Partisan citizenship and its discontents: precarious possession and political agency on Harare City's expanding margins
Partisan citizenship and its discontents: precarious possession and political agency on Harare City's expanding margins
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党派公民身份及其不满：哈拉雷市不断扩大的利润中不稳定的占有和政治机构
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10.1080/13621025.2019.1691151
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2019
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1.8
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McGregor J
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McGregor J
在津巴布韦不断扩大的首都哈拉雷的边缘，执政的津巴布韦非洲民族联盟-爱国阵线(ZANU-PF)推动了一种观点，即获得城市土地、住房和安全保障，并以展示党的忠诚为条件。本文讨论了关于这种形式的党派公民身份的争论，提出了以下更广泛的论点。首先，它认为，党派公民身份的概念引起了人们对政党政治派别作为非自由民主国家差别权利来源的作用的关注，反驳了强调种族区域、种族主义或宗教社区身份作为非洲毕业公民身份的主要来源的倾向。其次，它将委托人的主体性塑造为一个与背景相关、有争议的思想和行动领域，而不是将其描述为文化坚持或仅将其简化为物质讨价还价。第三，文章利用津巴布韦的案例告诫人们，在关于南部城市化的辩论中，有一种趋势是将土地占领和非正式建筑视为政治阻力和获得正式公民身份的途径。通过这些方式，这篇文章将党派公民身份作为一种手段，推动了关于非洲非自由民主国家公民身份重新配置的辩论，以及更广泛地说，在城市化的全球南方，不稳定的边缘国家的政治。
On the margins of Zimbabwe’s expanding capital Harare, the ruling ZANU–PF party promotes a view of access to urban land, housing and security as ‘gift’, conditional on demonstrations of party loyalty. This article discusses contestation over this form of partisan citizenship, making the following broader arguments. First, it argues that the notion of partisan citizenship draws attention to the role of party political affiliation as a source of differential entitlements in illiberal democracies, countering a tendency to emphasise ethno-regional, racialized or religious communal identities as the primary sources of graduated citizenship in Africa. Second, it casts clientelist subjection as a contextual and contentious domain of ideas and action, rather than presenting it as cultural persistence or reducing it solely to material bargaining. Third, the article uses the Zimbabwean case to caution against a tendency within debates over southern urbanism to celebrate land occupations and informal construction as political resistance and route to full citizenship. In these ways, the article offers partisan citizenship as a means of taking forward debates over re-configurations of citizenship in Africa’s illiberal democracies and the politics of precarious peripheries in the urbanising global South more broadly.