Understanding Zimbabwe

Understanding Zimbabwe
Author: Sara Rich Dorman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780190634889


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This work seeks to understand the state, nation and political identities that are being forged in modern Zimbabwe, and the nature of control that Robert Mugabe's ZANU exercises over those political institutions. Focusing on the perspective and experiences of societal groups including NGOs, churches, trade unions, students and academics the text explores how the construction of consent, threat of coercion and material resources are used to integrate social groups into the ruling nationalist coalition, but also how they resist and frame competing discourses and institutions


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