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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827553803321
• Autore: Kriger Norma J.
• 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.