The Colonial State and the Penetration of Purposive Rationality

Michael Drinkwater

Chapter 2 in The State and Agrarian Change in Zimbabwe’s Communal Areas, 1991, pp 28-77 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Zimbabwe’s ninety-year colonial experience is one of a journey down the path of linguistically — and hence socially — transmitted prejudices of which Hans-Georg Gadamer writes. But this path, I shall argue, must be understood as the result not primarily of racial prejudices per se, but rather of the prejudiced belief of the new settlers in the superiority of their western material and technical culture. This chapter explains the importance of this distinction.

Keywords: Annual Report; Land Husbandry; Communal Area; Colonial State; Stock Holding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11780-2_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781349117802

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11780-2_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().