Knowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabwe

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dc.contributor.advisorGreen, Lesleyen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorRoss, Fiona Cen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorNhemachena, Artwellen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-26T14:06:08Z
dc.date.available2015-05-26T14:06:08Z
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explored how villagers in a district of Manicaland province of Zimbabwe deeply affected by violence and want survived the violence that has characterised Zimbabwe’s most recent politics (from the year 2000). Marked by invasions of white owned farms, by interparty violence, interpersonal violence as well as witchcraft related violence, the period posed immense challenges to life and limb. Yet institutions of welfare, security and law enforcement were not equal to the task of ensuring survival necessitating questions about the sufficiency of “modern” institutions of law enforcement, media, politics, economy and health in guaranteeing survival in moments of want. How villagers survived the contexts of immense want, acute shortages of cash, basic commodities, formal unemployment levels of over ninety percent, hyperinflation (which in 2008 reached over 231 million percent) and direct physical violence is cause for wonder for scholarship of everyday life. Based on ethnographic data gathered over a period of fifteen months, the dissertation interrogates how villagers survived these challenges. Unlike much scholarship on Zimbabwe’s ‘crisis’, it takes seriously matters of knowing and ontology with respect to chivanhu (erroneously understood as “tradition” of the Shona people).en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationNhemachena, A. (2014). <i>Knowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabwe</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12835en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationNhemachena, Artwell. <i>"Knowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabwe."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12835en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNhemachena, A. 2014. Knowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabwe. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Nhemachena, Artwell AB - This dissertation explored how villagers in a district of Manicaland province of Zimbabwe deeply affected by violence and want survived the violence that has characterised Zimbabwe’s most recent politics (from the year 2000). Marked by invasions of white owned farms, by interparty violence, interpersonal violence as well as witchcraft related violence, the period posed immense challenges to life and limb. Yet institutions of welfare, security and law enforcement were not equal to the task of ensuring survival necessitating questions about the sufficiency of “modern” institutions of law enforcement, media, politics, economy and health in guaranteeing survival in moments of want. How villagers survived the contexts of immense want, acute shortages of cash, basic commodities, formal unemployment levels of over ninety percent, hyperinflation (which in 2008 reached over 231 million percent) and direct physical violence is cause for wonder for scholarship of everyday life. Based on ethnographic data gathered over a period of fifteen months, the dissertation interrogates how villagers survived these challenges. Unlike much scholarship on Zimbabwe’s ‘crisis’, it takes seriously matters of knowing and ontology with respect to chivanhu (erroneously understood as “tradition” of the Shona people). DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Knowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabwe TI - Knowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabwe UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12835 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/12835
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationNhemachena A. Knowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabwe. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies, 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12835en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentAfrican Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherSocial Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.titleKnowledge, chivanhu and struggles for survival in conflict-torn Manicaland, Zimbabween_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_ZA
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