Replacing Mugabe with Mnangawa is a change without a change — co-tired/worn-out comrades. How will retreading tired old tyres help Zimbabwe? Internecine?
> On Nov 23, 2017, at 4:21 AM, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso <jumoyin@gmail.com> wrote:
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> If you read me well sir, I wasn't advancing "democratic" theory at all. In fact I dismissed "democracy" (in query quotes) as one of the fashionable concepts that we scholars are excessively beholden to. I also never use the term "masses" because it masks several layers of nuances in understanding states and citizens' relations. However, since you are a Negri-an, I can conclude that your answer to my query is that citizens by themselves do not matter in shaping the destiny of nations; it is elites that must and that can do so. Must we assess progress only by who occupies power and whether guards change or not? I am equally pessimistic about Zimbabwe and cannot at all understand the jubilation both there and abroad, but there is something to be said for the fact that long standing popular dissent created a crisis of legitimacy for Mugabe, the intervening military and even the incoming Mnangagwa, and will shape the course of that country in the coming days. So, are citizens still irrelevant, though they haven't gotten exactly what they want or deserve? To coral another recent development into this conversation, would we say that there is no progress signified by the recent public revelations by women alleging sexual predation by powerful men in US society? Yes there may be no prosecutions or convictions or punishment more broadly, but must we deny the shifts that the breaking of silence signify, awaiting more significant shifts, even when it takes another one hundred years? As I ask these questions, I am not looking for definitive answer per se; in the response to Prof Harrow above, I and others already noted that reality is more complex and full of contradictions than we Sometimes allow.
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