Ideological twinning
Socialist aesthetics and political meetings in Maputo, Mozambique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7098337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Morten S Nielsen (0000-0001-9863-9694, Aarhus University, corresponding author), Morten Nielsen (0000-0002-8483-164X, Aarhus University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 138-152 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9655.12599 |
| OpenAlex | W2602431876 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 33 |
Based on recent ethnographical data from Maputo, Mozambique, this essay examines the revolutionary aesthetics of political meetings in a sociopolitical environment marked by the collapse of a national socialist ideology. Local political meetings in Mozambique articulate a paradoxical tension between sacrifice and revolution . While socialist rule disintegrated in the mid‐1980s, most local political meetings allow for the actualization of the revolutionary socialism which the governing Frelimo party was forced to sacrifice in order to remain in power. In the essay, it is thus examined how the enactment of a revolutionary aesthetics successfully exposes what Frelimo was incapable of realizing and thus momentarily captures the party's ideological legitimacy. Taking my inspiration from Roy Wagner's recent work on holography and invention, I explore the relationship between sacrifice and revolution as an articulation of a symmetrical ‘twinning’ of seemingly contrastive political principles that are held together by a singular political aesthetics that is actualized only at political meetings
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Articulation (sociology · Communism · Ideology · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sacrifice · Socialism · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Indigenous Studies in Latin America · Law · Philosophy
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Filling in the Blanks
Mind and nature
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A Difficult Road
Vújà De and the Quintessentialists' Guild
Power, poets and the people
Recursive Tricks and Holographic Infinities
Anthropology of the Subject
Forgetting from Above and Memory from Below
African Socialisms and Postsocialisms
Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000
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Luck in the double focus
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Effervescence and Ephemerality
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |