The Morality of Revolution - Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist

This book foregrounds the contradictions between Frelimo’s socialist ambitions and the reality of its carceral regimen. Rather than rehabilitative institutions, the party’s camps were spaces of social abandonment where detainees suffered at the hands of overseers and endured wretched conditions in remote rural sites.

About the author

Benedito Luís Machava is an assistant professor of African history at Yale University, where his teaching and research interests include colonial and postcolonial Africa, Lusophone Africa, liberation struggles, decolonization, nation-state building, and socialism in Africa.

Summary

This book foregrounds the contradictions between Frelimo’s socialist ambitions and the reality of its carceral regimen. Rather than rehabilitative institutions, the party’s camps were spaces of social abandonment where detainees suffered at the hands of overseers and endured wretched conditions in remote rural sites.

Product details

• Authors: Benedito Lufs Machava, Benedito Luis Machava
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2024
• EAN: 9780821425824
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2582-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: New African Histories
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas