The ‘Hardcore’ Student Activist: The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU), State Violence, and Frustrated Masculinity, 2000–2008

Hodgkinson, Dan

doi:10.1080/03057070.2013.858538

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“…But the MDC and its civil society allies deployed their own polarizing rhetoric, reinforced us/them boundaries, and, especially within the grassroots structures, rejected any movement toward moderation or compromise. As time passed, the MDC created its own parallel structures that did not shy away from using violence and coercion to enforce party aims (LeBas 2006), and a culture of aggressive “hardcore activism” took root in some of the MDC’s affiliated structures (Hodgkinson 2013).…”

Section: Opposition Emergence and Pernicious Polarization 2000–2013mentioning

confidence: 99%

Elite Conflict, Compromise, and Enduring Authoritarianism: Polarization in Zimbabwe, 1980–2008

LeBas¹,

Munemo²

2018

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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How do elites play a role in crafting polarization? And what effects do elite-led conflicts have on democracy and mass politics? To examine these questions, we compare two separate episodes of party-based polarization in Zimbabwe, from 1980 to 1987 and from 2000 to 2008. Each of these moments of polarization ended in an elite power-sharing settlement, but a comparison of the two moments yields insights about both the causes of polarization and its effects. We find that the episodes of polarization were rooted in elite instrumentalization of conflict. They differed, however, in the extent to which they activated foundational myths and built larger master cleavages. We suggest that the latter episode conforms more closely to McCoy, Rahman, and Somer’s pernicious polarization, which we argue is marked by deeper societal penetration and segregation than other forms of political polarization and is also less amenable to resolution.

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Section: Opposition Emergence and Pernicious Polarization 2000–2013mentioning

confidence: 99%

Elite Conflict, Compromise, and Enduring Authoritarianism: Polarization in Zimbabwe, 1980–2008

LeBas¹,

Munemo²

2018

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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“…What this brief background suggests is that Chamisa, and other activists who now hold influential top and middle-level positions in the MDC party, started as student activists (Hodgkinson, 2013). This has significantly changed the MDC's outlook from being a labor-activism-inspired party to being student-activist-inspired.…”

Section: Early Years Of Chamisamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This literature has diverse empirical foci in examining the MDC party, including its successive electoral failures, its involvement in consociation-type politics during the Inclusive Government (IG) era (2009–2013) and its internal democratic deficits. Similarly, there is some emerging and significant research on post-2017 politics in Zimbabwe (Beardsworth et al, 2019; Hodgkinson, 2013; Lewanika, 2019; Tendi, 2020a). However, this corpus of literature does not focus on Nelson Chamisa’s MDC during and post the November 2017 transition.…”

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confidence: 99%

Movement for Democratic Change and the Rise of Nelson Chamisa

Mwonzora

Hodzi

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Nelson Chamisa is central to the political terrain of contemporary Zimbabwe. Post the soft coup of November 2017 and the death of Morgan Tsvangirai in early 2018, Chamisa became president of the Movement for Democratic Change party and contested the July 2018 presidential election. The tempo of changes in the Movement for Democratic Change presidency is not related directly to the shift from Mugabe to Mnangagwa. However, broader politics formed an important context for Chamisa’s contested claim for the Movement for Democratic Change presidency. In examining Chamisa and the Movement for Democratic Change, the article highlights linkages between personality politics and electoral mobilization, and how this relates to political party institutionalization.

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“…The idea was to consolidate political hegemony by imposing control over the largely volatile and restless university students (Mbiba, 2015). 1 This is so because university students, especially those from the Zimbabwe National Student Union (ZINASU), and academics have been some of the most vocal and consistent critics of Mugabe's rule and government (Hodgkinson, 2013;Mlambo, 2013;Zeilig, 2006Zeilig, , 2008Muzulu, 2016). 2 Indeed, for Mlambo (2013: 183), students became the government's staunchest critics in the 1990s, as economic crisis, public corruption and misgovernment peaked.…”

Section: Mugabe University Controlmentioning

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Surveillance, Spying and Disciplining the University: Deployment of State Security Agents on Campus in Zimbabwe

Gukurume

2019

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This article examines the deployment of government spies and state security agents on a university campus in Zimbabwe and the implications this has on knowledge production at the university. The campus is presented as a socio-political space in which everyday political struggles are fought. I argue that surveillance is an intractable part of the rhythms of everyday life on campus, and a very specific form of ‘bio-power’, ‘biopolitics’ and violence meant to discipline students and lecturers, as well as the ways in which knowledge is produced and sedimented. Habitualisation of surveillance and fear of surveillance generate Foucauldian ‘panopticon’: producing ‘self-censorship’ on campus.

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The ‘Hardcore’ Student Activist: The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU), State Violence, and Frustrated Masculinity, 2000–2008

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Cited by 18 publications

References 3 publications

Elite Conflict, Compromise, and Enduring Authoritarianism: Polarization in Zimbabwe, 1980–2008

Elite Conflict, Compromise, and Enduring Authoritarianism: Polarization in Zimbabwe, 1980–2008

Movement for Democratic Change and the Rise of Nelson Chamisa

Surveillance, Spying and Disciplining the University: Deployment of State Security Agents on Campus in Zimbabwe

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