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Fast track resettlement programme in Zimbabwe: Disparity between policy design and implementation / Masiiwa, Medicine

Apr 2005

Masiiwa, Medicine	Journal Article
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Apr 2005.

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Zimbabwe ; Land Reform ; War Veterans ; Mugabe

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ID: 157768

Party-State in the Land Occupations of Zimbabwe: the case of shamva district / Bhatasara, Sandra ; Helliker, Kirk

Sandra Bhatasara, Kirk Helliker	Journal Article
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There has been significant debate about the land occupations which occurred from the year 2000 in Zimbabwe, with a key controversy concerning the role of the state and ruling party (or party-state) in the occupations. This controversy, deriving from two grand narratives about the occupations, remains unresolved. A burgeoning literature exists on the Zimbabwean state’s fast-track land reform programme, which arose in the context of the occupations, but this literature is concerned mainly with post-occupation developments on fast-track farms. This article seeks to contribute to resolving the controversy surrounding the party-state and the land occupations by examining the occupations in the Shamva District of Mashonaland Central Province. The fieldwork for our Shamva study focused exclusively on the land occupations (and not on the fast-track farms) and was undertaken in May 2015. We conclude from our Shamva study that involvement by the party-state did not take on an institutionalised form but was of a personalised character entailing interventions by specific party and state actors.

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Zimbabwe ; War Veterans ; Party-State ; Land Occupations ; Shamva

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ID: 188738

Remembering a forgotten war: the Vietnamese state, war veterans and the commemoration of the Sino-Vietnamese War (1979–89) / Grossheim, Martin

Grossheim, Martin	Journal Article
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This article argues that in the last few years the Vietnamese state and the Vietnamese Communist Party have upgraded the commemoration of a Sino-Vietnamese War (1979–89) that had fallen into oblivion after the normalisation of Sino-Vietnamese relations in 1991. The first part of the article analyses the way in which Vietnam officially commemorated the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the war against China in 2019. Vietnamese authorities such as the Department of Propaganda and Edcuation stepped up the commemoration of the war, but in comparison with that of the war against the Pol Pot regime it was much more subdued and low-key. The second part of the article shows that the veterans of the Vị Xuyên battle in Hà Giang province where fierce battles had taken place between 1984 and 1989 have actively shaped the commemoration of the war by organising commemorative activities on the old battlefield and reaching out to state media and social media. This highlights the significance of ‘agents of remembrance’ in Vietnam who, along with the official Vietnamese ‘memory machine’, also make important contributions to the commemoration of the past.

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War Veterans ; Vietnamese State ; Commemoration of the Sino-Vietnamese War (1979–89)

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