{"id":5595,"date":"2020-12-01T14:40:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T12:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:05:21","slug":"soutenance-de-these-brad-safarik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/soutenance-de-these-brad-safarik\/","title":{"rendered":"Soutenance de th\u00e8se \u2013 Brad Safarik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00a9 Brad Safarik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We are pleased to announce that Brad Safarik \u2014 a former IFAS-Research fellow \u2014 defends his PhD thesis on December 4th<\/strong> at Sciences Po Bordeaux. The thesis, entitled “Strategic Abandon: Angolan peasantry under MPLA domination”, focuses on rural development in Angola since its independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

English ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angola\u2019s colonial past has served as a symbolic lodestar for the government\u2019s plans reimagining the future spaces of the countryside. However, a confluence of historical influences and partisan political aims has weighed heavy on the plans behind revitalizing the sector to the detriment of agricultural production and rural Angolans alike. With the agricultural sector as its backdrop, we attempt to expose how the government\u2019s illiberal peacebuilding model has intentionally used its prolonged \u2018socialist\u2019 presence in the rural economy to stunt private economic initiatives, deprived its peripheral populations of public resources, and only significantly invested in segmented areas where resource control remained within elite channels of influence. This strategy effectively abandoned large swathes of rural communities, though the monopoly hold on the power of resource distribution was broken down with the arrival of Non-State Actors in the countryside. The entrance of this new element allowed for the strengthening of the capacity of endogenous rural agency, exemplified by the formation of Rede Terra<\/em>and its national campaign to influence the latest land law. Domination through abandon has proven an effective strategy of imposing its authority where it remains the weakest, though any real attempt at economic diversification would require a more popular approach. It remains to be seen whether the government is willing to renounce its strategy of domination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KEYWORDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angola, political economy, participatory spaces, social movement, civil society, agrarian issues, rural development<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que Brad Safarik – ancien allocataire de l’IFAS-Recherche – soutient sa th\u00e8se de doctorat le 4 d\u00e9cembre<\/strong> \u00e0 Sciences Po Bordeaux. La th\u00e8se “L’abandon strat\u00e9gique : la paysannerie angolaise sous la domination du MPLA” porte sur le d\u00e9veloppement rural de l’Angola depuis son ind\u00e9pendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESUM\u00c9 fran\u00e7ais<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le pass\u00e9 colonial a longtemps servi comme guide pour le gouvernement angolais et sa vision de r\u00e9imaginer les espaces futurs dans la p\u00e9riph\u00e9rie. Cependant, une confluence d\u2019influences historiques et d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eats politiques a entrav\u00e9 la revitalisation du secteur au d\u00e9triment de la production agricole et des angolais ruraux. Avec le secteur agricole comme toile de fond, nous essayons de montrer comment le mod\u00e8le illib\u00e9ral de la reconstruction de l\u2019\u00e9tat a profit\u00e9 de sa pr\u00e9sence \u2018socialiste\u2019 prolong\u00e9e dans l\u2019\u00e9conomie rurale pour retarder le d\u00e9veloppement des initiatives \u00e9conomiques ind\u00e9pendantes, a priv\u00e9 la paysannerie des ressources publiques, et a investi significativement dans des parties segment\u00e9es o\u00f9 le contr\u00f4le des ressources reste dans les flux d\u2019influence des \u00e9lites. Cette strat\u00e9gie a effectivement abandonn\u00e9 une grande partie des populations rurales, bien que le monopole sur le pouvoir de la distribution des ressources se soit affaibli avec l\u2019arriv\u00e9e des acteurs non-\u00e9tatiques dans la campagne. Ce nouvel \u00e9l\u00e9ment a permis le renforcement de la capacit\u00e9 de pouvoir d\u2019agir (agency<\/em>) endog\u00e8ne rural, exemplifi\u00e9 par la formation de Rede Terra<\/em> et sa campagne nationale pour influencer la derni\u00e8re loi de la terre. La domination via l\u2019abandon s\u2019av\u00e8re une strat\u00e9gie efficace pour imposer son autorit\u00e9 o\u00f9 elle est la plus faible. Cependant, une intention v\u00e9ritable de diversification \u00e9conomique exigerait une approche plus populaire. Il reste \u00e0 savoir si le gouvernement est dispos\u00e9 \u00e0 renoncer \u00e0 sa strat\u00e9gie de domination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MOTS-CL\u00c9S<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angola, \u00e9conomie politique, espaces participatives, mouvement social, soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile, question(s) agraire(s), d\u00e9veloppement rural<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are pleased to announce that Brad Safarik \u2014 a former IFAS-Research fellow \u2014 defends his PhD thesis on December 4th at Sciences Po Bordeaux. The thesis, entitled “Strategic Abandon: Angolan peasantry under MPLA domination”, focuses on rural development in Angola since its independence. English ABSTRACT Angola\u2019s colonial past has served as a symbolic lodestar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5601,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}