Rekopantswe Mate
Biographic Data
| ID | 84357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rekopantswe Mate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rekopantswe |
| FAMILY NAME | Mate |
| SIGNATURE | MATE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zimbabwe |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7901-2781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Chronicity, Women’s Suffering, and Prayer: A Budding Prayer Group’s Response to Chronic Developmental Crises in Zimbabwe
This paper uses textual analysis of an audio note that circulated on WhatsApp in 2018 presenting the founder of a rapidly growing predominantly women-only Zimbabwean prayer group. The audio note’s content is taken as an emergent ethnography exposing emic views of women’s lived realities. The analysis uses notions of ‘chronicity’, (Vigh 2008, 10–15) and ‘women’s suffering’ (Cole 2012, 384–6) to ground the audio note’s content in Zimbabwe’s prolong…
Young female traders’ quest for viability in Zimbabwe's politicised urban spaces
This article analyses the viability struggles of young female traders in Harare, Zimbabwe. It makes a conceptual contribution to debates about viability, which captures how young people connect and pursue aims across diverse life domains (referred to as 'thinking and acting across'), by addressing gender and generational power dynamics. The article demonstrates how young female traders in Harare are thinking and acting across the domains of work …
Looking for money: Hustling, youth survival strategies and schizoid subjectivities in Zimbabwe’s crisis
Zimbabwe’s socio-economic crises are well debated but not so much how they encroach on subjectivities. This paper discusses hustling as a multidimensional practice wrought by the crises and used by unemployed youth to get by. Using material from intensive fieldwork done in 2009–10 in Beitbridge on the border with South Africa, the paper discusses subjectivities spawned by and through hustling. With a premium on survival and managing uncertainty, …
Youth Lyrics, Street Language and the Politics of Age: Contextualising the Youth Question in the Third Chimurenga in Zimbabwe
Debates about the effects of the 'cultural nationalism' that has accompanied the so-called 'Third Chimurenga' in Zimbabwe since 2000, often portray youth as pawns of officials - for example, as national youth service trainees or as government sponsored artists - rather than as among the worst affected by recent developmental crises, who are struggling against the odds to survive. Yet concern about youth restlessness did, in part, lead to policies…
Local Perceptions of the Forms, Timing and Causes of Behavior Change in Response to the Aids Epidemic in Zimbabwe
Wombs As God's Laboratories: Pentecostal Discourses of Femininity in Zimbabwe
Studies of born-again Churches in Africa generally conclude that they help members embrace modernity. Their teachings provide the ideological bases for members to embrace changing material realities. Such studies are rather silent on the demands of this ideological frame on women and men. This article looks at two Zimbabwean women's organisations, Gracious Woman and Precious Stones, affiliated to Zimbabwe Assemblies of God in Africa and Family of…
Wombs As God's Laboratories: Pentecostal Discourses of Femininity in Zimbabwe
Studies of born-again Churches in Africa generally conclude that they help members embrace modernity. Their teachings provide the ideological bases for members to embrace changing material realities. Such studies are rather silent on the demands of this ideological frame on women and men. This article looks at two Zimbabwean women's organisations, Gracious Woman and Precious Stones, affiliated to Zimbabwe Assemblies of God in Africa and Family of…
Youth Lyrics, Street Language and the Politics of Age: Contextualising the Youth Question in the Third Chimurenga in Zimbabwe
Debates about the effects of the 'cultural nationalism' that has accompanied the so-called 'Third Chimurenga' in Zimbabwe since 2000, often portray youth as pawns of officials - for example, as national youth service trainees or as government sponsored artists - rather than as among the worst affected by recent developmental crises, who are struggling against the odds to survive. Yet concern about youth restlessness did, in part, lead to policies…
Young female traders’ quest for viability in Zimbabwe's politicised urban spaces
This article analyses the viability struggles of young female traders in Harare, Zimbabwe. It makes a conceptual contribution to debates about viability, which captures how young people connect and pursue aims across diverse life domains (referred to as 'thinking and acting across'), by addressing gender and generational power dynamics. The article demonstrates how young female traders in Harare are thinking and acting across the domains of work …
Looking for money: Hustling, youth survival strategies and schizoid subjectivities in Zimbabwe’s crisis
Zimbabwe’s socio-economic crises are well debated but not so much how they encroach on subjectivities. This paper discusses hustling as a multidimensional practice wrought by the crises and used by unemployed youth to get by. Using material from intensive fieldwork done in 2009–10 in Beitbridge on the border with South Africa, the paper discusses subjectivities spawned by and through hustling. With a premium on survival and managing uncertainty, …
Wombs As God's Laboratories: Pentecostal Discourses of Femininity in Zimbabwe
Studies of born-again Churches in Africa generally conclude that they help members embrace modernity. Their teachings provide the ideological bases for members to embrace changing material realities. Such studies are rather silent on the demands of this ideological frame on women and men. This article looks at two Zimbabwean women's organisations, Gracious Woman and Precious Stones, affiliated to Zimbabwe Assemblies of God in Africa and Family of…
Local Perceptions of the Forms, Timing and Causes of Behavior Change in Response to the Aids Epidemic in Zimbabwe
Youth Lyrics, Street Language and the Politics of Age: Contextualising the Youth Question in the Third Chimurenga in Zimbabwe
Debates about the effects of the 'cultural nationalism' that has accompanied the so-called 'Third Chimurenga' in Zimbabwe since 2000, often portray youth as pawns of officials - for example, as national youth service trainees or as government sponsored artists - rather than as among the worst affected by recent developmental crises, who are struggling against the odds to survive. Yet concern about youth restlessness did, in part, lead to policies…
Young female traders’ quest for viability in Zimbabwe's politicised urban spaces
This article analyses the viability struggles of young female traders in Harare, Zimbabwe. It makes a conceptual contribution to debates about viability, which captures how young people connect and pursue aims across diverse life domains (referred to as 'thinking and acting across'), by addressing gender and generational power dynamics. The article demonstrates how young female traders in Harare are thinking and acting across the domains of work …
Looking for money: Hustling, youth survival strategies and schizoid subjectivities in Zimbabwe’s crisis
Zimbabwe’s socio-economic crises are well debated but not so much how they encroach on subjectivities. This paper discusses hustling as a multidimensional practice wrought by the crises and used by unemployed youth to get by. Using material from intensive fieldwork done in 2009–10 in Beitbridge on the border with South Africa, the paper discusses subjectivities spawned by and through hustling. With a premium on survival and managing uncertainty, …
Chronicity, Women’s Suffering, and Prayer: A Budding Prayer Group’s Response to Chronic Developmental Crises in Zimbabwe
This paper uses textual analysis of an audio note that circulated on WhatsApp in 2018 presenting the founder of a rapidly growing predominantly women-only Zimbabwean prayer group. The audio note’s content is taken as an emergent ethnography exposing emic views of women’s lived realities. The analysis uses notions of ‘chronicity’, (Vigh 2008, 10–15) and ‘women’s suffering’ (Cole 2012, 384–6) to ground the audio note’s content in Zimbabwe’s prolong…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Politics (2 works)