Mozambique on the Move

Sheila Pereira Khan, Ph.D. (2004), Warwick University, is a Postdoc Researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre, Uminho University. She has published several articles and books on Mozambican immigration, Portuguese postcolonialism, life and identity narratives, epistemologies, memory, post-memory and authorities of memory. Maria Paula Meneses, Ph.D. (1999), Rutgers University, is a Mozambican scholar currently working at the Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra University. She has published multiple works resulting from research projects on the social and historical context of modern Mozambique.Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Ph.D. (2010), University of Bergen, is Professor of Social Anthropology at that university. He has published extensively on state formation, egalitarianism, violence, politics and socio-cultural processes in Mozambique.

• PrefaceSheila Pereira Khan, Maria Paula Meneses and Bjørn Enge BertelsenList of ContributorsIntroduction – Situating Mozambican Histories, Epistemologies, and PotentialitiesMaria Paula Meneses, Sheila Pereira Khan and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen1 ‘No passado o futuro era melhor?’: Mozambique’s Democracy in QuestionAnna Maria Gentili2 Mirrors and Contrasts: Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in Manica, MozambiqueRandi Kaarhus3 From Celebrating Female Emancipation to Emplacing Emperor Ngungunyane: Remoulding the Past in Mozambican National NarratologyBjørn Enge Bertelsen4 Urban Transformation, Family Strategies and Home Space Creation in the City of MaputoAna Bérnard da Costa5 A Possible Triangle: Employment, Aid, and Mineral WealthLia Quartapelle6 (Re)configurations of Identity: Memory and Creation in the Narrative of Mia CoutoAna Margarida Fonseca7 Dialogues with the Past and with the Future: Ualalapi and Jesusalém Anne Sletsjøe8 Racial, Cultural and Emotional Crossing Paths: Mia Couto’s Hopeful Pessimism in Terra Sonâmbula andO Outro Pé da Sereia Leonor Simas-Almeida and Sandra Sousa9 Mozambican Capulanas: Tracing Histories and MemoriesSigne Arnfred and Maria Paula Meneses10 Healing the Pain of War through Art: Mozambique’s Grassroots Approach to Post-Conflict Resolution – Transformação de Armas em EnxadasAmy Schwartzott11 ‘Taking Ownership’: The Brazilian Pentecostal Project to Change MozambiqueLinda van de Kamp12 Singing Struggles, Affirming Politics: Mozambique’s Revolutionary Songs as Other Ways of Being (in) HistoryMaria Paula Meneses13 Scientific Research and Epistemological ViolenceJosé Luis CabaçoIndex