{"id":143,"date":"2009-08-13T15:01:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T19:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2023-07-12T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T13:02:18","slug":"blair-rutherford","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/people\/blair-rutherford\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair Rutherford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blair Rutherford <\/strong>is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research interests gravitate around the politics and possibilities of international development, particularly concerning \u201ccivil society\u201d in sub-Saharan Africa.\u00a0 Since 1992, he has principally applied this interest in regards to commercial farm workers in Zimbabwe.\u00a0 He has been examining the economic strategies, institutional arrangements, and the constitutive cultural politics shaping current and former farm worker strategies to access resources, particularly land, during the on-going land redistribution exercise in Zimbabwe, including those moving to work on South African farms.\u00a0 This research builds on\u00a0his earlier \u00a0research exploring the varied social, economic and political impacts of programs for farm workers in Zimbabwe initiated by civil society organizations such as non-governmental organizations and trade unions.<\/p>\n<p>Some of his research has supported an innovative multi-media project on a South African farm on the border with Zimbabwe, involving South African-American film-maker Thenjiwe Nkosi and the Dulibazimu Theatre Group, amongst others.\u00a0 For more information, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/borderfarm.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/borderfarm.blogspot.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/rutherford-blair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[255],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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