Contesting Hegemony: Civil Society and the struggle for Social Change in Zimbabwe, 2000-2008

摘要: This thesis employs Gramsci’s language of hegemony in order, firstly, to explore the role civil society legitimating and resisting state hegemony, secondly, examine sociological basis counter-hegemonic politics post-2000 Zimbabwe. The arose out a critique reductionist approaches theorising study changing state-society relations Zimbabwe that identifies exclusively with opposition excludes organisations aligned ruling party, therefore resulting functionalist discussions view as necessarily anti-state. demonstrates however dense hegemonic also exists it is organically ZANU-PF its advocacy for social change based on radical transformed terrain forces production, vis-a-vis land redistribution, albeit implementing this vision through coercive violence, persuasive but exclusionary discourses nationalism, Afro-radicalism nativism. Confronting it, an equally militant MDC, deploys constitutionalism human rights resist unravel violent nature ZANU-PF’s nationalist project, ways devoid serious structural inequalities post-independent