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Author Nhemachena, Artwell.

Title Relationality and Resilience in a Not So Relational World? : Knowledge, Chivanhu and (de- )Coloniality in 21st Century Conflict-Torn Zimbabwe.

Publication Info. Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (366 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abstract; Introduction and Background. On Matters of Violence, Ontologies and Resilience; The research site: contextualising matters of violence and resilience; Buhera and some issues in the broader Shona context; Chivanhu and modes of resilience; Aims and objectives; Theoretical/conceptual framework; Methodology; Participant observation; Sampling and unstructured interviews; Other sources of data; Ethics; Chapter outlines; Chapter One -- Resilience or Sacrifice? Droughts and Knowledge Translation.
The worlds, entities and knowledge practices related to droughts and rainsConclusion; Chapter Two -- The Mhepo, Mweya and Ruzivo: Knowing, Sensing and Resilience; Brief notes on violence and matters of knowledge; Prophesy, dreaming and divination; Knowledge and witchcraft-related violence; Ruzivo and resilience; Chapter Three -- Ethics Beyond Bodies? Ukama, Violence and Resilience; Brief notes on politics of violence and the violence of politics; Ukama, mhepo and mweya; Ukama and the coloniality of violence; A return to some key issues.
Chapter Four -- On Economies of Kutenda: Agency, Action and Resilience Against Economic AdversitiesA brief look at economic challenges; Agency, action and openness? resilience in everyday life economies; Kutenda; Chapter Five -- Sensing Presences? Health, Illness and Resilience; Some brief notes on health and resilience; The manifestations, comings and goings of everyday life; A return to a few key issues about presences and absences; Conclusion; Glossary of Terms; Bibliography; Back cover.
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Subject Resilience (Personality trait) -- Zimbabwe -- Manicaland Province.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Zimbabwe -- Manicaland Province.
Shona (African people) -- Economic conditions.
Shona (African people)
Economic conditions.
Shona (African people) -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Manicaland Province (Zimbabwe) -- Economic conditions.
Manicaland Province (Zimbabwe) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Nhemachena, Artwell. Relationality and Resilience in a Not So Relational World? : Knowledge, Chivanhu and (de- )Coloniality in 21st Century Conflict-Torn Zimbabwe. Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, ©2017 9789956764297
ISBN 9789956764303 (electronic book)
9956764302 (electronic book)