Race And Diplomacy In Zimbabwe

Author : Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009281669

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Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe by Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia Pdf

The 'Rhodesian crisis' of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early-1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold War historical transformations brought on by, among other things, African decolonization in the 1960s; the failure of American power in Vietnam and the rise of Third World political power. In this history of the diplomacy of decolonization in Zimbabwe, Timothy Scarnecchia examines the rivalry between Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, and shows how both leaders took advantage of Cold War racialized thinking about what Zimbabwe should be. Based on a wealth of archival source materials, Scarnecchia uncovers how foreign relations bureaucracies in the US, UK, and South Africa created a Cold War 'race state' notion of Zimbabwe that permitted them to rationalize Mugabe's state crimes in return for Cold War loyalty to Western powers. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009281706

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Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe by Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia Pdf

Author : Timothy Scarnecchia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1009053868

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Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe by Timothy Scarnecchia Pdf

"This book examines the archival evidence related to the negotiations around Zimbabwe's decolonialization. The argument concerns the preoccupation with race as the primary way decolonization was negotiated. The first two chapters contextualize how the white settler states of Southern Africa, next two chapters detail the sudden shift in Cold War thinking about Rhodesia caused by the decolonization of Angola and Mozambique in 1975, including US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's negotiations with Front Line State Presidents and South Africans. The Geneva Conference in late 1976 is explored, with attention to the ability of Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo to take advantage of Kissinger's diplomacy. The next chapters look at attempts by the British, Zambians, and Nigerians to negotiate a transfer of power from Ian Smith to the PF. It would take another two years for the British to oversee a transfer of power to Mugabe's ZANU party in April 1980. The final two chapters examine the fallout between Mugabe and Nkomo in the early 1980s, arguing that obsessions with race and ethnic conflict in earlier negotiations enabled the Americans and British to provide Mugabe Cold War cover for state crimes committed against Nkomo's supporters in the Matabeleland and Midland provinces"--

Author : Blessing-Miles Tendi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472890

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The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe by Blessing-Miles Tendi Pdf

An essential biographical record of General Solomon Mujuru, one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics.

Author : George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107190207

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The Struggle Over State Power in Zimbabwe by George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane Pdf

This book examines the role of the law in the constitution and contestation of state power in Zimbabwean history. It is for researchers interested in the history of the state in Southern Africa, as well as those interested in African legal history.

Author : Susanne Verheul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009011790

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Performing Power in Zimbabwe by Susanne Verheul Pdf

Focusing on political trials in Zimbabwe's Magistrates' Courts between 2000 and 2012, Susanne Verheul explores why the judiciary have remained a central site of contestation in post-independence Zimbabwe. Drawing on rich court observations and in-depth interviews, this book foregrounds law's potential to reproduce or transform social and political power through the narrative, material, and sensory dimensions of courtroom performances. Instead of viewing appeals to law as acts of resistance by marginalised orders for inclusion in dominant modes of rule, Susanne Verheul argues that it was not recognition by but of this formal, rule-bound ordering, and the form of citizenship it stood for, that was at stake in performative legal engagements. In this manner, law was much more than a mere instrument. Law was a site in which competing conceptions of political authority were given expression, and in which people's understandings of themselves as citizens were formed and performed.

Author : A. S. Mlambo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107021709

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A History of Zimbabwe by A. S. Mlambo Pdf

Examines Zimbabwe's pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial social, economic and political history and relates historical factors and trends to more recent developments in the country.

Author : Luise White
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226235196

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Unpopular Sovereignty by Luise White Pdf

A truly satisfactory history of Rhodesia, one that takes into account both the African history and that of the whites, has never been written. That is, until now. In this book Luise White highlights the crucial tension between Rhodesia as it imagined itself and Rhodesia as it was imagined outside the country. Using official documents, novels, memoirs, and conversations with participants in the events taking place between 1965, when Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence from Britain, and 1980 when indigenous African rule was established through the creation of the state of Zimbabwe, White reveals that Rhodesians represented their state as a kind of utopian place where white people dared to stand up for themselves and did what needed to be done. It was imagined to be a place vastly better than the decolonized dystopias to its north. In all these representations, race trumped all else including any notion of nation. Outside Rhodesia, on the other hand, it was considered a white supremacist utopia, a country that had taken its own independence rather than let white people live under black rule. Even as Rhodesia edged toward majority rule to end international sanctions and a protracted guerilla war, racialized notions of citizenship persisted. One man, one vote, became the natural logic of "decolonization” of this illegally "independent” minority-ruled renegade state. Voter qualification with its minutia of which income was equivalent to how many years of schooling, and how African incomes or years of schooling could be rendered equivalent to whites’, illustrated the core of ideas about, and experiences of, racial domination. White’s account of the politics of decolonization in this unprecedented historical situation reveals much about the general processes occurring elsewhere on the African continent.

Author : George Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009281652

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Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam by George Roberts Pdf

Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : 9780197674208

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Overcoming the Oppressors by Robert I. Rotberg Pdf

"This book is about southern Africa's long walk to freedom, about the overturning of colonial rule in the northern territories and the dissolution of backs-to-the-wall white settler suzerainty first in what became Zimbabwe and then in South Africa. Chapters on the individual countries detail the stages along their sometimes complicated and tortuous struggle to attain the political New Zion. We learn how and why the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland failed, how and why apartheid eventually collapsed, and exactly how the various components of this heavily white conquered and later white oppressed domain transitioned via diverse fits and starts into today's assemblage of proud, politically-charged, and still mostly fragmented nation-states. But what did the new republics make of their hard won freedoms? That is the subject of more than half of this book. Having liberated themselves successfully, several soon dismantled democratic safeguards, established effective single-party states, closed their economies, deprived citizens of human rights and civil liberties, and exchanged economic progress for varieties of central planning experiments and stunted forms of protected economic endeavors. Only Botswana, of the new entities, embraced full democracy and good governance. The others, even South Africa, at first tightly regimented their economies and attempted severely to limit the degrees of economic freedom and social progress that citizens could enjoy. Corruption prevailed everywhere except Botswana. Today, as the chapters on contemporary southern Africa reveal, most of the southern half of the African continent is returning, if sometimes struggling, to return to the patterns probity and good governance that many countries abandoned in the decades after independence. Now there is a resurgence of high performance, which this book celebrates"--

Author : J. L. Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Decolonization
ISBN : 1921666145

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Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles by J. L. Fisher Pdf

What did the future hold for Rhodesia's white population at the end of a bloody armed conflict fought against settler colonialism? Would there be a place for them in newly independent Zimbabwe? PIONEERS, SETTLERS, ALIENS, EXILES sets out the terms offered by Robert Mugabe in 1980 to whites who opted to stay in the country they thought of as their home. The book traces over the next two decades their changing relationshipwith the country when the post-colonial government revised its symbolic and geographical landscape and reworked codes of membership. Particular attention is paid to colonial memories and white interpellation in the official account of the nation's rebirth and indigene discourses, in view of which their attachment to the place shifted and weakened. As the book describes the whites' trajectory from privileged citizens to persons of disputed membership and contested belonging, it provides valuable background information with regard to the land and governance crises that engulfed Zimbabwe at the start of the twenty-first century.

Author : Brooks Marmon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031255595

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Pan-Africanism Versus Partnership by Brooks Marmon Pdf

This book takes the transnational history of southern Africa’s liberation struggles in an innovative direction. It provides one of the first targeted studies of the manner in which the wider process of African decolonisation shaped the political struggle for control of Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe). It offers an in-depth survey of the repercussions of pan-African developments on national-level political thought amidst one of the most seminal moments of the continent’s history. The book draws on over a year of fieldwork in southern Africa as well as archival collections in the USA and UK to explore the seismic re-alignments that occurred in the white settler dominated territory in southern Africa as self-determination became a widely accepted international principle virtually overnight. In particular, it focuses on the impact of decolonisation struggles and/or independence in Ghana, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Malawi on Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle. In so doing, it also offers new context on the roots of contemporary repression in Zimbabwe.

Author : Chouki El Hamel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107025776

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Black Morocco by Chouki El Hamel Pdf

Chronicles the experiences, identity, agency and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Author : Geert-Hinrich Ahrens
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801885570

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Diplomacy on the Edge by Geert-Hinrich Ahrens Pdf

Ahrens provides the general history of the conflicts and brings the story up through 2004.

Author : David Kenrick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030326982

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Decolonisation, Identity and Nation in Rhodesia, 1964-1979 by David Kenrick Pdf

This book explores concepts of decolonisation, identity, and nation in the white settler society of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) between 1964 and 1979. It considers how white settlers used the past to make claims of authority in the present. It investigates the white Rhodesian state’s attempts to assert its independence from Britain and develop a Rhodesian national identity by changing Rhodesia’s old colonial symbols, and examines how the meaning of these national symbols changed over time. Finally, the book offers insights into the role of race in Rhodesian national identity, showing how portrayals of a ‘timeless’ black population were highly dependent upon circumstance and reflective of white settler anxieties. Using a comparative approach, the book shows parallels between Rhodesia and other settler societies, as well as other post-colonial nation-states and even metropoles, as themes and narratives of decolonisation travelled around the world.