Norma J. Kriger

Guerrilla Veterans in Post-war Zimbabwe (eBook, PDF)

Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980-1987

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511055003
• Artikelnr.: 38199072

Autorenporträt

Norma Kriger worked for twelve years in the political science faculty at The John Hopkins University. Since then she has been an independent scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
Acknowledgements
Chronology (1889-1980)
List of abbreviations
Map
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
Appendix: the ruling party's attempts to withdraw ex-combatants' special status and ex-combatants' responses, 1988-97
Notes
References
List of pseudonyms used in the text
Index.