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Everyday crisis-living in contemporary Zimbabwe / edited by Kirk Helliker, Sandra Bhatasara and Manase Kudzai Chiweshe

Helliker, Kirk [Herausgeber] ; Bhatasara, Sandra [Herausgeber] ; Chiweshe, Manase Kudzai [Herausgeber]

London ; New York : Routledge, 2021

London : Taylor & Francis Group

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 195 Seiten) : Illustrationen

Routledge contemporary Africa series

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-00-302632-7 ; 978-0-367-86310-4

 

Simbabwe  Gesellschaft  Soziale Situation  Krise  Wirtschaftliche Lage  Wirtschaftskrise  f Aufsatzsammlung  

 

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"This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe. Throughout the literature of Zimbabwean studies, a consideration of everyday lives has been limited to informal trading and rarely applied as an analytical framework, despite the importance of understanding crisis-living with reference to the specific character of national crises across the African continent. This edited volume is one of the first in its field to theorise everyday Zimbabwean lives within the context of crisis, with three central themes addressed: urban and rural lives; men, women and HIV; and along and beyond the border. Chapters incorporate topics from child marriage and sexual practices, to climate change and social accountability, encompassing a shift in focus from macro-structures to how farm labourers, students, child-brides and other ordinary people negotiate gender, class and social dynamics within a dominant order. The introductory chapter offers an innovative analytical framing for the empirical chapters which follow, each providing micro-studies based on original qualitative fieldwork by early-career Zimbabwean scholars. Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, anthropology and African Studies more broadly"--...