Julia Gallagher
Zimbabwe’s consolidation as a gatekeeper state
Gallagher, Julia
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Abstract
Cooper’s gatekeeper state theory provides a powerful way to read recent Zimbabwean politics, but the country also challenges his assumptions about both the elite-led nature of gatekeeping, and deterministic assumptions about its direct emergence from colonialism. Drawing on ordinary Zimbabweans’ perspectives, I make two arguments. First, I show how consolidation of Zimbabwe’s ‘gate’ has been shaped by events and contingent reactions to them since 1980, complicating Cooper’s focus on the immanence of colonial structures. Second, I show how consolidation has been achieved through popular ideas of and engagement with the outside world. This has been done in reaction to the increasing solidity and narrowness of the gate – in the ways Zimbabweans themselves work around it – but also in a shift in the ways Zimbabwean people think about the legitimacy of gatekeeping.
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Gallagher, J. (2018). Zimbabwe’s consolidation as a gatekeeper state. Third world thematics, 3(3), 439-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2018.1446762
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 26, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 8, 2018 |
Publication Date | Mar 8, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Aug 14, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 16, 2018 |
Print ISSN | 2380-2014 |
Electronic ISSN | 2379-9978 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 3 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 439-454 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2018.1446762 |
Keywords | Zimbabwe, gatekeeper state, Frederick Cooper, legitimacy, citizens |
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© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal on 08 Mar 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/23802014.2018.1446762
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