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oapen-20.500.12657-336582021-11-09T09:02:57Z Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles: The decolonisation of white identity in Zimbabwe Fisher, J.L. politics and government decolonization whites zimbabwe race relations Rhodesia Robert Mugabe White people bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government What did the future hold for Rhodesia’s white population at the end of a bloody armed conflict fought against settler colonialism? Would there be a place for them in newly independent Zimbabwe? Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles sets out the terms offered by Robert Mugabe in 1980 to whites who opted to stay in the country they thought of as their home. The book traces over the next two decades their changing relationship with the country when the post-colonial government revised its symbolic and geographical landscape and reworked codes of membership. Particular attention is paid to colonial memories and white interpellation in the official account of the nation’s rebirth and indigene discourses, in view of which their attachment to the place shifted and weakened. As the book describes the whites’ trajectory from privileged citizens to persons of disputed membership and contested belonging, it provides valuable background information with regard to the land and governance crises that engulfed Zimbabwe at the start of the twenty-first century. 2013-11-13 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:53:05Z 2020-04-01T14:53:05Z 2010 book 459443 OCN: 513442095 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33658 eng application/pdf n/a 459443.pdf http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/pioneers_citation ANU Press 10.26530/OAPEN_459443 10.26530/OAPEN_459443 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 276 Canberra open access
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What did the future hold for Rhodesia’s white population at the end of a bloody armed conflict fought against settler colonialism? Would there be a place for them in newly independent Zimbabwe? Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles sets out the terms offered by Robert Mugabe in 1980 to whites who opted to stay in the country they thought of as their home. The book traces over the next two decades their changing relationship with the country when the post-colonial government revised its symbolic and geographical landscape and reworked codes of membership. Particular attention is paid to colonial memories and white interpellation in the official account of the nation’s rebirth and indigene discourses, in view of which their attachment to the place shifted and weakened. As the book describes the whites’ trajectory from privileged citizens to persons of disputed membership and contested belonging, it provides valuable background information with regard to the land and governance crises that engulfed Zimbabwe at the start of the twenty-first century.
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