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Accounting for disaster: memories of war in Mozambique

Wie es zu Katastrophen kommt: Kriegserinnerungen in Mosambik
[journal article]

Macamo, Elisio

Abstract

'Dieser Beitrag versucht, über die Beschreibung und Analyse von Erinnerungen an den Bürgerkrieg in Mosambik zum Verständnis des Begriffs der Katastrophe beizutragen. Nach Ansicht des Autors werden Katastrophen nicht durch Extremereignisse als solche konstituiert. Diese werden erst zu einer Katastrop... view more

'Dieser Beitrag versucht, über die Beschreibung und Analyse von Erinnerungen an den Bürgerkrieg in Mosambik zum Verständnis des Begriffs der Katastrophe beizutragen. Nach Ansicht des Autors werden Katastrophen nicht durch Extremereignisse als solche konstituiert. Diese werden erst zu einer Katastrophe durch die Art und Weise, wie sie den gewohnten Verlauf des Alltagslebens - verstanden im phänomenologischen Sinn einer nicht hinterfragten, vertrauten Lebenswelt - zerstören. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse basieren auf Forschungen unter Kriegsflüchtlingen in Mosambik, in der Nähe einer Provinzhauptstadt im Süden des Landes. Zur Analyse der Interviews wurden konversationsanalytische Verfahren angewandt; diese erlauben ein Verständnis des Alltags als praktische Errungenschaft von Individuen.' (Autorenreferat)... view less


'This paper seeks to understand the notion of disaster through the description and analysis of memories of a civil war in Mozambique. The paper claims that extreme events as such do not constitute disaster. Rather, it is the way in which they disrupt everyday life, understood in the phenomenological... view more

'This paper seeks to understand the notion of disaster through the description and analysis of memories of a civil war in Mozambique. The paper claims that extreme events as such do not constitute disaster. Rather, it is the way in which they disrupt everyday life, understood in the phenomenological sense of a taken for granted world, that may turn them into a disaster. The findings are based on research carried out in Mozambique among war refugees on the periphery of a major town in the south of the country. The interviews are analysed using techniques drawn from conversational analysis to recover the sense in which everyday life is a practical accomplishment of individuals.' (author's abstract)|... view less

Keywords
disaster; civil war; Africa; Mozambique; everyday life; Southern Africa; refugee; Africa South of the Sahara; developing country

Classification
Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy

Method
qualitative empirical; descriptive study; empirical

Document language
English

Publication Year
2006

Page/Pages
p. 199-219

Journal
Afrika Spectrum, 41 (2006) 2

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works


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