{"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":"2026-09-08T16:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:33","slug":"blair-rutherford","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/people\/blair-rutherford\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair Rutherford"},"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             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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.&nbsp; Since 1992, he has principally applied this interest in regards to commercial farm workers in Zimbabwe.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; This research builds on&nbsp;his earlier &nbsp;research 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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.&nbsp; For more information, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/borderfarm.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/borderfarm.blogspot.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/rutherford-blair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13913,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Blair","cu_people_last_name":"Rutherford","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[255],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-143","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-cross-appointed-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor, Sociology & Anthropology","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"blair_rutherford@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2601","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18938,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/143\/revisions\/18938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}