{"id":10568,"date":"2017-08-31T10:42:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T14:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=10568"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:23","slug":"book-launch-discussion-farm-labour-struggles-zimbabwe-ground-politic","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/event\/book-launch-discussion-farm-labour-struggles-zimbabwe-ground-politic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book Launch and Discussion &#8211; Farm Labour Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politic"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                                                        <\/div>\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Blair Rutherford<\/strong> (Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University), will be in discussion with <strong>Andriata Chironda<\/strong> (History, Carleton) &amp; <strong>Lameck Zingano<\/strong> (Anthropology, Carleton) for a launch of his new book<strong> Farm Labour Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics<\/strong>. In the early twentieth-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations in an increasingly violent struggle between national electoral politics, land reform, and contestations over democracy. Were the black occupiers being freed from racist bondage as cheap laborers by the state-supported massive land redistribution, or were they victims of state violence who had been denied access to their homes, social services, and jobs? Rutherford examines the unequal social and power relations shaping the lives, livelihoods, and struggles of some farm workers during this momentous period in Zimbabwean history<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/Rutherford-poster.pdf\">More information here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[190],"class_list":["post-10568","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2017-09-15T14:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2017-09-15T17:30:00","cu_event_add_to_calendar":"show","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_building":"ML","cu_event_meeting_room":"Room 482 (in the Discovery Center)","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Blair Rutherford","cu_event_email":"blair.rutherford@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/10568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/10568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10608,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/10568\/revisions\/10608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=10568"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=10568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}