Zimbabwe's Fight To The Finish
Author: Moore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1317846982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Zimbabwe's Fight to the Finish
Author: John Louis Moore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK7.3 The Outbreak of Socioeconomic Stress in the 1990s: Selected Evidence from Chitungwiza
Making History in Mugabe's Zimbabwe
Author: Blessing-Miles Tendi
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9783039119899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe crisis that has engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000 is not simply a struggle against dictatorship. It is also a struggle over ideas and deep-seated historical issues, still unresolved from the independence process, that both Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF regime and Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC are vying first to define and then to address. This book traces the role of politicians and public intellectuals in media, civil society and the academy in producing and disseminating a politically usable historical narrative concerning ideas about patriotism, race, land, human rights and sovereignty. It raises pressing questions about the role of contemporary African intellectuals in the making of democratic societies. In so doing the book adds a new and rich dimension to the study of African politics, which is often diluted by the neglect of ideas.
Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe
Author: Obert Bernard Mlambo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-06-16
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1350291870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this highly original book, Obert Bernard Mlambo offers a comparative and critical examination of the relationship between military veterans and land expropriation in the client-army of the first-century BC Roman Republic and veterans of the Zimbabwean liberation war. The study centres on the body of the soldier, the cultural production of images and representations of gender which advance theoretical discussions around war, masculinity and violence. Mlambo employs a transcultural comparative approach based on a persistent factor found in both societies: land expropriation. Often articulated in a framework of patriarchy, land appropriation takes place in the context of war-shaped masculinities. This book fosters a deeper understanding of social processes, adding an important new perspective to the study of military violence, and paying attention to veterans' claims for rewards and compensation. These claims are developed in the context of war and its direct consequences, namely expropriation, confiscation and violence. Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe contributes to current efforts to decolonise knowledge construction by revealing that a non-Western perspective can broaden our understanding of veterans, war, violence, land and gender in classical culture.
These Bones Will Rise Again
Author: Panashe Chigumadzi
Publisher: Mood Indigo
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781999683306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are the right questions to ask when seeking out the spirit of a nation? In November, 2017, the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. Their goal, to restore the legacy of Chimurenga, the liberation struggle, and wrest their country back from more than 30 years of Robert Mugabe's rule. In an essay that combines bold reportage, memoir, and critical analysis, Zimbabwean novelist and journalist Panashe Chigumadzi reflects on the "coup that was not a coup," the telling of history and manipulation of time and the ancestral spirts of two women--her own grandmother and Mbuya Nehanda, the grandmother of the nation.
Development in Difficult Sociopolitical Contexts
Author: A. Ware
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1137347635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited volume explores development in the so-called 'fragile', 'failed' and 'pariah' states. It examines the literature on both fragile states and their development, and offers eleven case studies on countries ranking in the 'very high alert' and 'very high warning' categories in the Fund for Peace Failed States Index.
The Messianic Feeding of the Masses
Author: Francis Machingura
Publisher: University of Bamberg Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 3863090640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLand and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa
Author: James Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-01-13
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1135844011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy employing a range of critical perspectives—cultural materialist, feminist and ecocritical— Graham investigates the relation between land and nationalism in South African and Zimbabwean fiction from the 1960s to the present. This study discusses a wide range of writing including novels by Coetzee, Gordimer, Head, Hove, and Vera.
The Struggle Continues
Author: David Coltart
Publisher: Jacana Media
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781431423187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is an authoritative work, spanning the last 60 years of Zimbabwe's history, told from the unique perspective of a first-hand witnesss. Reflecting his career initially as a human rights lawyer in Bulawayo and later, from 2000, as a member of Parliament for the MDC opposition party, Coltart's personal narrative in compelling and his scope broad. ... Coltart throws new light on the shaping and undoing of a country, from the obstinate racism of Ian Smith that provoked Rhodesia's UDI from Britain in 1965, the civil war of the 1970s which brought independence and hopeful democracy to a scarred nation, the Gukurahundi genocide of the 1980s and the terror of the Fifth Brigade, to Mugabe's war on white farmers and the urban poor, and seemingly unshakeable grip on power."--Back cover.
Political Development
Author: Damien Kingsbury
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-08-07
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 1134143672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book fills a growing gap in the literature on international development by addressing the debates about good governance and institution-building within the context of political development. Political Development returns the key issues of human rights and democratization to the centre of the development debate and offers the reader an alternative to the conventional approach to, and definition of, the idea of ‘development’. Discussing political development in its broadest context, it includes chapters on democracy, institution-building, the state, state failure, nation, human rights and political violence. Damien Kingsbury, a leading expert on development and Southeast Asia, argues that ‘good governance’, in its common usage, is too narrowly defined and that good governance is not just about ensuring the integrity of a state’s financial arrangements, but that it goes to the core social and political issues of transparency and accountability, implying a range of social structures defined as ‘institutions’. Providing new insights into political development, this comprehensive text can be used on advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in international development, comparative politics, political theory and international relations.
