Guerrilla veterans in post-war Zimbabwe : symbolic and violent politics, 1980-1987 / Norma J. Kriger.

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Kriger, Norma J

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TextSeries: African studies series ; 103.Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 293 pages) : mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0511061331
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9780511069796
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Guerrilla veterans in post-war Zimbabwe.DDC classification:

968.9105/1 22

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DT2996 .K75 2003eb

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Contents:

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 -- App. The ruling party's attempts to withdraw ex-combatants' special status and ex-combatants' responses, 1988-1997.

Review: "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 an 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.Summary: 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."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-283) and index.

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"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 an 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."--Jacket.

English.

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