The Decolonisation Of Zimbabwe

Author : J. L. Fisher
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921666155

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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 : M. Tamarkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136288012

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The Making of Zimbabwe by M. Tamarkin Pdf

First published in 1990. This volume is essentially a study in decolonization. The approach of the author is of a conflict resolution process taken from the perspective of 1974 as the chosen point. Following the decolonization of the Portuguese colonial empire, the uniqueness of the decolonization of Rhodesia became more apparent and the conflict began to realize its full potential. The author has taken three analytical concepts- the goals' continuum, the strategic options' continuum and the interaction within and between the three levels of the conflict system.

Author : Kate Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1011389104

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The Decolonisation of Zimbabwe by Kate Law Pdf

Author : J.L. Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1401242036

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Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles: The Decolonisation of White Identity in Zimbabwe 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 relationship with 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 : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367663732

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The Decolonisation of Zimbabwe by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Rhodesia's illegal Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965 is an act that not only shaped regional politics but also had a profound effect on Britain's attempt to retreat from its empire. This edited collection brings together leading voices in the field, whose contributions - on the role of finance, 'big business', and the regional and international actors involved in the country's negotiated independence - update long-held historiographical wisdoms, signalling a revival in economic and diplomatic explanations for the country's decolonisation. In particular, they shed fresh light on the role(s) played in the decolonisation of Zimbabwe by economic (private business) and political (liberation movements, Western and Southern African governments) actors that until now have been studied with very limited access to primary sources. As scholarship on Zimbabwe is currently dominated by studies that seek to understand the 'crisis' in which the country has recently found itself, this collection acts as a clarion call that reinforces the importance of studies of earlier historical processes. In doing so, the book provides a more nuanced understanding of the continuities and discontinuities between Zimbabwe's colonial and postcolonial history, and examines the roles played by external governments and individuals in the decolonisation of Zimbabwe. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Author : M. Tamarkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:859652060

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The Making of Zimbabwe by M. Tamarkin Pdf

Author : Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009281706

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Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe by Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia Pdf

Author : Munyaradzi Manyanga,Shadreck Chirikure
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956762453

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Archives, Objects, Places and Landscapes by Munyaradzi Manyanga,Shadreck Chirikure Pdf

Dissatisfaction has matured in Africa and elsewhere around the fact that often, the dominant frameworks for interpreting the continents past are not rooted on the continents value system and philosophy. This creates knowledge that does not make sense especially to local communities. The big question therefore is can Africans develop theories that can contribute towards the interpretation of the African past, using their own experiences? Framed within a concept revision substrate, the collection of papers in this thought provoking volume argues for concept revision as a step towards decolonizing knowledge in the post-colony. The various papers powerfully expose that cleansed knowledge is not only locally relevant: it is also locally accessible and globally understandable.

Author : David Kenrick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.

Author : Kangira, Jairos,Nhemachena, Artwell
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956550319

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Displacement, Elimination and Replacement of Indigenous People by Kangira, Jairos,Nhemachena, Artwell Pdf

Colonial scholars have taken immense pleasure in portraying Africans as possessed by spirits but as lacking possession and ownership of their resources, including land. Erroneously deemed to be thoroughly spiritually possessed but lacking senses of material possession and ownership of resources, Africans have been consistently dispossessed and displaced from the era of enslavement, through colonialism, to the neocolonial era. Delving into the historiography of dispossession and displacement on the continent of Africa, and in particular in Zimbabwe, this book also tackles contemporary forms of dispossession and displacement manifesting in the ongoing transnational corporations land grabs in Africa, wherein African peasants continue to be dispossessed and displaced. Focusing on the topical issues around dispossession and repossession of land, and the attendant displacements in contemporary Zimbabwe, the book theorises displacements from a decolonial Pan-Africanist perspective and it also unpacks various forms of displacements – corporeal, noncorporeal, cognitive, spiritual, genealogical and linguistic displacements, among others. The book is an excellent read for scholars from a variety of disciplines such as Geography, Sociology, Social Anthropology, History, Linguistics, Development Studies, Science and technology Studies, Jurisprudence and Social Theory, Law and Philosophy. The book also offers intellectual grit for policy makers and implementers, civil society organisations including activists as well as thinkers interested in decolonisation and transformation.

Author : Austin Mutandwa Chakaodza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Zimbabwe
ISBN : OCLC:940255399

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Zimbabwe: the politics and diplomacy of decolonisation (1974-1980) by Austin Mutandwa Chakaodza Pdf

Author : Kate Law
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429670640

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The Decolonisation of Zimbabwe by Kate Law Pdf

Rhodesia’s illegal Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965 is an act that not only shaped regional politics but also had a profound effect on Britain’s attempt to retreat from its empire. This edited collection brings together leading voices in the field, whose contributions – on the role of finance, ‘big business’, and the regional and international actors involved in the country’s negotiated independence – update long-held historiographical wisdoms, signalling a revival in economic and diplomatic explanations for the country’s decolonisation. In particular, they shed fresh light on the role(s) played in the decolonisation of Zimbabwe by economic (private business) and political (liberation movements, Western and Southern African governments) actors that until now have been studied with very limited access to primary sources. As scholarship on Zimbabwe is currently dominated by studies that seek to understand the ‘crisis’ in which the country has recently found itself, this collection acts as a clarion call that reinforces the importance of studies of earlier historical processes. In doing so, the book provides a more nuanced understanding of the continuities and discontinuities between Zimbabwe’s colonial and postcolonial history, and examines the roles played by external governments and individuals in the decolonisation of Zimbabwe. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Author : Luise White
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Timothy Scarnecchia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 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"--