Modernization dreams, Lusotropical promises : : a global studies perspective on Brazil-Mozambique development discourse / / by Ana Beatriz Ribeiro.

• Superior document: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; Volume 23
• VerfasserIn: Ribeiro, Ana Beatriz,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; Volume 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, Ana Beatriz Ribeiro grew up with the image that to be developed was to be as European as possible. However, as a researcher in Europe during her co...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Images, Figures and Maps
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Introduction: The “dreams” and the “promises”
• Genesis
• History
• Definitions
• Layout
• 1 Opinion-makers and the Making of Cooperation
• 1.1 Brazil-Mozambique Studies: What’s Missing?
• 1.2 Builders and Subjects of Lusofonia
• 1.3 Creating and Sculpting the Lusotropical Group
• 1.4 The Discursive Struggle against Lusotropicalism
• 2 (Luso)tropical Development as Policy in Brazil
• 2.1 Between the Old Empire and Nascent States
• 2.2 Africa in Brazil’s “Independent Foreign Policy”
• 2.3 Pragmatism as a Rapprochement Instrument
• 2.4 Channeling Slavery-era Bonds into Politics
• 3 Diplomats, Technocrats and Reality Checks
• 3.1 A Gap between “promises” and Actions?
• 3.2 Africa as Kindred Continent and Priority
• 3.3 “Demand-driven” Cooperation in Mozambique
• 3.4 Technical Cooperation versus Profit-seeking?
• 4 Aid, Agency and Extraction in Mozambique
• 4.1 From “donor darling” to Donor and Investor
• 4.2 From Colonial Endeavor to National Enterprise
• 4.3 History and Diplomacy of Moatize Mining
• 4.4 Mines Spill into Farms, Spill into Factories
• 5 Dependency, Development and Liberalization
• 5.1 Constructing Mozambique’s Modernization
• 5.2 A “South-South” Alliance in Public Health
• 5.2.1 Turning the smm Factory into Business
• 5.2.2 Growing Local Industry or Dependency?
• 5.3 A Triangular Alliance in Agricultural Production
• 5.4 The Uncertain Outlook of ProSavana Ambitions
• 6 The Enduring Legacy of Lusotropicalism
• 6.1 Post-colonial Self-affirmation and CPLP
• 6.2 Takes on 21st century “lusophone” Leadership
• 6.3 Brazil Memories of a Mozambican in Lisbon
• Conclusion
• Overarching Reflections and Findings
• Further Measuring the “dreams” and “promises”
• Bibliography
• Index.