TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bunk, Bettina
T1  - The dynamics of donor and domestic elite interaction in Mozambique
BT  - formal decentralisation and informal power structures
JF  - Conflict, Security & Development
N2  - This paper analyses the interaction of domestic political elites and external donors against the backdrop of Mozambique’s decentralisation process. The empirical research at national and local levels supports the hypothesis that informal power structures influence the dynamics of this interaction. Consequently, this contributes to an outcome of externally induced democratisation different to what was intended by external actors. The decentralisation process has been utilised by ruling domestic elites for political purposes. Donors have rather focused on the technical side and ignored this informal dimension. By analysing the diverging objectives and perceptions of external and internal actors, as well as the instrumentalisation of formal democratic structures, it becomes clear, that the ‘informal has to be seen as normal’. At a theoretical level, the analysis contributes to elite-oriented approaches of post-conflict democratisation by adding ‘the informal’ as an additional factor for the dynamics of external-internal interaction. At a policy level, external actors need to take more into account informal power structures and their ambivalence for state-building and democratisation.
KW  - Decentralisation
KW  - democratisation
KW  - donors
KW  - elites
KW  - informal
KW  - interaction
KW  - legitimation
KW  - Mozambique
KW  - power
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2018.1483555
SN  - 1467-8802
SN  - 1478-1174
VL  - 18
IS  - 4
SP  - 321
EP  - 346
PB  - Routledge
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Schenck, Marcia C.
T1  - Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World
BT  - Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany
T3  - Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
N2  - This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy. This book draws on more than 260 life history interviews and uncovers complex and contradictory experiences and transnational encounters. What emerges is a series of dualities that exist side by side in the memories of the former migrants: the state and the individual, work and consumption, integration and exclusion, loss and gain, and the past in the past and the past in the present and future. By uncovering these dualities, the book explores the lives of African migrants moving between the Third and Second worlds. Devoted to the memories of worker-trainees, this transnational study comes at a time when historians are uncovering the many varied, complicated, and important connections within the global socialist world.
KW  - Open access
KW  - Third World
KW  - Second World
KW  - East Germany
KW  - Angola
KW  - Mozambique
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Labor Migration
Y1  - 2022
SN  - 978-3-031-06778-5
SN  - 978-3-031-06776-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06776-1
SN  - 2634-6273
SN  - 2634-6281
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - Cham
ER  -