Gukurume
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5651 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gukurume |
| APELLIDO | Gukurume |
| FIRMA | GUKURUME |
| AFILIACIONES | Sol Plaatje University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2297-3693 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 125 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Everyday authoritarianism in Zimbabwe
Singing truth to power
Mining-induced displacements and the ontological (in)security of local communities
The article presents the threats to ontological security due to mining-induced displacements in Chiadzwa, Marange. • The article highlights the complex effects of mining-induced displacement of the Chiadzwa people. • The displacement of the Chiadzwa people led to both material and symbolic affective losses which created ontological insecurity. • The displaced Chiadzwa people’s lives became more precarious and vulnerable to shocks due to mining-in…
New Pentecostal urbanities in Harare
At the height of Zimbabwe’s multi-layered crisis, emerged several Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches (PCCs). Led by youthful charismatic ‘prophets’, these PCCs gained significant traction in many urban spaces, especially in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, where they have sought to ‘Pentecostalise’ the cityscape. Public spaces in Harare have become saturated with Pentecostal aesthetics, which include, but are not limited to, church-branded stickers on v…
Youth Politics of Engagement and Resistance
While social media spaces have been explored, including the understanding of how political activism is enacted on social media and how those spaces have become spaces of political engagement and resistance, the question of the present and politically visible youth on social media remains critical in analysing youth as active political subjects. In this paper, we examine the ways in which authoritarian regimes have been challenged by tech-savvy mi…
Shades of party activism
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’
Drawing on fieldwork conducted at a South African University, this qualitative study examines the lived experiences of black foreign students studying and living in South Africa. The study sought to understand the role that Pentecostalism plays in mediating the everyday experiences of black foreign students within and beyond the university campus spaces. A total of 30 student patrons from two Pentecostal churches were purposively sampled for the …
Pentecostalism, ontological (in)security and the everyday lives of international university students in South Africa
The experience and lives of international university students studying and living in Cape Town, South Africa demonstrate the centrality of religiosity, in their case Pentecostalism in adapting to and grappling with existential perturbations wrought in a xenophobic and hostile environment. This article explores the everyday appropriation of Pentecostal religiosity and rituals by international students in navigating uncertainties and everyday anxie…
Policing toxic masculinities and dealing with sexual violence on Zimbabwean University campuses
University campuses are framed as sexualised spaces marked by high sexual risk-taking behaviour and toxic masculinities that often fuel abusive relationships and sexual violence. More often, the most vulnerable groups, to this violence include sexual minorities, girls and students with disabilities. Drawing on qualitative ethnographic research and semi-structured interviews with students and staff from two universities in Zimbabwe, this article e…
Mining-induced displacement and livelihood resilience
Labour Dynamics in Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises (SME s)
Over the past few years, China–Africa engagements have intensified, manifesting in an escalation of Chinese small-scale entrepreneurs investing in African countries. Nevertheless, there is little research on everyday workplace encounters, management styles and labour dynamics in these businesses. This study fills this lacuna by examining labour and management practices in Chinese-owned SME s in Zimbabwe, and how local employees experience and per…
Youth Popular Music, Waithood and Protest
Transactional Relationships Within a University Campus in Zimbabwe
Research on transactional sex and relationships within university spaces is growing. Much of this research focuses on the intergenerational nature and the centrality of sex and money in such relationships. However, little attention has been paid to transactional relationships that do not necessarily involve money and that involve people within the university such as students and nonacademic university workers. As such, there is a dearth of resear…
We Are Not Our Parents’ – beyond Political Transition
The story of South Africa’s liberation struggle, from apartheid to constitutional democracy, is writ large with in-depth contributions from young people. Despite their historical involvement, young people have been noticeably absent from the transitional processes ushering in South Africa’s postapartheid dispensation. Their absence has created a crisis of legitimacy, particularly among those disillusioned young people who are unsentimental about …
Youth and the temporalities of non-violent struggles in Zimbabwe
Youth in fragile and conflict-ridden spaces are often constructed as violent and restless subjects who dismember the social fabric of society. Yet, many young people are using non-violent tactics and strategies to articulate their grievances and frustrations with the state of their economies. Young people in such decaying economies live under precarious and uncertain existential conditions. Drawing on the #ThisFlag movement in Zimbabwe, this arti…
Youth Political Mobilization
In this article, we argue that the “making” and deployment of political violence can be construed as hard work, in which political elites mobilize those from below to sustain their positions through the mobilization and doing of violence against perceived opposition political parties and or individuals. The article examines the ways in which former President Robert Mugabe instrumentalized his political relationship with his clients as a tool of p…
Ruling Party Patronage, Brokerage, and Contestations at Urban Markets in Harare
This study contributes to debates on varieties of clientelism through an analysis of brokerage and ruling party patronage at urban markets in Harare, Zimbabwe. Urban markets are sites of contestation between the opposition-dominated city council and actors aligned with the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union—Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Based on qualitative case study research at two designated markets, the article demonstrates how ru…
Post-displacement livelihoods in mining communities
Politics, (Re)Possession and Resurgence of Student Protests in South African Universities
In post-apartheid South Africa, one of the central analytical questions is to do with the continuity of protests, in particular student movement protests that are highly driven by social, economic and political conditions in the present. In a social and political context of student protests, student movement is considered a threat to the state and a target for state violence. In this paper, we assert that student movement in contemporary South Af…
We Are Soldiers in God's Army
Spiritual warfare is an important part of everyday life and rituals in Pentecostal churches in Africa and beyond. In Pentecostal parlance, the world is constructed and construed as a battleground between born-again Christians and Satanic forces. This article examines the ways in which Pentecostal Charismatic Churches in Southern Africa adopt and utilise military metaphors and trope in their everyday rituals and practices of spiritual warfare. Dra…
Forced displacements in mining communities
The Chiadzwa diamonds attracted widespread attention due to human rights violations and illegal smuggling. When diamonds were discovered in 2006, thousands of artisanal miners descended on the diamond fields. In response, the government unleashed the army and police in brutal crackdowns to drive artisanal miners off the diamond fields. This militarisation of diamond fields and extraction was followed by forced displacement of the Chiadzwa people.…
Decolonising sociology
The decolonisation of sociology continues to be characterised by debates on what it constitutes, in both theory and practice. While such debates are centred on a 'radical decolonisation', we argue that the decolonisation of sociological curricula is never final, but should be driven by and with 'hybridised' thinking on the knowledge which underpins the discipline. While the canonical thinking in sociology has come under serious critique, there ou…
Mobile Money and the (Un)Making of Social Relations in Chivi, Zimbabwe
The rapid expansion of mobile money technologies in Zimbabwe has substantially altered the monetary ecology and the payment landscape. This article examines the ways in which the adoption, usage and meanings attached to mobile money (re)configure social relationships in the rural community of Chivi. We demonstrate the ways in which mobile money technologies mediate the politics of everyday social relations and shape local social relations in prof…
Navigating the crisis
This article deploys the concept of kujingirisa to unpack the lived experiences of university students during a period of unprecedented socio-economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe. I particularly examine the existential challenges faced by the students and how they creatively navigated everyday constraints on campus. Central to this article are the multiple ways through which students negotiated and navigated the country’s multi-layered crisi…
Chinese migrants and the politics of everyday life in Zimbabwe
While there has been a rapid migration of Chinese nationals to Zimbabwe following the ‘Look East’ policy, there has been little research on and about how the Chinese migrants relate and interact with locals and how they negotiate their social identities thereof. This paper examines Chinese small-scale traders in Harare, in particular their mundane forms of the everyday, with specific focus on their social and business practices, social relations …
Surveillance, Spying and Disciplining the University
This article examines the deployment of government spies and state security agents on a university campus in Zimbabwe and the implications this has on knowledge production at the university. The campus is presented as a socio-political space in which everyday political struggles are fought. I argue that surveillance is an intractable part of the rhythms of everyday life on campus, and a very specific form of 'bio-power', 'biopolitics' and violenc…
Livelihood resilience in a hyperinflationary environment
At the zenith of Zimbabwe’s protracted politico-economic crises around 2007, which resulted in record hyperinflation, the majority of ordinary people confronted monumental livelihood challenges and complex reconfigurations of social and economic relationships. Many people could hardly sustain themselves from their meagre salaries from formal employment. In spite of this seemingly insurmountable livelihood catastrophe, people did not remain passiv…
Youth Political Mobilization
In this article, we argue that the “making” and deployment of political violence can be construed as hard work, in which political elites mobilize those from below to sustain their positions through the mobilization and doing of violence against perceived opposition political parties and or individuals. The article examines the ways in which former President Robert Mugabe instrumentalized his political relationship with his clients as a tool of p…
Navigating Precarious Livelihoods
Since the late 1990s, Zimbabwe has experienced a protracted socioeconomic and political crisis. This crisis was marked by unprecedented unemployment rates, company closures, retrenchments, and rapid informalisation. In the face of employment uncertainties, many youth joined the burgeoning small and medium enterprises (SME) sector. This article explores private SME growth in Harare and shows how it enables young people to navigate the unemployment…
Pentecostalism, ontological (in)security and the everyday lives of international university students in South Africa
The experience and lives of international university students studying and living in Cape Town, South Africa demonstrate the centrality of religiosity, in their case Pentecostalism in adapting to and grappling with existential perturbations wrought in a xenophobic and hostile environment. This article explores the everyday appropriation of Pentecostal religiosity and rituals by international students in navigating uncertainties and everyday anxie…
Chinese migrants and the politics of everyday life in Zimbabwe
While there has been a rapid migration of Chinese nationals to Zimbabwe following the ‘Look East’ policy, there has been little research on and about how the Chinese migrants relate and interact with locals and how they negotiate their social identities thereof. This paper examines Chinese small-scale traders in Harare, in particular their mundane forms of the everyday, with specific focus on their social and business practices, social relations …
Ruling Party Patronage, Brokerage, and Contestations at Urban Markets in Harare
This study contributes to debates on varieties of clientelism through an analysis of brokerage and ruling party patronage at urban markets in Harare, Zimbabwe. Urban markets are sites of contestation between the opposition-dominated city council and actors aligned with the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union—Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Based on qualitative case study research at two designated markets, the article demonstrates how ru…
Decolonising sociology
The decolonisation of sociology continues to be characterised by debates on what it constitutes, in both theory and practice. While such debates are centred on a 'radical decolonisation', we argue that the decolonisation of sociological curricula is never final, but should be driven by and with 'hybridised' thinking on the knowledge which underpins the discipline. While the canonical thinking in sociology has come under serious critique, there ou…
Mining-induced displacement and livelihood resilience
Youth and the temporalities of non-violent struggles in Zimbabwe
Youth in fragile and conflict-ridden spaces are often constructed as violent and restless subjects who dismember the social fabric of society. Yet, many young people are using non-violent tactics and strategies to articulate their grievances and frustrations with the state of their economies. Young people in such decaying economies live under precarious and uncertain existential conditions. Drawing on the #ThisFlag movement in Zimbabwe, this arti…
Navigating the crisis
This article deploys the concept of kujingirisa to unpack the lived experiences of university students during a period of unprecedented socio-economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe. I particularly examine the existential challenges faced by the students and how they creatively navigated everyday constraints on campus. Central to this article are the multiple ways through which students negotiated and navigated the country’s multi-layered crisi…
Post-displacement livelihoods in mining communities
Forced displacements in mining communities
The Chiadzwa diamonds attracted widespread attention due to human rights violations and illegal smuggling. When diamonds were discovered in 2006, thousands of artisanal miners descended on the diamond fields. In response, the government unleashed the army and police in brutal crackdowns to drive artisanal miners off the diamond fields. This militarisation of diamond fields and extraction was followed by forced displacement of the Chiadzwa people.…
We Are Not Our Parents’ – beyond Political Transition
The story of South Africa’s liberation struggle, from apartheid to constitutional democracy, is writ large with in-depth contributions from young people. Despite their historical involvement, young people have been noticeably absent from the transitional processes ushering in South Africa’s postapartheid dispensation. Their absence has created a crisis of legitimacy, particularly among those disillusioned young people who are unsentimental about …
Politics, (Re)Possession and Resurgence of Student Protests in South African Universities
In post-apartheid South Africa, one of the central analytical questions is to do with the continuity of protests, in particular student movement protests that are highly driven by social, economic and political conditions in the present. In a social and political context of student protests, student movement is considered a threat to the state and a target for state violence. In this paper, we assert that student movement in contemporary South Af…
Mobile Money and the (Un)Making of Social Relations in Chivi, Zimbabwe
The rapid expansion of mobile money technologies in Zimbabwe has substantially altered the monetary ecology and the payment landscape. This article examines the ways in which the adoption, usage and meanings attached to mobile money (re)configure social relationships in the rural community of Chivi. We demonstrate the ways in which mobile money technologies mediate the politics of everyday social relations and shape local social relations in prof…
The Impact of Tourism Leakages on Local Economies
This paper examines the impact of tourism leakages on the local economies. It draws results from a survey done in Nyanga District in Zimbabwe. Data were collected using questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The quantitative analyses were employed to evaluate the level of leakages and its impact on local economies using monetary values. Content analysis was used to summarize community perception of tourism contribution to local economies. Result…
Shades of party activism
New Pentecostal urbanities in Harare
At the height of Zimbabwe’s multi-layered crisis, emerged several Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches (PCCs). Led by youthful charismatic ‘prophets’, these PCCs gained significant traction in many urban spaces, especially in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, where they have sought to ‘Pentecostalise’ the cityscape. Public spaces in Harare have become saturated with Pentecostal aesthetics, which include, but are not limited to, church-branded stickers on v…
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’
Drawing on fieldwork conducted at a South African University, this qualitative study examines the lived experiences of black foreign students studying and living in South Africa. The study sought to understand the role that Pentecostalism plays in mediating the everyday experiences of black foreign students within and beyond the university campus spaces. A total of 30 student patrons from two Pentecostal churches were purposively sampled for the …
We Are Soldiers in God's Army
Spiritual warfare is an important part of everyday life and rituals in Pentecostal churches in Africa and beyond. In Pentecostal parlance, the world is constructed and construed as a battleground between born-again Christians and Satanic forces. This article examines the ways in which Pentecostal Charismatic Churches in Southern Africa adopt and utilise military metaphors and trope in their everyday rituals and practices of spiritual warfare. Dra…
The Impact of Tourism Leakages on Local Economies
This paper examines the impact of tourism leakages on the local economies. It draws results from a survey done in Nyanga District in Zimbabwe. Data were collected using questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The quantitative analyses were employed to evaluate the level of leakages and its impact on local economies using monetary values. Content analysis was used to summarize community perception of tourism contribution to local economies. Result…
Livelihood resilience in a hyperinflationary environment
At the zenith of Zimbabwe’s protracted politico-economic crises around 2007, which resulted in record hyperinflation, the majority of ordinary people confronted monumental livelihood challenges and complex reconfigurations of social and economic relationships. Many people could hardly sustain themselves from their meagre salaries from formal employment. In spite of this seemingly insurmountable livelihood catastrophe, people did not remain passiv…
ThisFlag and #ThisGown Cyber Protests in Zimbabwe
Recently there has been an increasing appropriation of and research on social media technologies in public protests. Thus, taking the #ThisFlag and #ThisGown movements in Zimbabwe, this article examines the role of social media as a mobilising tool in social movements and the creative appropriation of social media technologies by citizens to reclaim their political voices and spaces. I argue that social media continues to be central in mobilising…
Singing Positivity
Zimbabwe’s protracted anti-Euro-American imperialist rhetoric and subsequent draconian policies that imposed a 100 per cent local content on national radio and television birthed a particular type of popular urban youth music genre (urban grooves), which has radically transformed the urban public sphere in the country. In this article, I examine the music and lyrics of one prominent gospel urban grooves artist—Mudiwa “Hood” Mutandwa. I particular…
Navigating Precarious Livelihoods
Since the late 1990s, Zimbabwe has experienced a protracted socioeconomic and political crisis. This crisis was marked by unprecedented unemployment rates, company closures, retrenchments, and rapid informalisation. In the face of employment uncertainties, many youth joined the burgeoning small and medium enterprises (SME) sector. This article explores private SME growth in Harare and shows how it enables young people to navigate the unemployment…
Navigating the crisis
This article deploys the concept of kujingirisa to unpack the lived experiences of university students during a period of unprecedented socio-economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe. I particularly examine the existential challenges faced by the students and how they creatively navigated everyday constraints on campus. Central to this article are the multiple ways through which students negotiated and navigated the country’s multi-layered crisi…
Chinese migrants and the politics of everyday life in Zimbabwe
While there has been a rapid migration of Chinese nationals to Zimbabwe following the ‘Look East’ policy, there has been little research on and about how the Chinese migrants relate and interact with locals and how they negotiate their social identities thereof. This paper examines Chinese small-scale traders in Harare, in particular their mundane forms of the everyday, with specific focus on their social and business practices, social relations …
Surveillance, Spying and Disciplining the University
This article examines the deployment of government spies and state security agents on a university campus in Zimbabwe and the implications this has on knowledge production at the university. The campus is presented as a socio-political space in which everyday political struggles are fought. I argue that surveillance is an intractable part of the rhythms of everyday life on campus, and a very specific form of 'bio-power', 'biopolitics' and violenc…
Forced displacements in mining communities
The Chiadzwa diamonds attracted widespread attention due to human rights violations and illegal smuggling. When diamonds were discovered in 2006, thousands of artisanal miners descended on the diamond fields. In response, the government unleashed the army and police in brutal crackdowns to drive artisanal miners off the diamond fields. This militarisation of diamond fields and extraction was followed by forced displacement of the Chiadzwa people.…
Decolonising sociology
The decolonisation of sociology continues to be characterised by debates on what it constitutes, in both theory and practice. While such debates are centred on a 'radical decolonisation', we argue that the decolonisation of sociological curricula is never final, but should be driven by and with 'hybridised' thinking on the knowledge which underpins the discipline. While the canonical thinking in sociology has come under serious critique, there ou…
Mobile Money and the (Un)Making of Social Relations in Chivi, Zimbabwe
The rapid expansion of mobile money technologies in Zimbabwe has substantially altered the monetary ecology and the payment landscape. This article examines the ways in which the adoption, usage and meanings attached to mobile money (re)configure social relationships in the rural community of Chivi. We demonstrate the ways in which mobile money technologies mediate the politics of everyday social relations and shape local social relations in prof…
Post-displacement livelihoods in mining communities
Politics, (Re)Possession and Resurgence of Student Protests in South African Universities
In post-apartheid South Africa, one of the central analytical questions is to do with the continuity of protests, in particular student movement protests that are highly driven by social, economic and political conditions in the present. In a social and political context of student protests, student movement is considered a threat to the state and a target for state violence. In this paper, we assert that student movement in contemporary South Af…
We Are Soldiers in God's Army
Spiritual warfare is an important part of everyday life and rituals in Pentecostal churches in Africa and beyond. In Pentecostal parlance, the world is constructed and construed as a battleground between born-again Christians and Satanic forces. This article examines the ways in which Pentecostal Charismatic Churches in Southern Africa adopt and utilise military metaphors and trope in their everyday rituals and practices of spiritual warfare. Dra…
Labour Dynamics in Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises (SME s)
Over the past few years, China–Africa engagements have intensified, manifesting in an escalation of Chinese small-scale entrepreneurs investing in African countries. Nevertheless, there is little research on everyday workplace encounters, management styles and labour dynamics in these businesses. This study fills this lacuna by examining labour and management practices in Chinese-owned SME s in Zimbabwe, and how local employees experience and per…
Youth Popular Music, Waithood and Protest
Transactional Relationships Within a University Campus in Zimbabwe
Research on transactional sex and relationships within university spaces is growing. Much of this research focuses on the intergenerational nature and the centrality of sex and money in such relationships. However, little attention has been paid to transactional relationships that do not necessarily involve money and that involve people within the university such as students and nonacademic university workers. As such, there is a dearth of resear…
We Are Not Our Parents’ – beyond Political Transition
The story of South Africa’s liberation struggle, from apartheid to constitutional democracy, is writ large with in-depth contributions from young people. Despite their historical involvement, young people have been noticeably absent from the transitional processes ushering in South Africa’s postapartheid dispensation. Their absence has created a crisis of legitimacy, particularly among those disillusioned young people who are unsentimental about …
Youth and the temporalities of non-violent struggles in Zimbabwe
Youth in fragile and conflict-ridden spaces are often constructed as violent and restless subjects who dismember the social fabric of society. Yet, many young people are using non-violent tactics and strategies to articulate their grievances and frustrations with the state of their economies. Young people in such decaying economies live under precarious and uncertain existential conditions. Drawing on the #ThisFlag movement in Zimbabwe, this arti…
Youth Political Mobilization
In this article, we argue that the “making” and deployment of political violence can be construed as hard work, in which political elites mobilize those from below to sustain their positions through the mobilization and doing of violence against perceived opposition political parties and or individuals. The article examines the ways in which former President Robert Mugabe instrumentalized his political relationship with his clients as a tool of p…
Ruling Party Patronage, Brokerage, and Contestations at Urban Markets in Harare
This study contributes to debates on varieties of clientelism through an analysis of brokerage and ruling party patronage at urban markets in Harare, Zimbabwe. Urban markets are sites of contestation between the opposition-dominated city council and actors aligned with the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union—Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Based on qualitative case study research at two designated markets, the article demonstrates how ru…
Policing toxic masculinities and dealing with sexual violence on Zimbabwean University campuses
University campuses are framed as sexualised spaces marked by high sexual risk-taking behaviour and toxic masculinities that often fuel abusive relationships and sexual violence. More often, the most vulnerable groups, to this violence include sexual minorities, girls and students with disabilities. Drawing on qualitative ethnographic research and semi-structured interviews with students and staff from two universities in Zimbabwe, this article e…
Mining-induced displacement and livelihood resilience
Shades of party activism
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’
Drawing on fieldwork conducted at a South African University, this qualitative study examines the lived experiences of black foreign students studying and living in South Africa. The study sought to understand the role that Pentecostalism plays in mediating the everyday experiences of black foreign students within and beyond the university campus spaces. A total of 30 student patrons from two Pentecostal churches were purposively sampled for the …
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