Gerald Chikozho Mazarire
Biographic Data
| ID | 285729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald Chikozho Mazarire |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald Chikozho |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazarire |
| SIGNATURE | MAZARIRE G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Midlands State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Offloading African academic fodder? A response
The impact of neoliberalism on the world university system has been widely debated. Trends in the global North today show not only the tighter managerialism that comes with cuts to university funding and commercialization, but also competition for fee-paying ‘student customers’ and casualization of academic staff in an era of increased international student mobility. There are louder calls for quality enhancement and more inclusive learning envir…
Obituary: Ngwabi Mulunge Bhebe, 1942-2023
I learnt with great sadness of the passing of this illustrious man, Professor Ngwabi Mulunge Bhebe, a historian of note, whom I first met as his student in 1998 at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe: Crisis? What Crisis
Three years after the November 2017 coup in Zimbabwe and the installation of Emmerson Mnangagwa as ruling party and state president, there is growing scholarly interest in identifying the character of the post-coup regime, particularly in comparison to the 37-year reign of Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF. So far, there are continuities and changes, with increasing concerns about a qualitative shift in the militarization of Zimbabwean state and society un…
Zanu's External Networks 1963-1979: An Appraisal
The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) emerged from the smouldering ashes of the intra-party violence that followed its break away from the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) in 1963 and the clampdown by Rhodesian authorities. Its structures were barely consolidated when it was banned in 1964, and its efforts in exile suffered a crisis of recognition, as the key sponsors of African liberation movements continued to view it as an ‘inauthen…
The burrowed earth: Rodents in Zimbabwe’s environmental history
Increased contact between human and rodent habitats has been registered in recent years following growing urbanization, forest loss and the expansion of grassland in the African savannah. The evolution of rodent ecologies and the implications of the growing rodent numbers for human health and food security are a growing reality. However, rodents tend to dominate public discourse and policy debates in sub-Saharan Africa only during times of outbre…
Doing Zimbabwean History with Terence Ranger: A Personal Note
Terence Ranger had two physical moments in the academic history of Zimbabwe: the first, and most eventful, at the incipient stages of his illustrious career as a historian of Africa, and the second in the penultimate and twilight years of the same. Both were historiographically significant. I am associated with the second moment, to which I can give humble comment in the following lines, as it is also a moment that shaped my own career as a histo…
The Pots on Our Roads’: The Diaspora Fleet and Harare’s Urban Commuter System
This article explores the role of the ‘diaspora fleet’ in Harare’s urban commuter system. Imported vehicles in the form of haulage trucks and commuter buses were one of the popular and visible forms of diasporic investment over Zimbabwe’s difficult decade spanning from 2000 to about 2010. The article argues that this diaspora fleet occupies a significant place in the history of commuting in Harare. Diasporic investment introduced a cocktail of Eu…
The gadzingo: Towards a Karanga expansion matrix in 18th- and 19th-century southern Zimbabwe
The territorial boundaries of Zimbabwe's pre-colonial people have remained elusive to successive generations of political administrators and scholars alike. The lack of appreciation of the material, physical and symbolic attributes informing local principles of territoriality has condemned any analysis of these African boundaries to exercises in futility. This paper discusses the explicit details of a formula used to define these concepts amongst…
Carl Mauch and Some Karanga Chiefs Around Great Zimbabwe 1871–1872: Re-Considering the Evidence
The region around Great Zimbabwe was a theatre of considerable human traffic between c.1750–1850. This period coincided with the disintegration of the Rozvi ‘empire’, which resulted in the formation of dynasties that came to dominate the Karanga cluster. This process was still commonplace in the late nineteenth century and a few European visitors found a number of its prime role players still at work. Very few lived amongst the actors and become …
Discipline and Punishment in Zanla: 1964-1979
Discipline is a subject more referred to than examined in the history of Zimbabwe's liberation war. While there are references to the administration of punishment in specific circumstances or, more often, contemptuous remarks by Rhodesian soldiers regarding the unprofessional conduct of guerrillas in general, few studies have investigated the systematic deployment of disciplinary structures in Zimbabwe's guerrilla movements. Drawing on internal s…
The Chishanga Waters have their Owners: Water Politics and Development in Southern Zimbabwe
The gadzingo or ancestral headquarters of the Mapanzure/Hera people of Chishanga in southern Zimbabwe was strategically chosen. Its high altitude and picturesque terrain offered several advantages for healthy and secure pre-colonial settlement. Above all, it was a major watershed from which all the rivers of the territory flowed, so that it was possible, over time, for specific lineages to claim ownership of a river or stream of their own. This w…
A ‘little England’ in Chishanga: The fate of a British Empire leprosarium at Ngomahuru, 1925–1946
Changing Landscape and Oral Memory in South-Central Zimbabwe: Towards a Historical Geography of Chishanga, c. 1850-1990* This paper is based on my current research on the history of the same area. I a…
This paper is about a 'place' that effectively no longer exists - in the sense of being a recognisable unit of territory. 'Chishanga' has always been a term of contestation, referring more or less tenuously to a stretch of ground across which struggles for authority, power and identity have taken place. In tracking and examining these struggles using oral history techniques, the paper draws attention to the fallacies of a chiefdom-based approach …
Changing Landscape and Oral Memory in South-Central Zimbabwe: Towards a Historical Geography of Chishanga, c. 1850-1990
This paper is about a ‘place’ that effectively no longer exists – in the sense of being a recognisable unit of territory. ‘Chishanga’ has always been a term of contestation, referring more or less tenuously to a stretch of ground across which struggles for authority, power and identity have taken place. In tracking and examining these struggles using oral history techniques, the paper draws attention to the fallacies of a chiefdom-based approach …
Discipline and Punishment in Zanla: 1964-1979
Discipline is a subject more referred to than examined in the history of Zimbabwe's liberation war. While there are references to the administration of punishment in specific circumstances or, more often, contemptuous remarks by Rhodesian soldiers regarding the unprofessional conduct of guerrillas in general, few studies have investigated the systematic deployment of disciplinary structures in Zimbabwe's guerrilla movements. Drawing on internal s…
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe: Crisis? What Crisis
Three years after the November 2017 coup in Zimbabwe and the installation of Emmerson Mnangagwa as ruling party and state president, there is growing scholarly interest in identifying the character of the post-coup regime, particularly in comparison to the 37-year reign of Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF. So far, there are continuities and changes, with increasing concerns about a qualitative shift in the militarization of Zimbabwean state and society un…
Zanu's External Networks 1963-1979: An Appraisal
The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) emerged from the smouldering ashes of the intra-party violence that followed its break away from the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) in 1963 and the clampdown by Rhodesian authorities. Its structures were barely consolidated when it was banned in 1964, and its efforts in exile suffered a crisis of recognition, as the key sponsors of African liberation movements continued to view it as an ‘inauthen…
The Chishanga Waters have their Owners: Water Politics and Development in Southern Zimbabwe
The gadzingo or ancestral headquarters of the Mapanzure/Hera people of Chishanga in southern Zimbabwe was strategically chosen. Its high altitude and picturesque terrain offered several advantages for healthy and secure pre-colonial settlement. Above all, it was a major watershed from which all the rivers of the territory flowed, so that it was possible, over time, for specific lineages to claim ownership of a river or stream of their own. This w…
The gadzingo: Towards a Karanga expansion matrix in 18th- and 19th-century southern Zimbabwe
The territorial boundaries of Zimbabwe's pre-colonial people have remained elusive to successive generations of political administrators and scholars alike. The lack of appreciation of the material, physical and symbolic attributes informing local principles of territoriality has condemned any analysis of these African boundaries to exercises in futility. This paper discusses the explicit details of a formula used to define these concepts amongst…
The burrowed earth: Rodents in Zimbabwe’s environmental history
Increased contact between human and rodent habitats has been registered in recent years following growing urbanization, forest loss and the expansion of grassland in the African savannah. The evolution of rodent ecologies and the implications of the growing rodent numbers for human health and food security are a growing reality. However, rodents tend to dominate public discourse and policy debates in sub-Saharan Africa only during times of outbre…
The Pots on Our Roads’: The Diaspora Fleet and Harare’s Urban Commuter System
This article explores the role of the ‘diaspora fleet’ in Harare’s urban commuter system. Imported vehicles in the form of haulage trucks and commuter buses were one of the popular and visible forms of diasporic investment over Zimbabwe’s difficult decade spanning from 2000 to about 2010. The article argues that this diaspora fleet occupies a significant place in the history of commuting in Harare. Diasporic investment introduced a cocktail of Eu…
Changing Landscape and Oral Memory in South-Central Zimbabwe: Towards a Historical Geography of Chishanga, c. 1850-1990* This paper is based on my current research on the history of the same area. I a…
This paper is about a 'place' that effectively no longer exists - in the sense of being a recognisable unit of territory. 'Chishanga' has always been a term of contestation, referring more or less tenuously to a stretch of ground across which struggles for authority, power and identity have taken place. In tracking and examining these struggles using oral history techniques, the paper draws attention to the fallacies of a chiefdom-based approach …
Changing Landscape and Oral Memory in South-Central Zimbabwe: Towards a Historical Geography of Chishanga, c. 1850-1990
This paper is about a ‘place’ that effectively no longer exists – in the sense of being a recognisable unit of territory. ‘Chishanga’ has always been a term of contestation, referring more or less tenuously to a stretch of ground across which struggles for authority, power and identity have taken place. In tracking and examining these struggles using oral history techniques, the paper draws attention to the fallacies of a chiefdom-based approach …
A ‘little England’ in Chishanga: The fate of a British Empire leprosarium at Ngomahuru, 1925–1946
The Chishanga Waters have their Owners: Water Politics and Development in Southern Zimbabwe
The gadzingo or ancestral headquarters of the Mapanzure/Hera people of Chishanga in southern Zimbabwe was strategically chosen. Its high altitude and picturesque terrain offered several advantages for healthy and secure pre-colonial settlement. Above all, it was a major watershed from which all the rivers of the territory flowed, so that it was possible, over time, for specific lineages to claim ownership of a river or stream of their own. This w…
Discipline and Punishment in Zanla: 1964-1979
Discipline is a subject more referred to than examined in the history of Zimbabwe's liberation war. While there are references to the administration of punishment in specific circumstances or, more often, contemptuous remarks by Rhodesian soldiers regarding the unprofessional conduct of guerrillas in general, few studies have investigated the systematic deployment of disciplinary structures in Zimbabwe's guerrilla movements. Drawing on internal s…
The gadzingo: Towards a Karanga expansion matrix in 18th- and 19th-century southern Zimbabwe
The territorial boundaries of Zimbabwe's pre-colonial people have remained elusive to successive generations of political administrators and scholars alike. The lack of appreciation of the material, physical and symbolic attributes informing local principles of territoriality has condemned any analysis of these African boundaries to exercises in futility. This paper discusses the explicit details of a formula used to define these concepts amongst…
Carl Mauch and Some Karanga Chiefs Around Great Zimbabwe 1871–1872: Re-Considering the Evidence
The region around Great Zimbabwe was a theatre of considerable human traffic between c.1750–1850. This period coincided with the disintegration of the Rozvi ‘empire’, which resulted in the formation of dynasties that came to dominate the Karanga cluster. This process was still commonplace in the late nineteenth century and a few European visitors found a number of its prime role players still at work. Very few lived amongst the actors and become …
The Pots on Our Roads’: The Diaspora Fleet and Harare’s Urban Commuter System
This article explores the role of the ‘diaspora fleet’ in Harare’s urban commuter system. Imported vehicles in the form of haulage trucks and commuter buses were one of the popular and visible forms of diasporic investment over Zimbabwe’s difficult decade spanning from 2000 to about 2010. The article argues that this diaspora fleet occupies a significant place in the history of commuting in Harare. Diasporic investment introduced a cocktail of Eu…
Doing Zimbabwean History with Terence Ranger: A Personal Note
Terence Ranger had two physical moments in the academic history of Zimbabwe: the first, and most eventful, at the incipient stages of his illustrious career as a historian of Africa, and the second in the penultimate and twilight years of the same. Both were historiographically significant. I am associated with the second moment, to which I can give humble comment in the following lines, as it is also a moment that shaped my own career as a histo…
The burrowed earth: Rodents in Zimbabwe’s environmental history
Increased contact between human and rodent habitats has been registered in recent years following growing urbanization, forest loss and the expansion of grassland in the African savannah. The evolution of rodent ecologies and the implications of the growing rodent numbers for human health and food security are a growing reality. However, rodents tend to dominate public discourse and policy debates in sub-Saharan Africa only during times of outbre…
Zanu's External Networks 1963-1979: An Appraisal
The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) emerged from the smouldering ashes of the intra-party violence that followed its break away from the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) in 1963 and the clampdown by Rhodesian authorities. Its structures were barely consolidated when it was banned in 1964, and its efforts in exile suffered a crisis of recognition, as the key sponsors of African liberation movements continued to view it as an ‘inauthen…
Mnangagwa's Zimbabwe: Crisis? What Crisis
Three years after the November 2017 coup in Zimbabwe and the installation of Emmerson Mnangagwa as ruling party and state president, there is growing scholarly interest in identifying the character of the post-coup regime, particularly in comparison to the 37-year reign of Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF. So far, there are continuities and changes, with increasing concerns about a qualitative shift in the militarization of Zimbabwean state and society un…
Obituary: Ngwabi Mulunge Bhebe, 1942-2023
I learnt with great sadness of the passing of this illustrious man, Professor Ngwabi Mulunge Bhebe, a historian of note, whom I first met as his student in 1998 at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ)
Offloading African academic fodder? A response
The impact of neoliberalism on the world university system has been widely debated. Trends in the global North today show not only the tighter managerialism that comes with cuts to university funding and commercialization, but also competition for fee-paying ‘student customers’ and casualization of academic staff in an era of increased international student mobility. There are louder calls for quality enhancement and more inclusive learning envir…
African studies and sociopolitical issues (12 works) · African history and culture studies (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · South African History and Culture (5 works) · Economics (4 works)