Eleven Guilty Men from Goredema: Parallel Justice and the Moralities of Local Administration in Northwestern Zimbabwe

Authors

  • Eric Worby Yale University

Abstract

In the late 1980s, at a time when the newly independent Zimbabwean state was still struggling to fortify local organs of legal and development administration, a group of male collaterals in the northwestern district of Gokwe was inventing a parallel corporate structure for purposes of limited self-governance. This article narrates the dramatic events consequent upon a case of rape and incest, using it as a point of departure to explore how spheres of local jurisdiction may be carved out and tested, and the morality of state intervention ultimately contested, by a newly imagined, if deeply patriarchal, form of civil society.

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Author Biography

Eric Worby, Yale University

Eric Worby's research has focussed on agrarian commoditization, property relations, ethnicity and the state and development discourse and practice in southern Africa and south Asia. He has been a researcher with the Centre for Applied Social Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe in 1988-89, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow with the Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 1992-94 and a member of the Department of Anthropology at McGill University from 1994-96. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and a member of the African Studies Council at Yale University.

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Published

2022-06-07

How to Cite

Worby, E. (2022). Eleven Guilty Men from Goredema: Parallel Justice and the Moralities of Local Administration in Northwestern Zimbabwe. Anthropologica, 39(1-2), 71–77. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2053

Issue

Vol. 39 No. 1-2 (1997)

Section

Fictions of Law

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