- Title
- Imagining Civil Society in Zimbabwe and ‘Most of the World’:
- Creator
- Helliker, Kirk D
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144802
- Identifier
- vital:38380
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781461482628
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8262-8_11
- Description
- This chapter re-visits the notion of civil society in what Partha Chatterjee (The Politics of the Governed, 2004) calls ‘most of the world’ (beyond the capitalist metropoles) and, in doing so, uses Zimbabwe (and Africa more broadly) as an entry point into the literature on civil society. This chapter consists of four main sections. First, I discuss literature on civil society in Africa which, in the main, dichotomises civil society and the state empirically without any sustained theoretical reflections. Second, I provide an overview of Zimbabwean society and politics over the past decade and the ensuing debate, which in many ways produces a Manichean dualism whereby civil society is equated with progression and the state with regression. Third, I locate this conceptualisation of civil society within the broader international literature on civil society. These three sections, as a whole, highlight slippages in defining and understanding civil society: between civil society as a set of empirically identifiable organisational formations and civil society as a social space marked by civil liberties and voluntary arrangements in bourgeois society. Finally, I reimagine civil society in relation to ‘most of the world’.
- Format
- 17 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Helliker, K., 2014. Imagining Civil Society in Zimbabwe and ‘Most of the World’. In The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa (pp. 157-173). Springer, New York, NY.
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