INTELECTUAIS ORGÂNICOS E LEGITIMAÇÃO DO ESTADO NO MOÇAMBIQUE PÓS-INDEPENDÊNCIA: O CASO DO CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AFRICANOS (1975-1985)

• Main Author: Carlos Fernandes
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal da Bahia - Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais 2013-01-01
• Series: Afro-Ásia
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=77028754001

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.