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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp013r074x76c| Title: | Making Ends Meet at the Margins?: Grappling with Economic Crisis and Belonging in Beitbridge Town , Zimbabwe |
| Contributors: | Mate, Rekopantswe |
| Keywords: | Social conflict Zimbabwe Beitbridge Economic conditions Marginality, Social Economic policy |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| Publisher: | CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) |
| Place of Publication: | Dakar, Senegal |
| Series/Report no.: | CODESRIA Monograph Series |
| Description: | Officially, reference to regions of origin and ethnicity as criteria for accessing resources is seen as divisive and a threat to the social entity called Zimbabwe. It is a reminder of the violence of the post independence era which some would rather forget and others wish to remember as a moral debt which is paid only through revisiting history, apologies to wronged parties and other means of redress (see Werbner 1995). Within this context this paper looks at the emergence of notions of locals and outsiders; deserving and undeserving, entitled and non entitled people in the impoverished town of Beitbridge whose most salient resource is the border with South Africa which is perceived to be a harbinger of wealth through work, theft or the use of zombies and goblins believed to increase one’s wealth. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp013r074x76c |
| ISSN: | 2869781520 |
| Related resource: | http://www.codesria.org |
| Appears in Collections: | Serials and series reports (Publicly Accessible) - CODESRIA |
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