Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique

By demonstrating that Western conceptions of 'civil society' have provided the framework for interpreting societies in the Global South <i>Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique</i>argues that it is only through a critical deconstruction of these concepts that we can start to re-balance global power relationships both in academic discourse and in development practices.<br/><i><br/></i>Examining the exclusionary discourses framing the support for Western-type NGOs in the development discourse - often to the exclusion of local social actors - this book dissects mainstream contemporary ideas about 'civil society' and finds a new means by which to identify local forms of social action often based in traditional structures and spiritual discourses. <br/><br/>Outlining new conceptual ideas for an alternative framing of Mozambique's 'civil society' Kleibl proposes a series of fresh theoretical issues and questions alongside empirical research moving towards a series of new policy and practice arguments for rethinking and decolonizing civil society in the Global South.