'Progress' in Zimbabwe?: The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

ISBN-13: 9780415594653 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 168 str.

Brian Raftopoulos

Opis

Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response.

Spis treści

1. Progress, power, and violent accumulation in Zimbabwe  2. ZANU PF politics under Zimbabwe’s ‘Power-Sharing’ Government  3. Narratives of progress: Zimbabwean historiography and the end of history  4. Civil society and state-centred struggles  5. Anti-developmental patrimonialism in Zimbabwe  6. Foreign investment, black economic empowerment and militarised patronage politics in Zimbabwe  7. Teachers’ and bank workers’ responses to Zimbabwe’s crisis: uneven effects, different strategies  8. ‘New realities’ and tenure reforms: land-use in worker-peasant communities of south-western Zimbabwe (1940s-2006)  9. Two perspectives on Zimbabwe’s National Democratic Revolution: Thabo Mbeki and Wilfred Mhanda  10. Reflections on the concept of progress - and Zimbabwe  11. Shifting the debate on land reform, poverty and inequality in Zimbabwe, an engagement with Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: Myths and Realities

O autorze

David Moore is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Norma Kriger is Visiting Fellow at the Institute for African Development, Cornell University, USA.