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Progress in Zimbabwe?

In this edited collection, scholars from Zimbabwe and abroad contribute essays that deepen our understanding of the causes, dynamics and consequences of Zimbabwe's current crisis. The volume includes considerations of the dynamics of accumulation and power in Zimbabwe, historiographical perspectives, civil society and state relations, workers' and peasants' responses to Zimbabwe's crisis, and debates on foreign investment, land reform and the relevance of the concept of the National Democratic Revolution to Zimbabwe and South Africa's relations with it. The theme of progress a concept underpinning modern, liberal and radical perspectives of development unifies these disparate issues. The book engages in debates about how the idea of progress informs present and past analyses of Zimbabwe.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

David Moore is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg.

Norma Kriger is a Researcher in the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg.

Brian Raftopoulos is Director of Research and Advocacy for the Solidarity Peace Trust, and Mellon Senior Research Mentor, Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape.

Progress in Zimbabwe?

The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

Edited by
David Moore, Norma Kriger and Brian Raftopoulos

First published 2013
by Routledge
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2013 The Institute of Social and Economic Research

This book is a reproduction of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, vol. 30, issue 1. The Publisher requests to those authors who may be citing this book to state, also, the bibliographical details of the special issue on which the book was based.

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ISBN13: 978-0-415-59465-3

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Publisher's Note
The publisher would like to make readers aware that the chapters in this book are referred to as articles as they had been in the special issue. The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen in the course of preparing this volume for print.

Contents

David Moore

Norma Kriger

Ian Phimister

Kirk Helliker

Martin Dawson and Tim Kelsall

Booker Magure

Tapiwa Chagonda

Vusilizwe Thebe

David Moore

John Hoffman

Blair Rutherford

The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Chapter 1

Progress, power, and violent accumulation in Zimbabwe
David Moore
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012)
pp. 110

Chapter 2

ZANU PF politics under Zimbabwe' Power-Sharing Government
Norma Kriger
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012)
pp. 1126

Chapter 3

Narratives of progress: Zimbabwean historiography and the end of history
Ian Phimister
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012)
pp. 2734

Chapter 4

Civil society and state-centred struggles
Kirk Helliker
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012)
pp. 3548

Chapter 5

Anti-developmental patrimonialism in Zimbabwe
Martin Dawson and Tim Kelsall
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012)
pp. 4966

Chapter 6

Foreign investment, black economic empowerment and militarised patronage politics in Zimbabwe
Booker Magure
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012)
pp. 6782

Chapter 7

Teachers' and bank workers' responses to Zimbabwe' crisis: uneven effects, different strategies
Tapiwa Chagonda
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012)
pp. 8398

Chapter 8

New realities and tenure reforms: land-use in worker-peasant communities of southwestern Zimbabwe (1940s2006)
Vusilizwe Thebe
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012)
pp. 99118

Chapter 9

Two perspectives on Zimbabwe' National Democratic Revolution: Thabo Mbeki and Wilfred Mhanda
David Moore
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012)
pp. 119138

Chapter 10

Reflections on the concept of progress and Zimbabwe
John Hoffman
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012)
pp. 139146

Chapter 11

Shifting the debate on land reform, poverty and inequality in Zimbabwe, an engagement with Zimbabwe' Land Reform: Myths and Realities
Blair Rutherford
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 30, issue 1 (January 2012)
pp. 147157

David Moore

Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Zimbabwe's recent travails have challenged the concept of progress as it is popularly conceived, as they have forced social scientists to revisit many of the verities of nationalist history and the initial euphoria of Zimbabwean liberation. Critics of fast-track land reform and patriotism, however, have been as simplistic as the regime's academic praise singers, and often simply turn celebratory scholarship upside down. Historically rooted and specifically applied concepts of primitive accumulation can assist the understanding of the development of Zimbabwe's coercive networks of accumulation and their more recent manifestations, but they do not solve the problems of how to lessen violence and deepen democracy in the short term.

As Roger Southall raised the idea for this special edition of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies many years ago, the popular political theorist John Gray's gloomy reflections on the idea of progress seemed to be very relevant to Zimbabwe. Gray's

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