"We Wanted Change Yesterday!" The Promise and Perils of Poritikisi: Zimbabwean Farm Workers, Party Politics and Critical Social Science

Authors

  • Blair Rutherford Carleton University

Keywords:

Zimbabwe, politics, critique, farm workers, land struggles, political anthropology

Abstract

In this article, I examine the entanglement of an emergent political imagination of "democracy" with the forms and meanings of poritikisi, party politics, for a group of farm workers involved in labour and land struggles in Zimbabwe from 1999 to 2003. In so doing, I seek to provide more insight into the on-going political and economic crises in this southern African country, while putting forth an analytic to ethnographically examine the effects of party politics. I also raise questions about the use of politics in critical social science.

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Published

2022-06-30

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Rutherford, B. (2022). "We Wanted Change Yesterday!" The Promise and Perils of Poritikisi: Zimbabwean Farm Workers, Party Politics and Critical Social Science. Anthropologica, 51(2), 381–394. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2571

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Vol. 51 No. 2 (2009): Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Fear

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