Power In Zimbabwe Research Articles

Donald S. Moore, Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005, 424 pp.

Donald S. Moore, Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005, 424 pp.

Suffering for Territory: Race, place and power in Zimbabwe, by Donald S. Moore

Suffering for Territory: Race, place and power in Zimbabwe, by Donald S. Moore

Book Review:Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe, Donald S. Moore

Book Review:<i>Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe</i>, Donald S. Moore

Suffering for Territory: race, place, and power in Zimbabwe by Donald S. Moore Durham, NC &amp; London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. 322. £15.95 (pbk.).

Suffering for Territory: race, place, and power in Zimbabwe by Donald S. Moore Durham, NC &amp; London: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. 322. £15.95 (pbk.).

Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe

Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe

Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe by Donald S. Moore

<i>Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe</i> by Donald S. Moore

Donald S. Moore. Suffering For Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. 424 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $23.95. Paper.

Donald S. Moore. Suffering For Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. 424 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $23.95. Paper. - Volume 49 Issue 3

Reviews: Working Feminism, Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River, Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe

Reviews: Working Feminism, Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River, Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe

Anthropology &amp; Sociology - Donald S. Moore. Suffering For Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. 424 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $23.95. Paper.

Anthropology &amp; Sociology - Donald S. Moore. Suffering For Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. 424 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $23.95. Paper. - Volume 49 Issue 2

Donald S. Moore, Suffering for Territory: race, place and power in Zimbabwe. Durham and London: Duke University Press (pb £15.95 pb – 0 223 3570 0; hb £64.00 – 0 8223 3582 4); Harare: Weaver Press (price not stated – 1 77922 037 5). 2005, 416 pp.

Donald S. Moore, Suffering for Territory: race, place and power in Zimbabwe. Durham and London: Duke University Press (pb £15.95 pb – 0 223 3570 0; hb £64.00 – 0 8223 3582 4); Harare: Weaver Press (price not stated – 1 77922 037 5). 2005, 416 pp.

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Ange Wieberdink, Troubled Waters: The Ambivalence of South–North Partnerships in Research for Development — A Case Study. Nicholas Stern, Jean‐Jacques Dethier and F. Halsey Rogers, Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen. Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe and Johan Pottier (eds), Development and Local Knowledge. Michael Klein and Tim Harford, The Market for Aid. David Ellerman, Helping People Help Themselves. David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Deborah Leipziger, The Corporate Responsibility Code Book. Janet Roitman, Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa. Fay Chung, Re‐Living the Second Chimurenga: Memories from Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle. Norma Kriger, Guerrilla Veterans in Post‐War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics 1980–1987. Donald S. Moore, Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe. Craig Acerneaux and David Pion‐Berlin, Transforming Latin America: The International and Domestic Origins of Change. Rhoda E. Reddock (ed.), Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses. Partha Nath Mukherji and Chandan Sengupta (eds), Indigeneity and Universality in Social Sciences: A South Asian Response. Tamar Horowitz, Bella Kotik‐Friedgut and Stefani Hoffman (eds), From Pacesetters to Dropouts: Post‐Soviet Youth in Comparative Perspective.

Suffering for territory: race, place, and power in Zimbabwe

Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S. Moore probes these contentious politics by analyzing fierce disputes over territory, sovereignty, and subjection in the country’s eastern highlands. He focuses on poor farmers in Kaerezi who endured colonial evictions from their ancestral land and lived as refugees in Mozambique during Zimbabwe’s guerrilla war. After independence in 1980, Kaerezians returned home to a changed landscape. Postcolonial bureaucrats had converted their land from a white ranch into a state resettlement scheme. Those who defied this new spatial order were threatened with eviction. Moore shows how Kaerezians’ predicaments of place pivot on memories of “suffering for territory,” at once an idiom of identity and entitlement. Combining fine-grained ethnography with innovative theoretical insights, this book illuminates the complex interconnections between local practices of power and the wider forces of colonial rule, nationalist politics, and global discourses of development. Moore makes a significant contribution to postcolonial theory with his conceptualization of “entangled landscapes” by articulating racialized rule, situated sovereignties, and environmental resources. Fusing Gramscian cultural politics and Foucault’s analytic of governmentality, he enlists ethnography to foreground the spatiality of power. Suffering for Territory demonstrates how emplaced micro-practices matter, how the outcomes of cultural struggles are contingent on the diverse ways land comes to be inhabited, labored upon, and suffered for.

Suffering for Territory: race, place and power in Zimbabwe (review)

Donald S. Moore, Suffering for Territory: race, place and power in Zimbabwe. Durham and London: Duke University Press (pb £15.95 pb – 0 223 3570 0; hb £64.00 – 0 8223 3582 4); Harare: Weaver Press (price not stated – 1 77922 037 5). 2005, 416 pp. - Volume 76 Issue 3

Degrees in violence: Robert Mugabe and the struggle for power in Zimbabwe

Robert Mugabe is a unique figure among African leaders. Having led the struggle against colonial rule, he has held office uninterruptedly since independence. Now, after 21 years of dominance, Mugabe is waging a bitter struggle to hold power against an opposition born from the spiralling economic and social collapse of Zimbabwe. David Blair, The Foreign Press Association Young Journalist of the Year, was forced to leave Zimbabwe in June 2001 as Robert Mugabe's government sought to silence the media. He left a country in turmoil, gripped by a ferocious battle for power. This book tells the story of Zimbabwe from the hopeful era of new independence to the present reality of petrol queues, food riots and a terror campaign waged by Mugabe supporters. From white farmers who live as if the colonial rule had never ended, to a paraniod government and its often inept oppostion, Blair exposes the incompetence and folly that have led to the crisis in Zimbabwe.

Beyond the house of hunger: democratic struggle in Zimbabwe

In 1980, after more than a decade of armed liberation struggle, ZANU‐PF took power in Zimbabwe. The new government under President Mugabe became increasingly repressive, seeking to force opposition either into alliance with ZANU, or into silence. This authoritarian process appeared to be culminating in a formal one‐party presidentialist state, de facto one‐party rule having being achieved in the late 1980s. This article describes the process and analyses growing opposition to it, both from within ZANU and from groupings within civil society — notably students, workers, peasant communities, and the petty bourgeoisie. In this section the role of the petty bourgeoisie is examined, especially its private sector component. Part two, to be published in ROAPE 55 describes and interprets peasant discontent and worker opposition.

Beyond the house of hunger: democratic struggle in Zimbabwe

In 1980, after more than a decade of armed liberation struggle, ZANU‐PF took power in Zimbabwe. The new government under President Mugabe became increasingly repressive, seeking to force opposition either into alliance with ZANU, or into silence. This authoritarian process appeared to be culminating in a formal one‐party presidentialist state, de facto one‐party rule having being achieved in the late 1980s. This article describes the process and analyses growing opposition to it, both from within ZANU and from groupings within civil society—notably students, workers, peasant communities, and the petty bourgeoisie. In part one (which appeared in ROAPE 54, July 1992), the role of the petty bourgeoisie is examined, especially its private sector component. Part two below describes and interprets peasant discontent and worker opposition.

How a Bill became a Law in Zimbabwe: on the Problem of Transforming the Colonial State

Opening ParagraphOn 18 April 1980, a new black government took power in Zimbabwe. It confronted the widest gap in the world between the very poor and the very rich. Some 6000 white farmers owned farms with an average size of 6000 acres, comprising the best half of the arable land in the country. 800,000 African farmers scratched a living out of the sand and rocks that constituted the other half. Seventy-five per cent of the children of wage workers on the white farms suffered from malnutrition: their parents had a minimum monthly wage of $20 (Rhodesian). Eighty-five per cent of those children had never received a medical examination or visited a clinic. The dismal figures roll on and on.