{"product_id":"the-morality-of-revolution-reeducation-camps-and-the-politics-of-punishment-in-socialist-mozambique-1968-1990-hardback-9780821425824","title":"The Morality of Revolution; Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990 (Hardback) 9780821425824","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Morality of Revolution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBenedito Luís Machava (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821425824\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 2 maps, 31 figures - 2 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.573 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Morality of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is a nuanced, careful, and passionate exploration of the little-known history of Mozambique’s reeducation camps. It is elegantly written and cogently argued. Possibly the most important book on Mozambican history written in the last two decades, this study will be of interest to scholars of revolutionary violence and reeducation camps globally.\u003c\/p\u003e - Paolo Israel, author of In Step with the Times: Mapiko Masquerades of Mozambique \u003cp\u003eBenedito Luís Machava gives us far more than a history of Frelimo’s reeducation camps, an essential and almost unknown chapter in the history of independence-era Mozambique. \u003ci\u003eThe Morality of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e offers incisive analysis of nation-building amidst socialist revolution, a stark example of how the effort to build a new society inevitably involved a struggle over the future direction of the polity.\u003c\/p\u003e - Eric Allina, author of Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique \u003cp\u003eThis history of Mozambique’s do-it-mostly-yourself reeducation camps is a fascinating account of mass suspicion, mass incarceration, and then mass abandonment amid one of Africa’s most radical socialist revolutions. How did urban “anti-socials” survive remote rural dumping grounds? To tell the story, Benedito Luís Machava finds sources most scholars wouldn’t have dreamed could be found.\u003c\/p\u003e - David Morton, author of Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique \u003cp\u003eBenedito Machava’s \u003ci\u003eThe Morality of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is meticulously researched and carefully argued. It is a history of decolonization that shows that Frelimo sought to form the moral backbone of the national body politic to manifest the revolution. Machava finds the beginnings of moral practices and punishments in the colonial period and liberation struggle, demonstrating that independence was not a clean slate. Frelimo innovated and reimagined, often to very destructive ends.\u003c\/p\u003e - Marissa J. Moorman, author of Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Morality of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first historical examination of urban cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. The book presents the camps as the template for independent Mozambique’s punitive society under Frelimo. Individuals who transgressed the law and socialist normative codes of behavior were targeted by the revolutionary party, which obsessively pursued putative wrongdoers in an effort to build a new society from the ruins of Portuguese colonialism. Benedito Luís Machava argues that the socialist experiment, while ushering in an era of economic development and social progress, sought also to remake the moral fabric of Mozambican society. At play was the contradictory combination of high modernist, socialist aspirations and conservative anxieties rooted in a moralist reading of society.\u003cbr\u003e From its inception in 1974 to its demise in the late 1980s, the reeducation program was a do-it-yourself enterprise. The Frelimo government, unable to finance and support the carceral regime, expected its agents and the detainees to carry out the ambitious project on their own. Without material and human resources to run the program, state officials compelled detainees to build their own detention facilities; to grow their own food; to enforce their own political education; and in many ways, to oversee their own incarceration. The state’s incapacity to translate the salvationist ideas of reeducation into planned action-a general feature of the socialist experiment in Mozambique-produced spaces of social neglect and castigation that negatively affected both the inmates and the personnel tasked with disciplining and reeducating them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChapter 1 \u003c\/i\u003eRevolutionary Morality and the Struggle for Mozambique, 1968–1974\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChapter 2 \u003c\/i\u003ePolitical Transition and the Birth of the Reeducation Pipeline, 1974–1976\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChapter 3 \u003c\/i\u003e“These Moral Deserters Must Be Reeducated” : \u003ci\u003ePolitical Consolidation, Development, and the Punitive State, 1977–1983\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChapter 4 \u003c\/i\u003eVigilante Citizenship and the Politics of Denunciation, 1974–1984\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChapter 5 \u003c\/i\u003eReeducation Camps, Austerity, and the Carceral Regime: \u003ci\u003eA Portrait from Niassa \u003c\/i\u003e142 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChapter 6 \u003c\/i\u003eAbandonment and Everyday Life in Reeducation Camps, 1974–1982\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChapter 7 \u003c\/i\u003eWretchedness and Survival during Operação Produção and the Civil War, 1983–1989\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574555472152,"sku":"9780821425824","price":55.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-morality-of-revolution-reeducation-camps-and-the-politics-of-punishment-in-socialist-mozambique-1968-1990-hardback-9780821425824","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}