- Gebundene Ausgabe: 220 Seiten
- Verlag: Univ of Rochester Pr (Oktober 2008)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1580462812
- ISBN-13: 978-1580462815
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,4 x 15,5 x 2 cm
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Scarnecchia lays down a challenge to those who would have us believe that contemporary Zimbabwe was forged in the struggle between African nationalists and white supremacists. With painstaking research, Scarnecchia shows how the troubled politics of Zimbabwe have their roots in the African politics of the 1940s and beyond, when Africans were able to manipulate, and be manipulated by, the imperial retreat, decolonization, and Cold War rivalries. Scarnecchia recuperates the politics and struggles within the townships of Southern Rhodesia, where trade unionists and politicians, youth leagues and women's organizations, created democratic spaces for themselves, and, almost as often, deployed violence to destroy the populist spaces of their rivals. --Luise White, Professor of History, University of Florida Tim Scarnecchia's study of the urban roots of Zimbabwean nationalism offers an important and original exploration of the ways in which violence, generation, and gender shape political mobilization and political culture. He traces the carefully negotiated rise of demands for "imperial citizenship" among working class men and women of the 1950s, and their displacement in the 1960s by violent politics in which the quest for power and loyalty placed the language of the sellout and young men center stage. This latter version of nationalism won out, and continues powerfully to shape Zimbabwe today. --Jocelyn Alexander, University Lecturer in Commonwealth Studies, University of Oxford
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"The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe" details a democratic tradition developed in the 1940s and 1950s, and a movement that would fall victim to an increasingly elitist and divisive political culture by the 1960s. Providing biographical sketches of key personalities within the genealogy of nationalist politics, Timothy Scarnecchia weaves an intricate narrative that traces the trajectories of earlier democratic traditions in Zimbabwe, including women's political movements, township organizations, and trade unions.This work suggests that intense rivalries for control of the nationalist leadership after 1960, the 'sell-out' politics of that period, and Cold War funding for rival groups contributed to a unique political impasse, ultimately resulting in the largely autocratic and violent political state today. The author further proposes that this recourse to political violence, 'top-down' nationalism, and the abandonment of urban democratic traditions are all hallmarks of a particular type of nationalism equally unsustainable in Zimbabwe then as it is now. Timothy Scarnecchia is assistant professor of African history at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
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