INTELECTUAIS ORGÂNICOS E LEGITIMAÇÃO DO ESTADO NO MOÇAMBIQUE PÓS-INDEPENDÊNCIA: O CASO DO CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AFRICANOS (1975-1985)
Using the Center for African Studies (CAS) at Eduardo Mondlane University as an example, this article analyzes the social conditions of knowledge production and legitimization of the post-independence Mozambican State, during the period of “socialist transition”. The thesis of the article is that th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal da Bahia - Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Afro-Ásia |
| Online Access: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=77028754001 |
| Summary: | Using the Center for African Studies (CAS) at Eduardo Mondlane University as an example, this article analyzes the social conditions of knowledge production and legitimization of the post-independence Mozambican State, during the period of “socialist transition”. The thesis of the article is that the processes of knowledge production in a context of national state-building generated dynamics that challenged the assumptions on which the CAS should have produced social science. For example, in producing a type of research program that not only took into account their function as policy-oriented research, but also in identifying and questioning the very process of scientific production. These inter-relationships between knowledge production and legitimization of the state, could then explain not only the specificities of the CAS, but also the emergence of a new form of socio-scientific questioning in post-independence Mozambique. |
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| ISSN: | 0002-0591 1981-1411 |