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| Title: | 'Discipline without Oppression': Sequence, Timing and Marginality in Southern Rhodesia's Post-War Development Regime |
| Author: | Worby, Eric |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 101-125 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Great Britain |
| Subjects: | development colonialism Politics and Government Development and Technology |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/183512 |
| Abstract: | The regime of 'development' that emerged in postwar Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) was organized around a naturalized racial axis that differentiated between African and European populations, both culturally and politically. A series of legislative acts and administrative innovations were devoted to the reform of four principal domains of African rural life: the disciplining of hygienic practice, the stabilization of the monogamous family, the regularization of land tenure and the rationalization of agrarian techniques. The unity of these objectives in policy discourse quickly dissolved, however, when local administrators and agricultural extension workers were faced with the task of implementing the means to attain them. An analysis of two adjacent African reserves in the northwest - Sanyati and Gokwe - illustrates the importance of the timing and sequence according to which regions were drawn into the prescriptive apparatus of the development regime. Sanyati began to receive immigrants forcibly resettled from white farms in the 1950s, at a time when the coercive model of development was reaching its apogee. A decade later, Gokwe received waves of the same immigrants under conditions of greater administrative freedom; under these conditions, government officers were able to introduce a flexible programme of cotton production with results that profoundly transformed much of the area. Notes, ref., sum. |
