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Timothy Scarnec The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence (Paperback)
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- Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe : Harare and Highfield, 1940-1964
- Publication Name
- The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe
- Title
- The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe
- Subtitle
- Harare and Highfield, 1940-1964
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1580463630
- EAN
- 9781580463638
- ISBN
- 9781580463638
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Press
- Genre
- Literary Collections, Social Science, Political Science
- Release Year
- 2013
- Release Date
- 01/08/2013
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Series
- Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Topic
- General, Violence in Society, Political Ideologies / Democracy, World / African, African
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 13.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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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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Publisher
University of Rochester Press
ISBN-10
1580463630
ISBN-13
9781580463638
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160038143
Product Key Features
Book Title
Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe : Harare and Highfield, 1940-1964
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Violence in Society, Political Ideologies / Democracy, World / African, African
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Literary Collections, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
35
Lc Classification Number
Dt2972.S28 2013
Volume Number
35
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[An] original and intriguing book. [.] Scarnecchia skilfully moves his analysis between the local, national and international dimensions of the nationalist struggle in order to show how the deepening fault lines of class, gender and nation undermined the coherence of the nationalist movement and fuelled a politics of intimidation. In doing so he effectively undermines Zimbabwe's nationalist historiography of anticolonial triumph, and adds a valuable contribution to a growing revisionist historiography of African nationalism that seeks new explanations for the pernicious tendencies of African regimes. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES 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 Scarnecchia's exploration of the roots of nationalist violence in Zimbabwe is an important and provocative work that is sure to incite debate, not least because of its salience for the current crisis in Zimbabwe. --AFRICAN HISTORY Volume 50, 2009 [Gary Kynoch]
Table of Content
Charles Mzingeli's Leadership and Imperial Working-Class CitizenshipTownship Protest PoliticsResistance to the Urban Areas Act and Women's Political InfluenceChanging Tactics: Youth League Politics and the End of AccommodationThe Early Sixties: Violent Protest and "Sellout" PoliticsThe "Imperialist Stooge" and New Levels of "Sellout" Political Violence
Copyright Date
2013
Dewey Decimal
968.9103
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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