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Desired Publics, Domestic Government, and Entangled Fears: On the Anthropology of Civil Society, Farm Workers, and White Farmers in Zimbabwe
Article first published online: 7 JAN 2008
DOI: 10.1525/can.2004.19.1.122
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Rutherford, B. (2004), Desired Publics, Domestic Government, and Entangled Fears: On the Anthropology of Civil Society, Farm Workers, and White Farmers in Zimbabwe. Cultural Anthropology, 19: 122–153. doi: 10.1525/can.2004.19.1.122
Publication History
- Issue published online: 7 JAN 2008
- Article first published online: 7 JAN 2008
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Keywords:
- civil society;
- Zimbabwe;
- international development;
- farm workers;
- NGOs
ABSTRACT Development interventions made by nongovernmental organizations into the lives of commercial farm workers in Zimbabwe in the late 1990s have become entangled in the ongoing political and economic crisis in that country. Intersections of power, desire, and fear involved in the promotion of civil society open up questions addressing the racialized and gendered politics of the place of farm workers within the nation, the practice of “civil society” in Africa, and the positioning of an anthropologist within these fields of power.