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Guerrilla Veterans in Post-war Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980-1987 by Norma J. Kriger 9780521027618

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Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation. In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama a historical background, and shows continuities between the present and past. Between 1980 and 1987, guerrilla veterans and the ruling party colluded with and manipulated each other to build power and privilege in the army, police, bureaucracy and among workers. Both relied chiefly on violence and appeals to their participation in the anti-colonial liberation war as they sought to vanquish their then political opponents. Today, violence and a liberation war discourse continue to be salient as Mugabe's party and its guerrilla veterans struggle to maintain power through land invasions and purges of a new political opposition. This study gives a critical review of guerrilla programs and the war-to-peace transitions literatures, thus changing the way we view post-conflict societies.

This book examines the peace settlement and veterans' programmes after Zimbabwe's guerrilla war of independence.

About the Author
Norma Kriger worked for twelve years in the political science faculty at The John Hopkins University. Since then she has been an independent scholar.

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'Kriger's book is a source of enlightenment about the commitment of the ruling party and guerrilla veterans in post-colonial Zimbabwe.' E-Extreme
'... an important piece of research, highly relevant to what is going on today in Zimbabwe.' The Round Table
'... an important corrective to those who fail to see the seeds of the country's current crisis in its history.' Development and Change



Book Information
ISBN 9780521027618
Author Norma J. Kriger
Format Paperback
Page Count 316
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 475g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 20mm

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