Commercialising the struggle: the organisational and ideological effects of democracy assistance on opposition activism in Zimbabwe

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Review of African Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-02-07 DOI:10.1080/03056244.2022.2026314

P. Mataruse, S. Matthews

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Abstract

ABSTRACT One of the ways in which opposition activists in Zimbabwe receive funding is through democracy assistance. Focusing on the late 1990s to 2016, this article explores the effect the receipt of such aid had on the ways in which opposition activists organise and on their ideological orientation. The authors show that the availability of such funds contributed to the commercialisation of the struggle whereby opposition activists began to view activism as a way to earn a living. Furthermore, this funding led to a decline in trust, passion and voluntarism among opposition activists. And, finally, dependence on foreign funding resulted in ideological shifts in Zimbabwean opposition parties and organisations whereby radical, left-leaning positions were abandoned in order to secure funding. The authors suggest that local strategies for funding such struggles for democracy must be given greater consideration to promote transformational possibilities and new participatory forms of democracy.

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将斗争商业化:津巴布韦民主援助对反对派激进主义的组织和意识形态影响

津巴布韦反对派活动人士获得资助的方式之一是通过民主援助。本文聚焦于20世纪90年代末至2016年，探讨了获得此类援助对反对派活动人士的组织方式和意识形态取向的影响。作者表明，这些资金的可用性有助于斗争的商业化，反对派活动人士开始将激进主义视为一种谋生方式。此外，这笔资金导致反对派活动人士的信任、热情和志愿主义下降。最后，对外国资金的依赖导致津巴布韦反对党和组织的意识形态转变，为了获得资金，他们放弃了激进的左倾立场。作者建议，必须更多地考虑为这种民主斗争提供资金的地方战略，以促进变革的可能性和新的参与式民主形式。

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Review of African Political Economy Multiple-

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3.00

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期刊介绍： The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends and issues in Africa. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression, whether driven by global forces or local ones (such as class, race, community and gender), and to materialist interpretations of change in Africa. It has sustained a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa.