Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe

The Ground of Politics

Blair Rutherford (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

294 Seiten

2016
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-02403-9 (ISBN)

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In the early twenty-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly violent struggle between national electoral politics, land reform, and contestations over democracy. Were the black occupiers being freed from racist bondage as cheap laborers by the state-supported massive land redistribution, or were they victims of state violence who had been denied access to their homes, social services, and jobs? Blair Rutherford examines the unequal social and power relations shaping the lives, livelihoods, and struggles of some of the farm workers during this momentous period in Zimbabwean history. His analysis is anchored in the time he spent on a horticultural farm just east of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, that was embroiled in the tumult of political violence associated with jambanja, the democratization movement. Rutherford complicates this analysis by showing that there was far more in play than political oppression by a corrupt and authoritarian regime and a movement to rectify racial and colonial land imbalances, as dominant narratives would have it. Instead, he reveals, farm worker livelihoods, access to land, gendered violence, and conflicting promises of rights and sovereignty played a more important role in the political economy of citizenship and labor than had been imagined.

Blair Rutherford is professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology (cross-appointed to the Institute of African Studies, the Institute of Political Economy, and Department of Geography and Environmental Studies) at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1. "Oppression," Maraiti and Farm Worker Livelihoods: Shifting Grounds in the 1990s
2. The Traction of Rights, the Art of Politics: The Labor "War" at Upfumi
3. The Drama of Politics: Dissension, Suffering, and Violence
4. Politics and Precarious Livelihoods during the Time of Jambanja
Conclusion: Representing Labor Struggles
Appendix: Correspondence with the President's Office
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.12.2016
Zusatzinfo	1 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-253-02403-X / 025302403X
ISBN-13	978-0-253-02403-9 / 9780253024039
Zustand	Neuware