1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449675303321

Autore

Kriger Norma J.

Titolo

Guerrilla veterans in post-war Zimbabwe : symbolic and violent politics, 1980-1987 / / Norma J. Kriger [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003

ISBN

0-521-53770-3

1-107-13536-2

1-280-43455-4

1-139-14862-1

0-511-18008-X

0-511-06133-1

0-511-05500-5

0-511-33090-1

0-511-49216-2

0-511-06979-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

African studies ; ; 103

Disciplina

968.9105/1

Soggetti

Political violence - Zimbabwe

Veterans - Political activity - Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Politics and government 1980-

Zimbabwe History Chimurenga War, 1966-1980 Veterans

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Introduction -- ; 2. The peace settlement -- ; 3. The assembly phase -- ; 4. Military integration -- ; 5. Employment programs for the demobilized -- ; 6. Conclusion -- Epilogue: the past in the present -- ; App. The ruling party's attempts to withdraw ex-combatants' special status and ex-combatants' responses, 1988-1997.

Sommario/riassunto

Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation. In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama a historical background, and shows continuities between the present and past. Between 1980 and 1987, guerrilla veterans and the ruling party



colluded with and manipulated each other to build power and privilege in the army, police, bureaucracy and among workers. Both relied chiefly on violence and appeals to their participation in the anti-colonial liberation war as they sought to vanquish their then political opponents. Today, violence and a liberation war discourse continue to be salient as Mugabe's party and its guerrilla veterans struggle to maintain power through land invasions and purges of a new political opposition. This study gives a critical review of guerrilla programs and the war-to-peace transitions literatures, thus changing the way we view post-conflict societies.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792965703321

Autore

Villarreal Gabriela Zamorano <1974->

Titolo

Indigenous media and political imaginaries in contemporary Bolivia / / Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4962-0170-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Disciplina

984.05/42

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Bolivia - Politics and government

Indigenous peoples and mass media - Bolivia

Motion pictures - Political aspects - Bolivia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Past insurrections, imagined futures -- The Plan Nacional, a process of indigenous communication -- Indigenous media makers as political subjects -- The political possibilities of fiction -- Disputes for indigeneity -- Narrative and aesthetics -- Politics of distribution -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

"Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal examines the political dimension of indigenous media production and distribution as a means by which indigenous organizations articulate new claims on national politics in



Bolivia, a country experiencing one of the most notable cases of social mobilization and indigenous-based constitutional transformation in contemporary Latin America. Based on fieldwork in Bolivia from 2005 to 2007, Zamorano Villarreal details how grassroots indigenous media production has been instrumental to indigenous political demands for a Constituent Assembly and for implementing the new Constitution within Evo Morales controversial administration."--Provided by publisher.