The Political Economy Of Livelihoods In Contemporary Zimbabwe

Author : Kirk Helliker,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe,Sandra Bhatasara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351273220

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The Political Economy of Livelihoods in Contemporary Zimbabwe by Kirk Helliker,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe,Sandra Bhatasara Pdf

Since the introduction of the fast track land reform programme in 2000, Zimbabwe has undergone major economic and political shifts and these have had a profound impact on both urban and rural livelihoods. This book provides rich empirical studies that examine a range of multi-faceted and contested livelihoods within the context of systemic crises. Taking a broad political economy approach, the chapters advance a grounded and in-depth understanding of emerging and shifting livelihood processes, strategies and resilience that foregrounds agency at household level. Highlighting an emergent scholarship amongst young black scholars in Zimbabwe, and providing an understanding of how people and communities respond to socio-economic challenges, this book is an important read for scholars of African political economy, southern African studies and livelihoods.

Author : Suzanne Dansereau,Mario Zamponi
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Zimbabwe
ISBN : 9171065415

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Zimbabwe by Suzanne Dansereau,Mario Zamponi Pdf

The two articles are revised versions of papers presented at the end of May 2004 to a Zimbabwe Conference at the Nordic Africa Institute, which was co-organized by the project "Liberation and Democracy in Southern Africa" (LiDeSA). They highlight current socio-economic aspects of Zimbabwean society. By doing so, they raise relevant issues, yet ones that have tended to be neglected given the almost exclusive concentration on political events. While this is understandable, the articles fill the gap in our knowledge and add insights into important sectors of society. These include information on the Zimbabwean economy and the present constraints of the decline, which together help us to understand the structural legacy that any future government will have to deal with. What is more, the elections in Zimbabwe in 2005 provide an ideal moment to discuss such matters. This Discussion Paper will thereby make a substantive contribution to the analysis of the overall picture in Zimbabwe.

Author : Michael G. Schatzberg
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0275912612

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The Political Economy of Zimbabwe by Michael G. Schatzberg Pdf

This book is a collection of papers designed to analyze and present significant asspects of the political economy of contemporary Zimbabwe. The contributors, all of whom have either conducted field research in Zimbabwe, or are themselves Zimbabwean nationals, are thus uniquely qualified to illuminate present trends in a much publicized and important country.

Author : Lucien van der Walt,Kirk Helliker
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629639574

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Politics at a Distance from the State by Lucien van der Walt,Kirk Helliker Pdf

For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical transformation with capturing state power. The collapse of these statist projects from the 1970s led to a global crisis of left and working-class politics. But crisis has also opened space for rediscovering alternative society-centered, anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, operating at a distance from the state. These have registered important successes in practice, such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, and Rojava in Syria. They have been a key influence on movements from Occupy in United States, to the landless in Latin America, to anti-austerity struggles in Europe and Asia, to urban movements in Africa. Their lineages include anarchism, syndicalism, autonomist Marxism, philosophers like Alain Badiou, and radical popular praxis. This path-breaking volume recovers this understanding of social transformation, long side-lined but now resurgent, like a seed in the soil that keeps breaking through and growing. It provides case studies with reference to South Africa and Zimbabwe, and includes a dossier of key texts from a century of anarchists, syndicalists, insurgent unionists and anti-apartheid activists in South Africa. Originating in an African summit of radical academics, struggle veterans and social movements, the book includes a preface from John Holloway.

Author : George Kararach,Raphael O. Otieno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 0191810444

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Economic Management in a Hyperinflationary Environment by George Kararach,Raphael O. Otieno Pdf

This volume provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the difficulties that the Zimbabwean economy and its population experienced during the crisis which peaked in 2008. It details the suffering and chaos that befell the country with dramatic socio-economic consequences on growth, macroeconomic stability, service delivery, livelihoods, and development.

Author : Henry Moyana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112975177

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The Political Economy of Land in Zimbabwe by Henry Moyana Pdf

Revised, updated and still very relevant, this book focuses on the centrality of the land question, in the study of modern Zimbabwean history. It reviews previously published studies, and introduces new material. The study covers: the genesis of the land segregation legislation in Rhodesia, The Land Apportionment Act, and the economic effects of the Act; land and mass nationalism between 1945 and 1965, the dispossession of the people in Gazaland and the Tangwena people by white settlers; the Lancaster House negotiations, and land reform in the post-independence period. The book further discusses the many theories of racism and segregation propounded by the defenders of the regime, and the rationalisation for white rule and the economic exploitation of people and land.

Author : Ibbo Mandaza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Zimbabwe
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001939102

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Zimbabwe by Ibbo Mandaza Pdf

Focuses on the relationship between the colonial legacy and the pattern of political and socio-economic development in the post- independence era. Analyses structural limitations on development.

Author : Hevina Smith Dashwood
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802082262

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Zimbabwe by Hevina Smith Dashwood Pdf

Dashwood argues that it was the class interests of the ruling elite of Zimbabwethat explains the failure of the government to devise a coherent, socially sensitive development strategy in conjunction with market-based reforms.

Author : Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015011244822

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The Political Economy of Rhodesia by Giovanni Arrighi Pdf

Study of political aspects of the economy of Zimbabwe - covers historical factors (with particular reference to the economic base of southern rhodesia before world war 2 and the political implications thereof), the social structure, capitalistic economic development, foreign investment, social change, the activities of White interest groups, etc. References.

Author : Wale Adebanwi
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847011657

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The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa by Wale Adebanwi Pdf

Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being in modern Africa.

Author : Arthur Jim Patsanza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : UVA:X002018493

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Our Zimbabwe by Arthur Jim Patsanza Pdf

Author : Nedson Pophiwa,Joshua Matanzima,Kirk Helliker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3031321944

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Lived Experiences of Borderland Communities in Zimbabwe by Nedson Pophiwa,Joshua Matanzima,Kirk Helliker Pdf

This book examines the national borders and borderlands of Zimbabwe through the presentation of empirically rich case studies. It delves into the lived experiences, both past and present, of populations residing along the borders between Zimbabwe and its neighbours, i.e., Zambia, Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique. It locates these lived experiences within the political economy of Zimbabwe, and highlights a wide range of themes pertinent to borders, including health, COVID-19, marginalisation, resource access, conservation, human-wildlife conflicts, civil wars, politico-economic crises, border jumping and cross border trade. The borderland communities discussed also include ethnic minorities such as the Tonga, San, Ndau, Shangane, and Kalanga. Overall, the book demonstrates the centrality of borders to the Zimbabwean nation-state and the importance of reading history, politics and society from the borderlands. The book fits into the wider prevailing literature of border and borderlands in Africa and beyond and thus has appeal far beyond Zimbabwe. Its diverse themes also relate to topics covered in multiple disciplines, including history, anthropology, and sociology. Academics, development specialists and policy makers will benefit in different ways from the depth and breadth of the analysis in the book.

Author : Kirk Helliker,Patience Chadambuka,Joshua Matanzima
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030948009

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Livelihoods of Ethnic Minorities in Rural Zimbabwe by Kirk Helliker,Patience Chadambuka,Joshua Matanzima Pdf

The book provides empirically-rich case studies of the lives and livelihoods of marginalised ethnic minorities in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, with a specific focus on diverse rural areas. It demonstrates the dynamic and complex relationships existing between ethnic minorities and livelihoods, and analyses the ways in which projects of belonging (and identity-formation) amongst these ethnic minorities are entangled in their respective livelihood construction projects, and vice versa. The ethnic minorities include those considered indigenous to Zimbabwe, and those often defined as ‘aliens’, including ethnicities with a transnational presence in southern Africa. The ethnicities studied in the book include the following: Chewa, Doma, Tonga, Tshwa San, Shangane, Basotho, Ndau, Hlengwe and Nambya. By studying their livelihoods in particular, this book offers the first full manuscript about ethnic minorities in Zimbabwe. In doing so, it highlights the significance of these ethnic minorities to Zimbabwean history, politics and society.

Author : Kirk Helliker,Sandra Bhatasara,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000341904

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Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe by Kirk Helliker,Sandra Bhatasara,Manase Kudzai Chiweshe Pdf

This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe. Throughout the literature of Zimbabwean studies, a consideration of everyday lives has been limited to informal trading and rarely applied as an analytical framework, despite the importance of understanding crisis-living with reference to the specific character of national crises across the African continent. This edited volume is one of the first in its field to theorise everyday Zimbabwean lives within the context of crisis, with three central themes addressed: urban and rural lives; men, women and HIV; and along and beyond the border. Chapters incorporate topics from child marriage and sexual practices, to climate change and social accountability, encompassing a shift in focus from macro-structures to how farm labourers, students, child-brides and other ordinary people negotiate gender, class and social dynamics within a dominant order. The introductory chapter offers an innovative analytical framing for the empirical chapters which follow, each providing micro-studies based on original qualitative fieldwork by early-career Zimbabwean scholars. Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, anthropology and African Studies more broadly.

Author : Grasian Mkodzongi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000601879

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The Future of Zimbabwe’s Agrarian Sector by Grasian Mkodzongi Pdf

This volume reflects on the recent political developments in Zimbabwe and their current and future impact on the agrarian sector. Utilising new empirical data gathered across Zimbabwe, the contributors shed light on the liberalisation of agricultural policy after Mugabe. Chapters examine how the adoption of neo-liberal orthodoxy in agrarian policy making will affect the new agrarian structure, looking at issues such as productivity, the impact on vulnerable groups, changing land tenure arrangements, joint ventures and land grabbing. Providing a new way of conceptualising Zimbabwe’s agrarian futures, this book will be of interest to researchers, NGOs and policymakers interested in the politics of land and agriculture in Zimbabwe and southern Africa.