Jocelyn Alexander
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3587009 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jocelyn Alexander |
| PRENOMES | Jocelyn |
| SOBRENOME | Alexander |
| ASSINATURA | ALEXANDER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 433 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi
A period of terrible state repression known as ‘Gukurahundi’ indelibly marked the foundational years of the Zimbabwean nation. The perpetrators of that period still hold power. It has never been subject to an official truth-telling process, nor have the responsible actors been held accountable. Instead, irreconcilable narratives about this past have interacted and, for those subjected to violence, proliferated, producing what I call a ‘noisy sile…
Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements
Transnational Histories of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements
The Transnational Histories of Southern African Liberation Movements
Conference on Southern Africa Beyond the West
The Oxford Handbook of Zimbabwean Politics
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
The Travelling Toyi-Toyi
The toyi-toyi is commonly described as a high-stepping ‘dance’ and associated above all with the anti-apartheid protests of the mid 1980s in South Africa’s townships. Its origins are, however, some two decades earlier and nearly 5,000 miles to the north, in the military training given to cadres of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) in Algeria. Now, the toyi-toyi is as often used in protest against governments led by the region’s former li…
Liberation Beyond the Nation
The articles in this special issue were first presented in April 2019 at a conference titled ‘Liberation Beyond the Nation: Comparisons, Interactions and Methodologies’, organised by the editors at
Adelante!Military Imaginaries, the Cold War, and Southern Africa's Liberation Armies
Studies of southern Africa's liberation movements have turned attention to the great importance of their transnational lives, but have rarely focused on the effects of the military training Cold War-era allies provided in sites across the globe. This is a significant omission in the history of these movements: training turns civilians into soldiers and creates armies with not only military but also social and political effects, as scholarship on …
The Productivity of Political Imprisonment
Political prisons are not only places of violence and silence. They are also productive. Building on recent literature that pays close attention to prisoners’ social and political projects, the article argues that significant, often hidden, aspects of political work take place within the prison, and reach beyond its walls. A focus on the writings and oral histories of political prisoners reveals a remarkable range of imagination and practice with…
State writing, subversion and citizenship in Southern Rhodesia’s state of emergency, 1959–1960
This article takes a moment of political upheaval – Southern Rhodesia’s 1959 State of Emergency – to explore the uses of writing in the remaking of state authority and citizenship. The 1950s had produced a powerful bureaucratic state, a shaky attempt at multi-racial “partnership,” and African aspirations to a citizenship able to encompass equality, rights and self-determination. The Emergency brought the tensions in these modes of government and …
Technical development and the human factor
This chapter begins with a brief introduction to the elaboration of technical development policies in Rhodesia. It then turns to the rise and demise of the most elaborate version of the trend in developmental science and to the Native Land Husbandry Act (NLHA) of 1951. The implementation of the NLHA had to be slowed down so as to 'deal with human factors'. The Act marked the height of Rhodesian technical development and would significantly transf…
The Transnational Histories of Southern African Liberation Movements
The discussions that took place in that venue were vital to developing the ideas represented here. 2 Writing about liberation movements inevitably involves a forest of acronyms.We consolidate those cited herein in this note to avoid constant disruption of the text.The armed wing of the South African ANC (African National Congress) is uMkhonto weSizwe (MK).Zimbabwe's liberation movements are the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and its armed…
African Soldiers in the USSR
A growing literature has shed new light on interactions between the Soviet Union and Africa, notably through studies of the large numbers of African students who arrived in Moscow from 1960. Scholars have, however, largely ignored the many thousands of African military trainees who arrived in the same period. Here we begin to explore soldiers’ experiences through a focus on intelligence cadres of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). We ask…
Loyalty and liberation
Southern African liberation movements in and out of power have been bedevilled by a politics in which loyalties are uncertain and histories of division cannot easily be shed. I use the story of Zephaniah Moyo, who was over his lifetime both loyal to and accused of treachery by all three armed adversaries in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, to argue that the disruptive power of histories of division cannot be reduced to the binaries of loyalty and …
Tributes to Terence Ranger
Since Terry Ranger’s death on 3 January 2015 in Oxford, there has been an outpouring of memorials and tributes to one of the founding fathers of African history. Writers and friends have celebrated
Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
This volume will be an essential starting place for analysts, policy-makers, historians and activists seeking to understand what has happened with regards to the struggle over land in Zimbabwe since 2000 and to spotlight the key issues for the next decade. The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the…
Militarisation and State Institutions
Efforts to understand Zimbabwe's recent upheavals have brought scholars into productive conversation with approaches to African politics hitherto neglected in Zimbabwe. These have included political science analyses of 'disorder' and ethnographic approaches to the state at its unstable 'margins'. Such analyses have highlighted the reconstitution of power through the expansion of powerful networks inside and outside state institutions and focused …
Introduction
This special issue is about politics, patronage and violence in Zimbabwe. These themes provide a means of exploring Zimbabwe's dramatic upheavals in the light of broader debates in African studies
Hooligans, Spivs and Loafers’
In 1960, amidst the most violent period of protest since conquest, the Southern Rhodesian government implemented a new Vagrancy Act alongside a range of repressive legislation. The Act's origins lay in a particular analysis of the social origins of unrest. It was unprecedented in promising not to exclude and criminalise ‘vagrants’ but to rehabilitate them as productive urban citizens. By presenting the Act as reformist and progressive, the govern…
Rethinking the State and Political Opposition Through the Prism of the Prison
One of Becoming Zimbabwe's purposes is to dismantle a teleological history of the nation. From the pre-colonial period to the present, the book's authors are intent on exploring not the nation's steady march of unity and progress but its wobbly, contingent history of division and dispute, expressed in fluid identities, contested political ideas, and a complicated interplay of domination and resistance. The book takes to task a range of historical…
Nationalism and Self-government in Rhodesian Detention
Political prisoners have commonly resisted the terms of their imprisonment. Under certain circumstances, they have also sought to displace the state's authority with their own institutions of government. These efforts provide a unique window onto political ideas and ‘languages of stateness’, as well as the effects of particular conditions of confinement. ZAPU detainees' practices in the remote outpost of Gonakudzingwa revealed a commitment to a m…
Introduction
Repressive settler rule, armed liberation struggles and the absence of equitable justice systems have ensured that discourses and practices of ‘punishment’ profoundly shaped the colonial experience
An overview of Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
Events in the last decade around the land question in Zimbabwe and the broader political context in which they have played out have been dramatic and transformational. Sparked by land occupations
The Consequences of Violent Politics in Norton, Zimbabwe
The lasting consequences of violent politics in Zimbabwe cannot be fully grasped without exploring both their institutional and material contexts and local interpretations of the meaning of particular acts of violence. Drawing on narratives of political violence from the town of Norton, three points are made. First, the extreme electoral violence of 2008 was interpreted by opposition members as an almost inexplicable moment of rupture. As a resul…
The Political Imaginaries and Social Lives of Political Prisoners in Post-2000 Zimbabwe
This article situates the experiences of political prisoners in post-2000 Zimbabwe in a historical sequence of imprisonment. It uses prisoners' narratives to examine the shifting political ideas and social and material practices that shaped opposition politics. I explore the centrality of ideas about the rule of law, the practices and beliefs through which social and political connection and community were built within and beyond the prison walls…
The local state in post-war Mozambique
The article explores the ways in which post-independence political practices in Mozambique's rural areas have shaped attitudes towards official authority, and considers the legacy of those attitudes for the recently promulgated Municipalities Law. The law will transfer a range of state functions to elected district institutions, and grant a greater role to 'traditional authorities' (chiefs). Mozambican officials and academics see the law-and dece…
Introduction
This special issue is about politics, patronage and violence in Zimbabwe. These themes provide a means of exploring Zimbabwe's dramatic upheavals in the light of broader debates in African studies
An overview of Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
Events in the last decade around the land question in Zimbabwe and the broader political context in which they have played out have been dramatic and transformational. Sparked by land occupations
Dissident perspectives on Zimbabwe's post-Independence war
A much neglected perspective on Zimbabwe's post-independence war is that held by its insurgents, the so-called dissidents. The experience of dissidents has been little explored, in part because of the difficulty of doing so until recently but also because scholars and journalists have analysed post-1980 violence primarily in terms of the political interests of either ZAPU or ZANU-PF, Zimbabwe's dominant nationalist parties, or the South African s…
Violence and Memory
Part 1 Conquest, eviction and nationalism: life in the dark forests - violence and images of the land, 1893-1930 the violence of the state - forced migration and its consequences the violence of the state - the second colonial occupation the rise of nationalist violence the transition to guerilla war, 1962-76. Part 2 Wars and their legacies: the liberation war in the Shangani guerillas and civilians independence and the dissidents civilian perspe…
State, peasantry and resettlement in Zimbabwe
The end of minority rule in Zimbabwe seemed to herald dramatic changes in agrarian and local government policies, as well as in official attitudes towards the rural areas more generally: the newly elected ZANU(PF) government promised a dramatic decentralisation and democratisation of government structures and a large scale redistribution of land. This article assesses the extent to which the promises of independence were met. It stresses the impo…
Violence and Memory
Militarisation and State Institutions
Efforts to understand Zimbabwe's recent upheavals have brought scholars into productive conversation with approaches to African politics hitherto neglected in Zimbabwe. These have included political science analyses of 'disorder' and ethnographic approaches to the state at its unstable 'margins'. Such analyses have highlighted the reconstitution of power through the expansion of powerful networks inside and outside state institutions and focused …
Wildlife and Politics
CAMPFIRE programmes have been hailed internationally for the innovative ways in which they have sought to confront the challenges of some of Africa's most marginal regions through the promotion of local control over wildlife management. In Zimbabwe, CAMPFIRE has been cast as an antidote to the colonial legacy of technocratic and authoritarian development which had undermined people's control over their environment and criminalized their use of ga…
The Transnational Histories of Southern African Liberation Movements
The discussions that took place in that venue were vital to developing the ideas represented here. 2 Writing about liberation movements inevitably involves a forest of acronyms.We consolidate those cited herein in this note to avoid constant disruption of the text.The armed wing of the South African ANC (African National Congress) is uMkhonto weSizwe (MK).Zimbabwe's liberation movements are the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and its armed…
The unsettled land
Since independence, the question of land redistribution has been central to Zimbabwe's rural politics. Scant attention has, however, been paid to the western Matabeleland Provinces. This paper takes Insiza District as a case study to illustrate the atypical experience of the region. In 1980 and 1981, relatively few people moved from communal areas to the formerly European areas, reflecting a locally perceived shortage of grazing land and the dear…
The Noisy Silence of Gukurahundi
A period of terrible state repression known as ‘Gukurahundi’ indelibly marked the foundational years of the Zimbabwean nation. The perpetrators of that period still hold power. It has never been subject to an official truth-telling process, nor have the responsible actors been held accountable. Instead, irreconcilable narratives about this past have interacted and, for those subjected to violence, proliferated, producing what I call a ‘noisy sile…
War Stories
This article is about guerrilla narratives of war, as told by veterans of the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), one of two armies that fought in Zimbabwe’s war for independence in the 1970s. Our discussion contributes a new perspective to the rich literature on Zimbabwe’s liberation war, and to studies of soldiers’ stories more broadly, by exploring the narrative form and content of these accounts. Guerrillas’ stories highlight the tr…
Nationalism and Self-government in Rhodesian Detention
Political prisoners have commonly resisted the terms of their imprisonment. Under certain circumstances, they have also sought to displace the state's authority with their own institutions of government. These efforts provide a unique window onto political ideas and ‘languages of stateness’, as well as the effects of particular conditions of confinement. ZAPU detainees' practices in the remote outpost of Gonakudzingwa revealed a commitment to a m…
Elections, Land and the Politics of Opposition in Matabeleland
In the run up to the elections of June 2000, President Robert Mugabe promised to deliver land to the people; he sought to rede?ne the rural areas as the moral heart of the nation, and used veterans from the liberation war to spear-head occupations of largely white-owned commercial farmland. ZANU-PF's electoral campaign succeeded in large swathes of the countryside, but it was notably unsuccessful in Matabeleland. In rural (as well as urban) Matab…
Loyalty and liberation
Southern African liberation movements in and out of power have been bedevilled by a politics in which loyalties are uncertain and histories of division cannot easily be shed. I use the story of Zephaniah Moyo, who was over his lifetime both loyal to and accused of treachery by all three armed adversaries in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, to argue that the disruptive power of histories of division cannot be reduced to the binaries of loyalty and …
Hooligans, Spivs and Loafers’
In 1960, amidst the most violent period of protest since conquest, the Southern Rhodesian government implemented a new Vagrancy Act alongside a range of repressive legislation. The Act's origins lay in a particular analysis of the social origins of unrest. It was unprecedented in promising not to exclude and criminalise ‘vagrants’ but to rehabilitate them as productive urban citizens. By presenting the Act as reformist and progressive, the govern…
Modernity and ethnicity in a frontier society
This article builds on Terence Ranger's pioneering work on Ndebele identity through an exploration of the everyday politics of naming as it occurred in the context of forced evictions into the remote Shangani Reserve after World War Two. We argue that day to day interactions were critical in shaping the content of Ndebele identity. Evictees, whose communities and structures of leadership were systematically broken up by an administration intent o…
The Consequences of Violent Politics in Norton, Zimbabwe
The lasting consequences of violent politics in Zimbabwe cannot be fully grasped without exploring both their institutional and material contexts and local interpretations of the meaning of particular acts of violence. Drawing on narratives of political violence from the town of Norton, three points are made. First, the extreme electoral violence of 2008 was interpreted by opposition members as an almost inexplicable moment of rupture. As a resul…
The Political Imaginaries and Social Lives of Political Prisoners in Post-2000 Zimbabwe
This article situates the experiences of political prisoners in post-2000 Zimbabwe in a historical sequence of imprisonment. It uses prisoners' narratives to examine the shifting political ideas and social and material practices that shaped opposition politics. I explore the centrality of ideas about the rule of law, the practices and beliefs through which social and political connection and community were built within and beyond the prison walls…
Violence and Memory
Jocelyn Alexander, Joann McGregor and Terence Ranger. Violence and Memory: one hundred years in the 'dark forests' of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.Oxford: Currey, 2000, 302 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 692 6 (hard covers), £16.95, ISBN 0 85255 642 X (paperback). - Volume 72 Issue 1
Political Prisoners' Memoirs in Zimbabwe
Prison narratives are a key genre of African nationalist writing. They offer a unique window onto the relationships between the personal and political, the self and nation. This article focuses on the memoirs of three Zimbabwean political prisoners in order to explore claims to agency in prison, constructions of gender and race, and the complexities of individual passages within the collective narrative of nationalism. The memoirs are revealing o…
Politics, Penality and (Post-)Colonialism
In recent years there has been a vast expansion in the historiography of colonial and post-colonial incarceration.Interest in the history of British colonial institutions of penal confinement emerged through discussions of the foundation of Australia as a penal colony in the late eighteenth century.The Antipodean literature has become enveloped since in more wide-ranging work on colonial -and post-colonial -penal institutions, especially in Afric…
The Historiography of Land in Zimbabwe
Land is fundamental to the multifaceted crisis that has so dramatically engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000. It is the centrally contested nati
Competition and Integration in the Religious History of North-Western Zimbabwe
COMPETITION AND INTEGRATION IN THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF NORTH-WESTERN ZIMBABWE BY JOCELYN ALEXANDER AND TERENCE RANGER (St. Antony's, Oxford) Introduction 'Literature on religion in Zimbabwe,' wrote Adrian Hastings recently, 'is exceptionally rich.' There has been work on mission Christianity and its indigenisation; on African independent churches; and on African religion. Such research has 'wrestled with the complex relationship between native Z…
Colonial New England Preaching on War as Illustrated in Massachusetts Artillery Election Sermons
Journal Article Colonial New England Preaching on War as Illustrated in Massachusetts Artillery Election Sermons Get access Jon A. T. Alexander Jon A. T. Alexander simply professed Cooperator Brother of the Order of Preachers Province of St. Albert the Great Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 17, Issue 3, Autumn 1975, Pages 423–442, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/17.3.423 Publ…
The unsettled land
Since independence, the question of land redistribution has been central to Zimbabwe's rural politics. Scant attention has, however, been paid to the western Matabeleland Provinces. This paper takes Insiza District as a case study to illustrate the atypical experience of the region. In 1980 and 1981, relatively few people moved from communal areas to the formerly European areas, reflecting a locally perceived shortage of grazing land and the dear…
Books reviewed
Richard Werbner, Tears of the Dead: the Social Biography of an African Family (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 1991), xi, 211pp, £30 Norma J. Kriger, Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1992), x, 303pp, £35 K. Spink, Black Sash: the Beginning of a Bridge in South Africa (Methuen: London, 1991), xvi, 336pp, £14.99 Vernon February, The Afrikaners of South Africa (Kegan Paul International: London a…
State, peasantry and resettlement in Zimbabwe
The end of minority rule in Zimbabwe seemed to herald dramatic changes in agrarian and local government policies, as well as in official attitudes towards the rural areas more generally: the newly elected ZANU(PF) government promised a dramatic decentralisation and democratisation of government structures and a large scale redistribution of land. This article assesses the extent to which the promises of independence were met. It stresses the impo…
Modernity and ethnicity in a frontier society
This article builds on Terence Ranger's pioneering work on Ndebele identity through an exploration of the everyday politics of naming as it occurred in the context of forced evictions into the remote Shangani Reserve after World War Two. We argue that day to day interactions were critical in shaping the content of Ndebele identity. Evictees, whose communities and structures of leadership were systematically broken up by an administration intent o…
The local state in post-war Mozambique
The article explores the ways in which post-independence political practices in Mozambique's rural areas have shaped attitudes towards official authority, and considers the legacy of those attitudes for the recently promulgated Municipalities Law. The law will transfer a range of state functions to elected district institutions, and grant a greater role to 'traditional authorities' (chiefs). Mozambican officials and academics see the law-and dece…
Special issue on Mozambique
Competition and Integration in the Religious History of North-Western Zimbabwe
COMPETITION AND INTEGRATION IN THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF NORTH-WESTERN ZIMBABWE BY JOCELYN ALEXANDER AND TERENCE RANGER (St. Antony's, Oxford) Introduction 'Literature on religion in Zimbabwe,' wrote Adrian Hastings recently, 'is exceptionally rich.' There has been work on mission Christianity and its indigenisation; on African independent churches; and on African religion. Such research has 'wrestled with the complex relationship between native Z…
Dissident perspectives on Zimbabwe's post-Independence war
A much neglected perspective on Zimbabwe's post-independence war is that held by its insurgents, the so-called dissidents. The experience of dissidents has been little explored, in part because of the difficulty of doing so until recently but also because scholars and journalists have analysed post-1980 violence primarily in terms of the political interests of either ZAPU or ZANU-PF, Zimbabwe's dominant nationalist parties, or the South African s…
Wildlife and Politics
CAMPFIRE programmes have been hailed internationally for the innovative ways in which they have sought to confront the challenges of some of Africa's most marginal regions through the promotion of local control over wildlife management. In Zimbabwe, CAMPFIRE has been cast as an antidote to the colonial legacy of technocratic and authoritarian development which had undermined people's control over their environment and criminalized their use of ga…
Violence and Memory
Part 1 Conquest, eviction and nationalism: life in the dark forests - violence and images of the land, 1893-1930 the violence of the state - forced migration and its consequences the violence of the state - the second colonial occupation the rise of nationalist violence the transition to guerilla war, 1962-76. Part 2 Wars and their legacies: the liberation war in the Shangani guerillas and civilians independence and the dissidents civilian perspe…
Les élections, la terre et l'émergence de l'opposition dans le Matabeleland
L'échec électoral de la Zanu-PF dans le Matabeleland rural et urbain doit être mis en relation avec l'histoire contemporaine de cette région. En analysant trois districts du Matabeleland North, on constate que les occupations de fermes, depuis mars 2000, mais aussi la campagne électorale de juin y ont été moins violentes qu'ailleurs, que les vétérans locaux n'ont pas reçu l'appui massif de la population, laquelle a perçu la violence à travers le …
Violence and Memory
Elections, Land and the Politics of Opposition in Matabeleland
In the run up to the elections of June 2000, President Robert Mugabe promised to deliver land to the people; he sought to rede?ne the rural areas as the moral heart of the nation, and used veterans from the liberation war to spear-head occupations of largely white-owned commercial farmland. ZANU-PF's electoral campaign succeeded in large swathes of the countryside, but it was notably unsuccessful in Matabeleland. In rural (as well as urban) Matab…
Violence and Memory
Jocelyn Alexander, Joann McGregor and Terence Ranger. Violence and Memory: one hundred years in the 'dark forests' of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.Oxford: Currey, 2000, 302 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 692 6 (hard covers), £16.95, ISBN 0 85255 642 X (paperback). - Volume 72 Issue 1
War Stories
This article is about guerrilla narratives of war, as told by veterans of the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), one of two armies that fought in Zimbabwe’s war for independence in the 1970s. Our discussion contributes a new perspective to the rich literature on Zimbabwe’s liberation war, and to studies of soldiers’ stories more broadly, by exploring the narrative form and content of these accounts. Guerrillas’ stories highlight the tr…
The Historiography of Land in Zimbabwe
Land is fundamental to the multifaceted crisis that has so dramatically engulfed Zimbabwe since 2000. It is the centrally contested nati
Political Prisoners' Memoirs in Zimbabwe
Prison narratives are a key genre of African nationalist writing. They offer a unique window onto the relationships between the personal and political, the self and nation. This article focuses on the memoirs of three Zimbabwean political prisoners in order to explore claims to agency in prison, constructions of gender and race, and the complexities of individual passages within the collective narrative of nationalism. The memoirs are revealing o…
Politics, Penality and (Post-)Colonialism
In recent years there has been a vast expansion in the historiography of colonial and post-colonial incarceration.Interest in the history of British colonial institutions of penal confinement emerged through discussions of the foundation of Australia as a penal colony in the late eighteenth century.The Antipodean literature has become enveloped since in more wide-ranging work on colonial -and post-colonial -penal institutions, especially in Afric…
La violence et les urnes
Le présent article explore les divers rôles joués par la violence lors des récentes élections présidentielles au Zimbabwe. Le premier tour a été marqué par l'absence relative de violence d'État, alors que le second a connu une violence extrême, orchestrée par le parti au pouvoir. Les comparaisons parfois faites entre le Zimbabwe et le Kenya nous semblent trompeuses: la violence électorale au Zimbabwe n'était pas une violence ethnique et elle ne p…
Turning Points in African Democracy
Turning Points in African Democracy
The Consequences of Violent Politics in Norton, Zimbabwe
The lasting consequences of violent politics in Zimbabwe cannot be fully grasped without exploring both their institutional and material contexts and local interpretations of the meaning of particular acts of violence. Drawing on narratives of political violence from the town of Norton, three points are made. First, the extreme electoral violence of 2008 was interpreted by opposition members as an almost inexplicable moment of rupture. As a resul…
The Political Imaginaries and Social Lives of Political Prisoners in Post-2000 Zimbabwe
This article situates the experiences of political prisoners in post-2000 Zimbabwe in a historical sequence of imprisonment. It uses prisoners' narratives to examine the shifting political ideas and social and material practices that shaped opposition politics. I explore the centrality of ideas about the rule of law, the practices and beliefs through which social and political connection and community were built within and beyond the prison walls…
Rethinking the State and Political Opposition Through the Prism of the Prison
One of Becoming Zimbabwe's purposes is to dismantle a teleological history of the nation. From the pre-colonial period to the present, the book's authors are intent on exploring not the nation's steady march of unity and progress but its wobbly, contingent history of division and dispute, expressed in fluid identities, contested political ideas, and a complicated interplay of domination and resistance. The book takes to task a range of historical…
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