People's Spaces and State Spaces: Land and Governance in Mozambique
An advisor and consultant in Mozambique rural communities for nine years, Rosemary Galli combines her considerable insight into Mozambique with her analysis of social history and government in this fascinating new work. Peoples' Space and State Spaces deftly traces the origins of four rural communities in Mozambique and discusses how their development was truncated by local labor demands during both colonial and post-colonial times. These communities' attempts to govern their land, control...
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Based on the detailed examination of the history of four Mozambican rural communities and on the experience of nine years working in the country, Galli shows the capacity of the rural societies to govern the land they occupy, to control the basic aspects of their communal life and to transform their livelihoods in reponse to market opportunities across the last several hundred years and contrasts this with the attempts of those who grabbed the land, displaced its people, and then sought to remedy the consequences through centralized planning. Part Two of the book casts light upon post civil war efforts to bring governmental and rurla society into a more harmonious relationship and offers its own strategy for reanimating local life.
List of MapsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Pt. 1Organizing Rural Space15Ch. 1In the Shadow of Unango Mountain21Ch. 2Gorongosa: Mountain Rebels51Ch. 3Mossurize: Gungunhana's Men77Ch. 4Matutuine: Living with the Elephants105Ch. 5Resettlement, 1995-1999131Pt. 2Creating Democratic Spaces153Ch. 6Governing Mozambique155Ch. 7INDER and Participatory Planning169Ch. 8Decentralized Planning: Various Donor Approaches in the Late 1990s191Ch. 9Decentralized Planning: The View from the Field205Ch. 10From Participatory Planning to Empowerment217Ch. 11Land and Power229Epilogue255Appendix267Bibliography273Index299About the Author315
\ H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews OnlineRosemary Galli's Peoples' Spaces and State Spaces is an interesting book that raises important questions for the present and future of Mozambique and its people.\ \ \ \ \ African Geopolitics...the result of a many years work on the ground by a specialist in rural sociology and other disciplines that have an impact on village communities which she helped to self-develop. This is more than a book of erudition, of imprecations or claims, this is a rehabilitation of a sacrificed peasant world.\ \ \ H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews OnlineRosemary Galli's Peoples' Spaces and State Spaces is an interesting book that raises important questions for the present and future of Mozambique and its people.\ \ \ \ \ Bernhard WeimerRosemary E. Galli's well-researched book represents a compassionate plea for Mozambique's rural poor - the majority of the country's population. With circumspection and in-depth knowledge she makes the case for their empowerment, inter alia, through democratic decentralization and organization at grass-root level around key issues: land, credit, and marketing. The book is a most timely and necessary contribution to the poverty reduction discussion in Mozambique, which tends to sideline one key player: the rural community.\ \
