- Title
- Civil society and state-centred struggles
- Creator
- Helliker, Kirk D
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71231
- Identifier
- vital:29821
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2012.641723
- Description
- This article is about civil society and state-centred struggles in contemporary Zimbabwe. I first identify and outline three current understandings of civil society. Two understandings (one Liberal, one Radical) are state-centric and exist firmly within the logic of state discourses and state politics. A third understanding, also Radical, is society-centric and speaks about politics existing at a distance from the state and possibly beyond the boundaries of civil society. This civil society-state discussion frames the second section of the article, which looks specifically at Zimbabwe. It details civil society as contested terrain (from the late 1990s onwards) within the context of a scholarly debate about agrarian transformation and political change. This debate, which reproduces (in theoretical garb) the key political society (or party) fault-lines within Zimbabwean society, has taken place primarily within the restricted confines of state-centred discourses.
- Format
- 12 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Contemporary African Studies
- Relation
- Helliker, K., 2012. Civil society and state-centred struggles. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 30(1), pp.35-47.
- Relation
- Journal of Contemporary African Studies volume 30 number 1 35 47 January 2012 0258-9001
- Rights
- Helliker, Kirk David
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Taylor and Francis Online Open Journals statement (https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/openjournals)
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