1st Edition

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

Edited By David Moore, Norma Kriger, Brian Raftopoulos Copyright 2013
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

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. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation. At wider levels too, the concept of progress is fitting. It underpins 'modern', 'liberal' and... Read more

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

Biography

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.