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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791577603321

Titolo

The hidden dimensions of Operation Murambatsvina [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Maurice T. Vambe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harare, : Weaver Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-86895-0

9786612868955

1-77922-119-3

1-77922-118-5

1-77922-092-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VambeMaurice Taonezvi

Soggetti

Operation Murambatsvina, Zimbabwe, 2005-

Human rights - Zimbabwe

Squatter settlements - Zimbabwe

Urban poor - Zimbabwe

Political persecution - Zimbabwe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction - Rethinking Citizen & Subject in Zimbabwe; Part One - Historicising Murambatsvina; 1 - Historical Antecedents to Operation Murambatsvina; 2 - Coercion, Consent, Context Operation Murambatsvina & ZANU (PF)'s Illusory Quest for Hegemony; 3 - Discourses of Dirt and Disease in Operatio Murambatsvina; Part Two - The Hidden Impacts of Operation Murambatsvina; 4 - Displacement and livelihoods: the longer term impacts of Operation Murambatsvina

5 - Eschatology, Magic, nature and Politics The Responses of the People of Epworth to the Tragedy of Operation Murambatsvina 6 - Murambatsvina's Assault on Women's Legal and Economic Rights An Interview with a Cross-border Small Trader; 7 - Bulldozers Always Come ""Maggots"", Citizens and Governance in Contemporary Zimbabwe; Part Three - Representations of Murambatsvina in Popular Media; 8 - Worlds Apart Representations of Operation Murambatsvina



in Two Zimbabwean Weeklies; 9 - Cartooning Murambatsvina Representation of Operation Murambatsvina Through Press Cartoons

10 - The Chichidodo Syndrome Rehearsals of Operation Murambatsvina in Zimbabwean Literature and Popular Songs Part Four - Official Responses to Operation Murambatsvina; 11 - The Zimbabwe Government's Responses to Criticism of Operation Murambatsvina; 12 - Reading the 2005 Tibaijuka Report on Zimbabwe in a GLobal Context; Notes of Contributors; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

In his introduction to The Hidden Dimensions Maurice Vambe argues that the treatment of people as 'human dirt' demands the notion of citizenship in Zimbabwe be rethought.