The Crucible of Cultural Politics
Reworking "Development" in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2467999 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald S Moore (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 654-689 |
| Publication date | 1999-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1999.26.3.654 |
| OpenAlex | W2077407341 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 145 |
| References cited | 127 |
In this article, I examine the cultural politics of development in a Zimbabwean resettlement scheme, situating state interventions in the deep histories of colonial efforts to discipline rural livelihoods. Popular memories of resistance to colonial conservation, shaped by transnational circuits and constitutive of Zimbabwean nationalism, animate the cultural idioms of entitlement and state power in the 1990s. The contingent micro-politics of agrarian struggle counter a recent tendency toward discursive determinism in anthropological perspectives on development. [development, cultural politics, practice, nationalism, spatiality, governmentality, southern Africa
Agrarian society · Colonialism · Entitlement (fair division · Governmentality · Livelihood · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law
Refugees and Squatters
Reencountering Development
Moral Orgasm and Productive Sex
Simians, Savages, Skulls, and Sex
Moral Science and the Management of “Sexual Revolution” in Russia
Family Planning, Human Nature, and the Ethical Subject of Sex in Urban Greece
Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone.
Beyond Ecoliberal “Common Futures”
“Ordinary” Sex, Prostitutes, and Middle-Class Wives
Sexuality, the State, and the Runaway Wives of Highlands Papua, Indonesia
Men in Paradise
Culture for biodiversity conservation? Untangling engagements with pastoralism in northern Kenya's private conservancies
Lessons in a bottle
Racial neoliberal philanthropy and the arts for social change
Thinking with the Blood
Spatial (re)organization and places of the Brao in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia
Beyond antidevelopment
“On the Raggedy Edge of Risk”
From Auntie to Disco
Intimate Publics
“The More You Kill the More You Will Live”
The Kothi Wars
‘Not Suspended in Mid-Air’
For the Love of a Good Dog
Colonial World of Postcolonial Historians and the Neoliberal Reinvention of Tribal Identity in India
After the Great White Error … The Great Black Mirage
Inventing the Heterozygote
Globalizing the Facts of Life
Pulp Fictions of Indigenism
“There Is a Land Where Everything Is Pure”
Uses and Pleasures
The Micropolitics of the Ban on Shahtoosh
Localizing global sport for development
Development and the Life Story of a Thai Farmer Leader
Debating the Land Question in Africa
La Sécheresse
Intimate Publics
Development and Governmentality
Resilience and the creative economy in Kingston, Jamaica
“Settlers” and Zimbabwe
Locating the Political in Political Ecology
“They Are Not Understanding Sustainability”
Rezoned for Business
Introduction
Doing ′Conservation
Natures of concern
The Influence of Context on Occupational Selection in Sport-for-Development
Producing society or the self-producing of society? A study of an NGO’s difficult situation on poverty reduction
The politics of rural access and settler colonialism
Governing rural Indonesia
The story of blue pee
Village politics, culture and community-driven development
What to Expect When You Don’t Know What You are Expecting
Against the Current, From Below
Discourses matter
Subjects of Development
Beyond Discourse and Competence
Power, Resistance and Development in the Global South
Introduction to symposium on rethinking farmer participation in agricultural development
Gaborone is Growing like a Baby
(Post)development and Post-colonialism
The Institutional Condition of Contested Hydropower
On New Social Movements and ‘The Reinvention of India’
Development Eco-Logics
Development critiques in the 1990s
Jonathan Crush (1995) Power of Development
Fragmented marginalities
Paper Works
Development and divergent post-disaster trajectories in a mountain village
Conflict in abundance and peacebuilding in scarcity
The negotiability of state legal and bureaucratic authority during land occupations in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean Farm Workers in Northern South Africa
Strange powers
In the name of sovereignty
This time it’s different
Colonised minds? Post-development theory and the desirability of development in Africa
Foucault in the Landscape
Performing Development in Street Markets
The Duty of Water
Sentimental Capitalism in Contemporary India
Pumpkins Just Got in There”
Articulating sedimented subjectivities
Grassland management and views of nature in China since 1949
Hydrocarbons, popular protest and national imaginaries
Wetland conservation
Sustainable developmentality
Cooperation, Land Use, and the Environment in Uxin Ju
Tropes of Indolence and the Cultural Politics of Development in Lhasa, Tibet
Custom and Contradiction
Contested understandings of yaks on the eastern Tibetan Plateau
The unbearable modernity of ‘development’? Canal irrigation and development planning in Western India
Place-based understanding of Chilika fishery
Imagined Borders
Circular Migration and the Spaces of Cultural Assertion
Situating Zimbabwe's natural resource governance systems in history
The Provocations of Neoliberalism
Geography and development
Performative citizenship and the politics of scale
Is Good Policy Unimplementable? Reflections on the Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
State Making and the Politics of the Frontier in Central Benin
Guns and rain
The Roots of rural poverty in Central and Southern Africa
Land in African agrarian systems
The social consequences of resettlement
Peasant consciousness and guerrilla war in Zimbabwe.
Peasants, traders, and wives
The Development dictionary
The rise & fall of development theory
This Fissured Land
Governance and Development
Peasant and Nation
Doctrines Of Development
Misreading the African Landscape
Crafting the Third World
State Politics in Zimbabwe
The surplus people
Economy and society in pre-industrial South Africa
Europe and the people without history
A Preponderance of Power
Peasant Intellectuals
The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa
Power of Development
America's Egypt
From African Socialism to Scientific Capitalism
The Imperial Impact
Africa's Colonial Legacy
Marxism, Ideology and Literature
Transforming the Indonesian Uplands
Involuntary Migration and Resettlement
Transition to Modernity
Territory and State Power in Latin America
Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War
Gramsci's Political Thought
Anthropological Approaches to Resettlement
Reflections on Development in Southeast Asia
Uncertain terms
Colonialism and Culture
Tensions of Empire
An Anthropological Critique of Development
Ethnography through Thick and Thin
Water Used to be Scattered in the Landscape
Coercing conservation
Western hegemony over african agriculture in Southern Rhodesia and its continuing threat to food security in independent zimbabwe
Agrarian Change from above
Development narratives, or making the best of blueprint development
Implementing strategies for the rural economy
False forest history, complicit social analysis
The conservation issue in Zimbabwe
The Governance of the Third World
Discourse and Power in Development
Are There Histories of Peoples Without Europe? A Review Article
Sensual Surfaces and Stylistic Excess
The Problem of Ideology-Marxism without Guarantees
On Postmodernism and Articulation
The Imperial Impact
Post-Cold War capitalism
Europe between the Super Powers
Modernist discourse and the crisis of development theory
Uprooting poverty
Reimagining the Geopolitics of Development
Nationalizing the local past in Sri Lanka
Depression, Dust Bowl, Demography, and Drought
Development I
Postcolonial Developments
Paradigms and politics
Images of Community
Technical development and peasant impoverishment
Scottish missionaries, evangelical discourses and the origins of conservation thinking in Southern Africa 1820-1900
Maps, names, and ethnic games
Soil erosion, conservationism and ideas about development
Peasants, businessmen, and moral economy in the Chiweshe reserve, colonial Zimbabwe, 1930-1968
Culture, Voice and Development
On Development Theory and the Warren Thesis
Understandings of 'Development
Colonialism and Development
The Origin and Course of Fabian Colonialism in Africa
The New Cultural Politics of Difference
Giving Orders in Rural Southern Rhodesia
Coercive Development
The White Man's Task in Tropical Africa
The Phantom Gringo Boat
Imagining a Post-Development Era? Critical Thought, Development and Social Movements
Seeing Like a State
The Anthropology of Colonialism
Ecological Change and the Politics of African Land Use
Colonial Governmentality
Production and Autonomy
Forever Gained
Subaltern Struggles and the Politics of Place
The Credible and the Credulous
Power and Visibility
Discourse, Politics, and the Development Process
Blurred Boundaries
Anthropology and the development encounter
Rituals of Development
The Fractured Community
The Politics of Difference
Whose Cultural Studies
Peasant and Nation
Gender and Land Reform
| Unique citing works | 145 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,37 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 143 |