The hidden dimensions of Operation Murambatsvina / / edited by Maurice T. Vambe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910975229703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Harare, : Weaver Press, c2008
• ISBN: 9786612868955; 9781282868953; 1282868950; 9781779221193; 1779221193; 9781779221186; 1779221185; 9781779220929; 1779220928
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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.