Toxification of national holidays and national identity in Zimbabwe's post-2000 nationalism

Mpofu, Shepherd

doi:10.1080/13696815.2015.1062354

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“…Mpofu (2016, pp. 40–41) described the construction of Zimbabwean identity and processes of marginalisation and stigmatisation as tightly interlinked under President Robert Mugabe.…”

Section: Depoliticising Disaster Response In Authoritarian Lic Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Here, pro‐democracy movements are pictured as part of a ‘recolonisation agenda’, and ‘the West’ is described as ‘using the MDC to plunder Zimbabwe's gains of independence’. In response, ‘Mugabe subtly clustered the MDCs, the West and the Bretton Woods institutions together as Zimbabwe's enemies’ (Mpofu, 2016, p. 32).…”

Section: Depoliticising Disaster Response In Authoritarian Lic Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Depoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016–19 droughts in Zimbabwe

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Moyo-Nyoni

2022

Disasters

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Responding to disasters triggered by natural hazards is a deeply political process, but it is usually presented by practitioners as an apolitical endeavour. This is striking when disasters occur in authoritarian and politically highly polarised conflict‐affected settings. Although the literature provides leads as to why and how humanitarians depoliticise aid, there has been little empirical research on the implications of depoliticisation, especially at the community level. Based on qualitative fieldwork that focused on the drought responses that overlapped with the 2016–19 sociopolitical crises in Zimbabwe, this paper details the practices, motivations, and implications of humanitarian depoliticisation. It differentiates between strategic, coerced, and routine managerial depoliticisation, and argues that, in an authoritarian conflict‐affected setting, depoliticisation strategically allows state and non‐state actors to defuse sensitive issues and actor relations and to remain safe. However, depoliticisation can also have implications for information management, monitoring, accountability, and protection, and thus ultimately for upholding humanitarian principles.

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“…Mpofu (2016, pp. 40–41) described the construction of Zimbabwean identity and processes of marginalisation and stigmatisation as tightly interlinked under President Robert Mugabe.…”

Section: Depoliticising Disaster Response In Authoritarian Lic Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Depoliticising Disaster Response In Authoritarian Lic Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Depoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016–19 droughts in Zimbabwe

Desportes

Moyo-Nyoni

2022

Disasters

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“…Having the president campaigning for ZANU PF at public or national events is not a new thing in Zimbabwe. Former president Robert Mugabe was notoriously known for using public holidays and national platforms to campaign for ZANU PF and lambast opposition parties and those who did not support him (Mpofu, 2016). Mpofu (2016) posits that the state has popularly used national holidays and public functions to campaign.…”

Section: National Dress Construction In Zimbabwementioning

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Negotiating national identity in postcolonial Zimbabwe through a national dress

Chitima

2022

Nations and Nationalism

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A national dress is a reflection of national consciousness towards the nation and its cultural heritage. Instead of simply being functional, a national dress is also a script that exhibits people's identities. This study examines how Zimbabweans identify with the national dress as a facet of achieving national identity. Qualitative research methods and Gramscianism were employed in the study. It is revealed that the majority of Zimbabweans fail to identify with the national dress due to political, cultural and economic reasons. The national dress is perceived as a campaign strategy being used by the state to achieve political expediency and to be seen as champion of moral as well as cultural regeneration. Some participants associate the dress with cultural imperialism and waste of resources. Very few participants take the dress as a positive step towards the decolonisation of cultural spaces and identities. Conclusively, the majority of Zimbabweans find the dress insignificant in their lives and in national identity construction.

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“…Nation building from above also comes in the form of symbolic construction and action, including monuments (Cummings 2013;Forest and Johnson 2011), state museums (Mitchell 2016), and public holidays (Mpofu 2016;Petrone 2000). Through these avenues, elites articulate who are the nation's important figures and events, provide guidance on how people should remember them, and link their example to how people should act and feel about their nation in the present.…”

Section: Nation Building From Above and Belowmentioning

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Democratic and Autocratic Nation Building

Stewart

2020

Nationalities Papers

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There are two main trends in the field of nation-building studies. One subset of the field focuses on democratic nation building, seeking to answer questions of how people can live together in divided societies and presenting institutional recommendations. The other subset examines autocratic nation building, or how those in power utilize nation building to maintain their position of dominance. Scholars examine both types of nation building from above, examining government policies and elite action, and from below, analyzing the practices and emotions of non-elites. While there has been much progress in the field of nation-building studies, I suggest that we focus more on the conceptual differences between democratic and autocratic nation building, address the interactions of elites and non-elites in nation-building practices, and disaggregate analyses to take into account in-country variation in nation building.

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Toxification of national holidays and national identity in Zimbabwe's post-2000 nationalism

Cited by 15 publications

References 23 publications

Depoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016–19 droughts in Zimbabwe

Depoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016–19 droughts in Zimbabwe

Negotiating national identity in postcolonial Zimbabwe through a national dress

Democratic and Autocratic Nation Building

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