciliation’ is limited to the reconstruction of infrastructures. Conversely, post-war memory politics revisits the past only selectively. While the history of the independence struggle is revised and politicised, the post-independence Angolan conflict is notably absent from public discourse, as the MPLA's ambivalent role in contested events precludes the stabilisation of the civil war as ‘patriotic history’. Departing from scholarship on memory politics in post-liberation regimes, this article analyses the discursive strategies and performative acts employed in these processes, and looks at the symbolic and material effects of this ‘technical’ hegemonic discourse in the country's capital, Luanda. As national reconciliation is limited to the reconstruction of infrastructures, the master narrative of the ‘New Angola’ is also physically imposed on the urban cityscape; similarly, any substantive political dialogue about the war is precluded as a threat to the ‘gains of peace’, which are measured again in purely material terms of the built environment
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Hegemony · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Performative utterance · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Cuban History and Society · Law
Colonial Resonances
Between memory and erasure
Decolonization in, of and through the archival "moving images" of artistic practice
Entre a memória e o seu apagamento
Hegemony, Resistance and Gradations of Memory
The Pentecostal Antirevolution
The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles
The rise of Africa’s middle class
The anatomy of oblivion in José Eduardo Agualusa’s A General Theory of Oblivion
Memory, crisis and democracy in Africa
The Legacies of Defeat
Pentecostalism in the ‘New Luanda’
Être tokoïste pour être citoyen. Pratiques religieuses et subjectivation citoyenne en Angola
The invisible labor of the “New Angola”
The Middle Class in Mozambique
Quand le prophète revient dans la cité pour ramener la paix
Materiality, Morality, and Masculinities in the Social Transformations of War in Angola
Moving assemblies
The fullness of air
Banking on receipts and political declarations
Aesthetic Dissent
Thinking through material incompletion
From Rebellion to Opposition
Cement citizens
Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo
Hóspede é uma nuvem, passa, mas eu não sou uma nuvem, fico
Les « glorieuses familles »1
Seeing is believing
Fear and fainting in Luanda
Just out of Reach
A Culture of Immediatism
Disrupted dreams of development
A nossa lâmpada não se apaga
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |