Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter One Introduction

Exploring the Politics of Intervention

Decolonising International Relations

Researching Intervention in Mozambique

Structure of the Book

Notes

Part I Decolonising Critique

Chapter Two Intervention, Statebuilding and Eurocentrism

The Beginner’s Guide to Nation-Building

What Is Eurocentrism and How Does It Locate the Political?

Critiques of Intervention and the Problem of Eurocentrism

Bypassing the Targets of Intervention: Research Design

Bypassing the Targets of Intervention: Governmentality Approaches

Ontologies of Otherness: Liberal-Local Relations, Hybridity and Resistance

The ‘Everyday’ and Hermeneutic Containment

Nostalgia for Social Contract Politics, Welfare Democracy and the Liberal Political Subject

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter Three Strategies for Decolonising Intervention

Strategies for Reconstructing Subjecthood

Recovering Historical Presence

Engaging Political Consciousness

Investigating Material Realities

Feminist Standpoint, ‘Objectivity’ and Epistemic Privilege

Conclusion to Part I

Notes

Part II Rethinking Intervention

Chapter Four The State Under Intervention

Building the Postcolonial State

International Intervention in Mozambique after the War

What Kind of State Has Been Built?

Fragmentation of State Infrastructure

Disappearance of Human Resources

Capacity-Building?

Citizen Experiences of Public Services under Intervention

Thinking Like a Target of International Intervention

Notes

Chapter Five Intervention and the Peasantry

The Political Significance of the Peasantry

Peasant Experiences of Intervention in the Agricultural Sector

Promoting Productivity

Rural Financing

Producing for the Market

Agricultural Policies, the State and International Intervention

The Peasant Movement and Alternative Visions of Development

The Mozambican Peasantry and the Long View of Intervention

Notes

Chapter Six Anti-Corruption and the Limits of Intervention

Good Governance and the Prospect of Radical Critique

‘Isso Não Acontecia se Samora Estivesse Vivo’ – ‘This Would Not Be Happening If Samora Was Alive’

Bloodsucking, Greed and Power

Anti-Corruption and Intervention

Notes

Chapter Seven Conclusions: Decolonising Intervention, Decolonising International Relations

What Have We Learned about International Statebuilding? Protagonismo, Disposability, Entitlement and Dependency

Coloniality of Power as Structural Account of International Intervention

(How) Can We Decolonise Intervention?

Notes

References

Index

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