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The Crucible of Cultural Politics: Reworking "Development" in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands
Author(s) -
Moore Donald S.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1999.26.3.654
Subject(s) - governmentality , politics , nationalism , entitlement (fair division) , sociology , agrarian society , livelihood , colonialism , state (computer science) , gender studies , power (physics) , social science , political economy , political science , law , history , physics , mathematics , mathematical economics , archaeology , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science , agriculture
In this article, I examine the cultural politics of development in a Zimbabwean resettlement scheme, situating state interventions in the deep histories of colonial efforts to discipline rural livelihoods. Popular memories of resistance to colonial conservation, shaped by transnational circuits and constitutive of Zimbabwean nationalism, animate the cultural idioms of entitlement and state power in the 1990s. The contingent micro‐politics of agrarian struggle counter a recent tendency toward discursive determinism in anthropological perspectives on development. [development, cultural politics, practice, nationalism, spatiality, governmentality, southern Africa]