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Worth the gamble? Access to information, risks and ethical dilemmas in undertaking research in authoritarian regimes: the case of Zimbabwe 值得赌一把吗?威权政权研究中的信息获取、风险和伦理困境:以津巴布韦为例
Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2074486
A. Rusero
Undertaking ethnographic or phenomenological inquiry under a hovering cloud of dictatorship can often be a mammoth, some might even say life-risking, venture. In such circumstances, researchers are confronted with ethical dilemmas: the need to strike a balance between accessing credible first-hand information and playing it safe. It is against this background that this paper traces the challenges confronting researchers planning to conduct fieldwork in authoritarian regimes. Conducting research under a political culture of fear, polarization and censorship has proven to be something of a heinous task for my own research in my home country of Zimbabwe. Drawing from this experience, the paper discusses the risks, ethical dilemmas and apprehensions that underscore the challenge of carrying out fieldwork in authoritarian regimes. Specifically, the paper discusses how researchers, whose research might be perceived by governments as a threat to national security, can deal with risks, threats, and dangers regarding access to the gathering and retrieval of data.
在独裁统治的阴云笼罩下进行民族志或现象学研究往往是一项巨大的冒险,有些人甚至会说这是一项冒着生命危险的冒险。在这种情况下,研究人员面临着道德困境:需要在获取可信的第一手信息和保证安全之间取得平衡。正是在这种背景下,本文追溯了计划在威权政权中进行实地考察的研究人员所面临的挑战。事实证明,在恐惧、两极化和审查的政治文化下进行研究,对我自己在祖国津巴布韦的研究来说,是一项令人发指的任务。根据这一经验,本文讨论了在专制政权中进行实地调查所面临的风险、伦理困境和担忧。具体地说,这篇论文讨论了那些研究可能被政府视为对国家安全的威胁的研究人员如何处理关于获取收集和检索数据的风险、威胁和危险。
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Truce and reconciliation in Zimbabwe: from Mugabe to Mnangagwa 津巴布韦的休战与和解:从穆加贝到姆南加古瓦
Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2067069
Gift Mwonzora, Kirk Helliker
Throughout history, truce-making has been an important mechanism to temporarily halt fighting between antagonistic forces. In some instances, national truces are used to usher in longer-term national reconciliation. In this regard, there is an important analytical distinction between a truce and a reconciliation. What is sometimes articulated publicly as a formal reconciliation is often merely a truce, at least from the perspective of the hegemonic party. Drawing on the theoretical work of Nir Eisikovits, we develop this argument in relation to what we identify as the three official episodes of state-centric national reconciliation in Zimbabwe, all taking place under Mugabe’s rule. In doing so, we demonstrate how ZANU-PF recalibrated the reconciliations as truces to pursue its strategic power interests. In this context, and more briefly, we analyse the post-coup Mnangagwa government’s discourse and acts of reconciliation (existing outside an official reconciliation pact) as another episode of truce-making, designed to benchmark what is unacceptable oppositional politics.
纵观历史,休战一直是暂时停止敌对力量之间战斗的重要机制。在某些情况下,国家停火被用来促成长期的民族和解。在这方面,休战和和解之间有一个重要的分析区别。有时公开表达的正式和解往往只是休战,至少从霸权政党的角度来看是这样。根据Nir Eisikovits的理论工作,我们将这一论点与我们所确定的津巴布韦以国家为中心的民族和解的三个官方事件联系起来,这些事件都发生在穆加贝统治下。在这样做的过程中,我们展示了非洲民族联盟-爱国阵线如何将和解重新校准为休战,以追求其战略权力利益。在这种背景下,更简单地说,我们将政变后姆南加古瓦政府的话语和和解行为(存在于官方和解协议之外)分析为另一个休战制定的插曲,旨在衡量什么是不可接受的反对派政治。
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The Tunisian university at the intersection of global-local conjunctures: knowledge, power and the struggle for liberation 这所突尼斯大学位于全球与地方的交汇处:知识、权力和争取解放的斗争
Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2097932
Corinna Mullin
This article adopts a longue durée approach to examining resistance around the Tunisian university, tracing current material and epistemological struggles back to the colonial era. To do so, it fuses theoretical insights from the growing bodies of literature concerned with how colonial-capitalist power is manifested and contested within and on the margins of institutions of higher education, including Marxist, social movement theory, and decolonial traditions. The article considers four important conjunctures in the development of the Tunisian academy as an institution where the connections between knowledge generation and (neo)colonial-capitalist power have been articulated and contested. The article will conclude by arguing that the sediments of resistance remaining from all four transformative moments have dialectically contributed to building alternative knowledge projects within and beyond the university. Whereas dominant modes of knowledge production enable and normalise the destructive and grossly unequal patterns of extraction and accumulation associated with (neo)colonial-capitalism, alternative knowledge projects instead seek to transform Tunisians’ relations with one another, with the state and with the land in ways that promote the forging of the collective and meaningful liberation.
本文采用了一种长期的研究方法来考察突尼斯大学周围的抵抗,将当前的材料和认识论斗争追溯到殖民时代。为了做到这一点,它融合了越来越多的文献中关于殖民资本主义权力如何在高等教育机构内部和边缘表现和竞争的理论见解,包括马克思主义,社会运动理论和非殖民化传统。本文考虑了突尼斯学院发展的四个重要时刻,作为一个机构,知识产生与(新)殖民资本主义权力之间的联系已经明确和有争议。文章的结论是,所有四个变革时刻遗留下来的阻力沉积物,辩证地促进了大学内外的另类知识项目的建立。虽然知识生产的主导模式使与(新)殖民资本主义相关的破坏性和严重不平等的提取和积累模式成为可能并使之正常化,但替代知识项目却试图以促进集体和有意义的解放的方式,改变突尼斯人与他人、与国家和与土地的关系。
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Cultural politics and cultural violence during Gukurahundi in Matabeleland 马塔贝莱兰Gukurahundi时期的文化政治和文化暴力
Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2074487
Nkululeko Sibanda
This paper examines and analyses the various instances where ‘performances’ of cultural violence by the state and Fifth Brigade were experienced during Gukurahundi in Matabeleland. This paper contends that cultural violence was used to stereotype Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) veterans, as well as Ndebele people. Cultural violence is used here to refer to the purposeful weakening and ultimate destruction of cultural values and practices of the Ndebele people. This paper argues that ZANU-PF created an anti-Ndebele thought collective through the use of emotive language, stylized news in media, and ‘expert opinions’ to block the creation of accurate contextual knowledge for the Shona nonlocals and ZANU-PF members. This paper further submits that this thought collective sits at the base of the disposition, segregation, dehumanization, near annihilation and framing of ZAPU, ex-ZIPRA veterans and the Ndebele people as ‘dissidents’ and ‘cockroaches’, infecting Ndebele language, identity and cultural practices. This paper, thus, argues that the deployment of cultural violence created a fertile ground for direct and structural violence that further undermined ZAPU, ZIPRA and Ndebele resistance against Gukurahundi. In conclusion, this paper proposes public multi-cultural remembrances and cultural cleansing ceremonies (nationally and communally) as possible solutions to diffusing the continuous perpetration of cultures of violence in Zimbabwe.
本文考察和分析了在马塔贝莱兰Gukurahundi期间,国家和第五旅所经历的文化暴力“表演”的各种实例。本文认为,文化暴力被用来对津巴布韦非洲人民联盟(ZAPU)和津巴布韦人民革命军(ZIPRA)的退伍军人以及恩德贝勒人进行刻板印象。这里的文化暴力是指有目的地削弱和最终破坏恩德贝勒人民的文化价值和习俗。本文认为,非洲民族联盟-爱国阵线通过使用情绪化的语言、媒体上程式化的新闻和“专家意见”创造了一个反恩德贝勒的思想集体,以阻止为修纳非当地人和非洲民族联盟-爱国阵线成员创造准确的背景知识。本文进一步指出,这一思想集体是将ZAPU、前zipra退伍军人和恩德贝勒人视为“持不同政见者”和“蟑螂”的处置、隔离、非人化、近乎灭绝和诬告的基础,感染了恩德贝勒人的语言、身份和文化习俗。因此,本文认为,文化暴力的部署为直接和结构性暴力创造了肥沃的土壤,进一步削弱了ZAPU, ZIPRA和恩德贝勒对Gukurahundi的抵抗。总之,本文提出了公共多元文化纪念和文化净化仪式(国家和社区)作为可能的解决方案,以扩散在津巴布韦不断犯下的暴力文化。
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Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de Violence in the context of end-less post-colonialism 在无尽头的后殖民主义背景下,扬博·乌洛古姆的《暴力的奉献》
Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2097933
Isaac Joslin
This paper outlines the problematic relationship between the enduring colonial legacy that persists, both in theories of the postcolonial and geo-political post-colonial state practices. Considering the ambivalent relationship between discourses of postmodern and postcolonial theorists, Yambo Ouologuem's seminal work, Le devoir de violence (1968), serves as a literal roadmap of the complicit power dynamics involved in postcolonial political and discursive practices. The implications of Ouloguem's tactical textual composition underscore a relationship of mutual culpability in a metaphorical chess game in which both sides ultimately compromise for the game to continue. Read in the context of contemporary post-colonial and post-modernist discourses on African literary productions, Ouologuem's Le devoir de violence embodies an aesthetic of ambiguity that not only reveals the extreme violence of colonial encounters, but also the subversive complicity of a sustained violence fundamental to discourses of a post-colonized condition vacillating between liberation and subservience.
本文概述了在后殖民理论和地缘政治后殖民国家实践中持续存在的持久殖民遗产之间的问题关系。考虑到后现代和后殖民理论家的话语之间的矛盾关系,扬博·奥洛古姆的开创性作品《暴力的信仰》(1968)作为一幅涉及后殖民政治和话语实践的共谋权力动态的字面路线图。Ouloguem的战术文本构成的含义强调了一种隐喻性的国际象棋游戏中的相互罪责关系,双方最终妥协以使游戏继续下去。在当代后殖民主义和后现代主义关于非洲文学作品的话语背景下阅读,Ouologuem的Le devoir de violence体现了一种模棱两可的美学,它不仅揭示了殖民遭遇的极端暴力,而且还揭示了一种持续暴力的颠覆性共谋,这种暴力是后殖民状态下在解放和屈从之间摇摆不定的话语的基础。
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The ECOWAS conflict prevention framework and the critical and emancipatory peacebuilding approach 西非经共体预防冲突框架和关键的解放性建设和平办法
Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2097931
M. A. Ateng, A. Musah
This paper discusses the ECOWAS Conflict Prevention Framework from the perspective of the critical and emancipatory peacebuilding approach. The paper argues that the ECOWAS conflict prevention framework is largely guided by the principles of the liberal peacebuilding model which ignores the ‘local’ in peacebuilding. The framework represents a complete departure of the sub-regional body, from an emphasis on conflict resolution to transformative conflict prevention with the overarching objective of ensuring human security instead of state security. When subjecting the framework, however, to the philosophies of the critical and emancipatory peacebuilding approach and the social justice frame, one notices that, in its current form, the framework is inadequate to ensure sustainable peace and security within the sub-region. Its over-reliance on the state as the unit of focus together with its adoption of liberal conceptualization of human security, focus on direct violence, top-down approach, low engagement of local communities to ensure local ownership, and the way these have been implemented make it an apparent elite-based policy. For the framework to have an impact in the sub-region, it must be restructured to make it an empowering policy that engages local actors, communities, resources, and knowledge in the transformative conflict prevention agenda of the sub-region. The framework also needs to be anchored on local ownership and agency and must be made to act as an emancipatory and transformative tool aimed at empowering the people of the sub-region as peacemakers, peacebuilders, and transformative leaders.
本文从批判性和解放性建设和平方法的角度讨论了西非经共体预防冲突框架。本文认为,西非经共体预防冲突框架在很大程度上是由自由主义建设和平模式的原则指导的,这种模式忽视了建设和平中的“地方”。该框架代表着该次区域机构的彻底转变,从强调解决冲突转向以确保人类安全而不是国家安全为总体目标的变革性冲突预防。然而,在将该框架置于批判性和解放性建设和平方法和社会正义框架的哲学之下时,人们注意到,就其目前形式而言,该框架不足以确保分区域内的可持续和平与安全。它过度依赖国家作为焦点单位,同时采用自由主义的人类安全概念,关注直接暴力,自上而下的方法,地方社区的低参与,以确保地方所有权,以及这些实施的方式,使其成为一种明显的精英政策。为了使该框架在次区域产生影响,必须对其进行重组,使其成为一项赋权政策,使当地行为者、社区、资源和知识参与次区域变革性冲突预防议程。该框架还需要以当地的自主权和能动性为基础,并必须成为一种解放和变革的工具,旨在增强分区域人民作为和平缔造者、和平建设者和变革领袖的能力。
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Chinese goods and mass consumption in Africa: cultural appropriation of Chinese motorcycles in Burkina Faso 中国商品与非洲大众消费:布基纳法索对中国摩托车的文化挪用
Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-04-04 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2054839
Guive Khan-Mohammad
This paper deals with the arrival of Chinese-made goods as one of the main vectors of African societies’ entrance into mass consumption logics. However, it proposes going beyond the dominant monocausal approach, which only relates the consumption of these goods to their low price. To do so, this paper emphasizes a careful observation of consumer practices to unveil the complex process of ‘domestication’ that African consumers carry out on these goods daily (Sahlins, M. D. 1993. “Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography in the Context of Modern World History.” The Journal of Modern History 65 (1): 1–25; Warnier, J.-P. 1994. Le paradoxe de la marchandise authentique: Imaginaire et consommation de masse. Paris: L’Harmattan). To this end, we focus our attention on the case of Chinese motorcycles in Burkina Faso. Historically the most imported Chinese good in Burkina Faso, motorcycles are at the centre of a multitude of practices and social representations. After placing the arrival of these bikes in the historicity of the cyclo-distinction, this paper presents the many ways in which Chinese motorcycles – though less expensive – are socially and symbolically valued by Burkinabe consumers. Initially considered symbols of a new ‘modernity’, the aesthetic and technical characteristics of Chinese motorcycles gradually became a standard shared by all imported models. The multiplication of importers and models accompanied a growing complexity of symbolic values and distinction logics, in which the growing role of the ‘new figures of success’ (Banégas, R., and J.-P. Warnier. 2001. “Nouvelles figures de la réussite et du pouvoir.” Politique Africaine 82 (2): 5–23) was expressed. In the context of mounting uncertainty surrounding the new distinctive codes and an acceleration of the symbolic obsolescence of motorcycles, ‘novelty’ became the new reference value and frequently replacing possessions a key element of social value, and therefore a central rule of distinction. Thus, a focus on the process of ‘cultural appropriation’ of Chinese goods allows us to distance ourselves from a financially captive interpretation of African consumption to unveil the social determinants of Africa’s entry into mass consumption logics.
本文探讨了中国制造商品作为非洲社会进入大众消费逻辑的主要载体之一的到来。然而,它建议超越占主导地位的单因果方法,这种方法只将这些商品的消费与它们的低价联系起来。为此,本文强调了对消费者行为的仔细观察,以揭示非洲消费者每天对这些商品进行的复杂“驯化”过程(Sahlins, m.d. 1993)。“告别Tristes比喻:现代世界史背景下的人种学”现代历史学报,65 (1):1 - 25;Warnier, j。1994. 货真价实的悖论:想象与大众的融合。巴黎:L 'Harmattan)。为此,我们关注中国摩托车在布基纳法索的事件。作为布基纳法索历史上进口最多的中国商品,摩托车是众多实践和社会代表的中心。在将这些摩托车的到来置于历史上的循环区别之后,本文介绍了中国摩托车的许多方面-尽管不那么昂贵-被布基纳法索消费者所重视的社会和象征意义。最初被认为是一种新的“现代性”的象征,中国摩托车的美学和技术特征逐渐成为所有进口车型共享的标准。进口商和模型的增加伴随着符号价值和区分逻辑的日益复杂,其中“新成功人物”的作用越来越大(bansamgas, R.和j . p .)。Warnier》2001。" Nouvelles figures de la rassussite et du pouvoir. "Politique Africaine 82(2): 5-23)表示。在新的独特规范和摩托车加速过时的不确定性的背景下,“新颖性”成为新的参考价值,并经常取代社会价值的关键要素,因此成为区分的中心规则。因此,对中国商品的“文化挪用”过程的关注使我们能够远离对非洲消费的财务俘虏解释,从而揭示非洲进入大众消费逻辑的社会决定因素。
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The moral economy of sex work in Mombasa, Kenya 肯尼亚蒙巴萨性工作的道德经济
Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2039732
Eglė Česnulytė
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Infrastructures of Renaissance: tangible discourses in the EPRDF’s Ethiopia 文艺复兴的基础设施:在EPRDF的埃塞俄比亚有形话语
Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2039731
Biruk Terrefe
In late 2014, disputes around land, displacement and compensation related to the roll-out of big infrastructure projects across Ethiopia mutated into much deeper conflicts about the authoritarian nature of the state, the political marginalization of particular ethnic groups and the legitimacy of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). As security forces continued to quell mounting protests, the federal government imposed a state of emergency. This article explores how the EPRDF navigated this period of political fragility and why infrastructures were used as strategic vehicles for the party’s discourse. Drawing on the Addis-Djibouti Railway as an analytical lens, this research explores how the party strategically deployed posters, images and speeches centred around infrastructure to directly respond to protestors' grievances. This choice to deliberately embed visuals and rhetoric descriptions of such megaprojects in its political messaging about Ethiopia’s aspired ‘unity in diversity’, ‘democracy’, and ‘good governance’ illustrates how infrastructures were effective carriers of the party’s narratives. Roads, railways, and dams rendered EPRDF’s abstract ideas of political reform and economic renaissance tangible. At this critical juncture, these tangible discourses not only expose how the party attempted to restructure state-society relations in Ethiopia, but also how centrally anchored infrastructure was in the EPRDF’s self-styled developmental state project.
2014年底,围绕土地、流离失所和补偿的争议演变为更深层次的冲突,涉及国家的威权性质、特定族裔群体的政治边缘化以及埃塞俄比亚人民革命民主阵线(EPRDF)的合法性。随着安全部队继续镇压愈演愈烈的抗议活动,联邦政府宣布进入紧急状态。本文探讨了EPRDF是如何在这个政治脆弱的时期度过的,以及为什么基础设施被用作党的话语的战略工具。本研究以亚吉铁路为分析视角,探讨党如何策略性地部署以基础设施为中心的海报、图像和演讲,以直接回应抗议者的不满。选择将这些大型项目的视觉和修辞描述刻意嵌入其政治信息中,以表达埃塞俄比亚渴望的“多元统一”、“民主”和“善治”,说明基础设施如何成为该党叙事的有效载体。公路、铁路和水坝使EPRDF关于政治改革和经济复兴的抽象想法变得切实可行。在这个关键时刻,这些具体的话语不仅揭示了该党如何试图重组埃塞俄比亚的国家-社会关系,而且还揭示了EPRDF自诩的发展国家项目中中央锚定的基础设施是如何存在的。
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Fatal misconceptions: colonial durabilities, violence and epistemicide in Africa’s Great Lakes Region 致命的误解:非洲大湖地区的殖民持久性、暴力和知识灭绝
Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21681392.2022.2059901
C. Mertens, Stéphanie Perazzone, David Mwambari
The contributions of this special issue explore the concept of colonial durabilities in a bid to unearth both the concrete and invisible sites through which coloniality continues to circulate and materialise in the African Great Lakes Region (GLR). Colonial durabilities, we argue, are non-linear dynamic processes that suffuse the realities and structures of international and national politics, as well as the conduct of daily life. These become particularly evident in the knowledge economy of the GLR, in endeavours as broad as state building and everyday practices, within international development and peacebuilding interventions, and in academic theorising, methodologies and writing formats. We introduce the papers in this special issue that urge us to address an important question: Can we truly decolonise if we do not fully understand the coloniality of the present and its effects? We argue a careful investigation of the structural conditions that enable coloniality to actively form and re-form is essential to accurately understand real-world ramifications of asymmetrical power relations, a crucial aspect of the process of decolonisation. Lastly, we reflect on avenues for re-thinking the effects of colonial durabilities and to work towards generating anti-/de-colonial knowledges to perhaps achieve ‘epistemic freedom’.
本期特刊探讨了殖民持久性的概念,旨在揭示殖民在非洲大湖地区(GLR)继续传播和实现的具体和无形的地点。我们认为,殖民的持久性是非线性的动态过程,充斥着国际和国家政治的现实和结构,以及日常生活的行为。在GLR的知识经济中,在国家建设和日常实践等广泛的努力中,在国际发展和建设和平干预中,以及在学术理论、方法和写作格式中,这些都变得尤为明显。我们在本期特刊中介绍敦促我们处理一个重要问题的论文:如果我们不充分了解当前的殖民主义及其影响,我们能真正实现非殖民化吗?我们认为,仔细研究使殖民能够积极形成和重新形成的结构条件,对于准确理解不对称权力关系的现实后果至关重要,这是非殖民化进程的一个关键方面。最后,我们反思了重新思考殖民持久性影响的途径,并努力产生反/去殖民知识,以实现“认识自由”。
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