- Title
- Negotiating marginalisation: A socio-economic history of the Kalanga of Mangwe, Zimbabwe, 1940-2015
- Creator
- Nyathi, Innocent
- ThesisAdvisor
- Msindo, Enocent
- Subject
- Marginalisation
- Subject
- Kalanga (African people) Race identity Zimbabwe
- Subject
- Ethnicity Zimbabwe
- Subject
- Zimbabwe Economic conditions
- Subject
- Zimbabwe Social conditions
- Subject
- Kalanga language (Botswana and Zimbabwe)
- Date
- 2022-10-14
- Type
- Academic theses
- Type
- Doctoral theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/408705
- Identifier
- vital:70518
- Identifier
- DOI 10.21504/10962/408705
- Description
- The thesis explores the relationship between ethnicity, marginalisation, and survival mechanisms amongst the Kalanga people of Mangwe (southwestern Zimbabwe) from the 1940s up until the turn of the 21st century. The study showed how the Kalanga of Mangwe have used ethnicity as a concept to not only claim access to resources but also develop alternative survival strategies that help them seek to navigate their experiences of marginalisation by both the state and the hegemonic position of the Ndebele who dominate the region politically and linguistically. Using evidence from activities such as cross border migration and the mopane economy, I showed how the Kalanga express their displeasure at being dominated through engagement, as was shown in their attempt to fight for their language, for example in the 1940s through regionalised Kalanga organisations as the Kalanga Language and Cultural Development Society (KLCDS), to disengagement such as migration and illegal informal cross border trade. Using ‘conviviality’ and ‘the everyday’, as well as borrowing from the Race Relations Theory (RRT) of Robert Ezra Park as theoretical underpinnings, I demonstrated how amongst the Kalanga of Mangwe ethnic identity can lead to competition for resources, which in turn leads to marginalisation and discrimination which influences their social, political and economic choices that may in turn reinforce ethnic identity in a cycle like scenario. Everyday economic and social activities amongst the Kalanga of Mangwe that appear mundane and ordinary to an uninterested observer, help shape the everyday discourse of the Kalanga as they navigate marginalisation.
- Description
- Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Humanities, History, 2022
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (290 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, History
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nyathi, Innocent
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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