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Disrupting Zimbabwe’s Silenced Pasts through Art:A Conversation with Owen Maseko
No full textThis chapter weaves together the core elements of several conversations during 2022 in Zimbabwe and Denmark respectively, between multi-talented Zimbabwean artist and creative activist, Owen Maseko, and Denmark-based Zimbabwean scholar, Amanda Hammar. Maseko is especially well known in relation to his one-man exhibition of paintings and installations at the National Gallery in Bulawayo addressing the state-led Gukurahundi massacres in the 1980s, which was forcibly closed in 2010 by the then still Mugabe-led regime. Yet Maseko is marked by a much broader set of relationships to both his own past and to the wider social and political histories, presents and futures of Matabeleland, which continue to shape – indeed to ‘haunt’ – his interweaving personal, artistic and political journeys. In the context of Zimbabwe’s current political environment in which “anything you do can easily be a crime”, he is acutely aware of what it means to speak one’s own truths, let alone to disrupt the state-enforced silences surrounding the violent truths of Gukurahundi. Despite this, he is naturally drawn to being part of a wider, collective process of making visible, naming and memorialising both historical and present injustices through his art and other creative practices. He recognises being simultaneously a unique individual artist and deeply bound to the communities of which he is a part. In this, it is clear to him that his story is not “my story alone”. Keywords: Zimbabwe, Gukurahundi, political art, witness, memory, disrupted silence, Owen Maseko<br/
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Displacement Economies in Africa : Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity
No full textLarge-scale displacement - whether caused by war, state-related political or development projects, different forms of political violence, structural crisis, or even natural disasters - evokes many stereotyped assumptions about those forcibly displaced or emplaced. At the same time there is a problematic lack of attention paid to the diversity of actors, strategies and practices that reshape the world in the face (and chronic aftermath) of dramatic moments of violent dislocation. In this highly original volume, based on empirical case studies from across sub-Saharan Africa, the authors reveal the paradoxical effects, both intended and unexpected, that displacement produces, and that manifest themselves in displacement economies.CONTENTS: 1. Displacement economies: paradoxes of crisis and creativity in Africa / Amanda Hammar -- PART I. Economies of rupture and repositioning -- 2. Securing livelihoods: economic practice in the Darfur “Chad borderlands” / Andrea Behrends -- 3. Contested spaces, new opportunities: displacement, return and the rural economy in Casamance, Senegal / Martin Evans -- 4. The paradoxes of class: crisis, displacement and repositioning in post2000 Zimbabwe / Amanda Hammar -- PART II. Reshaping economic sectors, markets and investment -- 5. Rapid adaptations to change and displacements in the Lundas (Angola) / Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues -- 6. Somali displacements and shifting markets: camel milk in Nairobi’s Eastleigh Estate / Hannah Elliott -- 7. Diaspora returnees in Somaliland’s displacement economy / Peter Hansen -- 8. Financial flows and secrecy jurisdictions in times of crisis: relocating assets in Zimbabwe’s displacement economy / Sarah Bracking -- PART III. Confinement and economies of loss and hope -- 9. The IDP economy in northern Uganda: a prisoners’ economy? / Morten Bøås and Ingunn Bjørkhaug -- 10. ‘No move to make’: the Zimbabwe crisis, displacementinplace and the erosion of ‘proper places’ / Jeremy Jones -- 11. Captured lives: the precarious space of youth displacement in eastern DRC / Timothy Raeymaekers</p
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