Transformations of Rural Spaces in Mozambique: Communities, Cultures and Play (Africa Now) - Softcover

Cecilia Navarra; Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786999250 ISBN 13: 9781786999252

Publisher: Zed Books, 2021

Synopsis

Despite the persistence of poverty in Mozambique important investments have been made in rural areas, at the level of extractive industry or agribusiness, resulting in both transformation of these areas and a new set of tensions and conflicts related to land tenure, population resettlement or general livelihoods. At the same time Mozambican rural landscape is dominated by smallholders, whose livelihoods depend on farming and a mix of non-farming activities, and are often extremely vulnerable to shocks and pressure over resources. In this scenario, new civil society organizations emerge and often stumble in the interests of local political, administrative and economic powers creating fresh social conflicts. Transformations of the Rural Spaces in Mozambique examines the processes of transformation in a diversity of settings, bringing to the fore discussions on aspects related to the associational life; impacts of large-scale industries; relations between state and non-state actors; issues related to land; and the transformation of agriculture. With contributions from both Mozambican and non-Mozambican scholars, with different disciplinary backgrounds and approaches, this book provides an interdisciplinary perspective of how Mozambique has been characterized by profound changes in the rural milieu.

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About the Author

<div><div>Cecilia Navarra has a PhD in Economics from the University of Turin where she has also been a Teaching Assistant in Microeconomics and Lecturer in Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Political Sciences.
</div><div>She has been a Research Fellow at the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE, Trento, Italy), at the Department of Economics of the University of Turin, and then a Post-doc Fellow at the Centre of Research in the Economics of Development (CRED) at University of Namur (Belgium). She has also been a Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. 

</div><div></div>Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues is a Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, focussing on urban transformation, youth, rural-urban migration, urban strategies, borders, mining, and local development. The geographical areas of her work are the lusophone African countries – Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe – where she has been conducting research for over 15 years.</div><div>

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Edition details

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786999250
• ISBN 13: 9781786999252
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Cecilia Navarra And Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues