Gramsci in Africa: The Relevance of Gramscian Concept to a History of Mozambique

Abstract

The aim of this project is the development of a history of Mozambique encompassing what I deem its modern ‘period of struggle’ from the 1940s through to the mid-1990s, taking into account the complex interactions of local, national, regional and global dynamics. As a history, this project will be empirically grounded in historical and ethnographic details which have a strong evidential basis, but I also aim to interpret this history through a Marxist theoretical framework, and particularly to utilise Gramscian categories of analysis to illuminate processes working at these ascending scales. This paper is essentially a prospectus concerning the viability of applying a Gramscian framework to the analysis of Mozambican history – a combination that I believe will be effective and enlightening.

RAS ID

19084

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Date of Publication

1-1-2014

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Arts

School

School of Communication and Arts

Copyright

free_to_read

Publisher

AFSAAP

Comments

Robinson, D. A. (2014). Gramsci in Africa: The Relevance of Gramscian Concept to a History of Mozambique. Proceedings of African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Annual Conference. (pp. 10p.). Murdoch University, Perth. AFSAAP. Available here

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