James Muzondidya (Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa)

Submitted:  Thurs, 31 May 2007


Dr. James Muzondidya
Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
134 Pretorius Street
Pretoria
0002
South Africa

e-mail: jmuzondidya@yahoo.com


Research interests: Zimbabwean social history; redefining "Arabness" and 
"Colouredness": towards a historical explanation of the identity-making 
processes in North Africa and Southern Africa; minority rights and 
cultures ; identity politics ; the construction of racial and ethnic 
identities in Africa.

Education:

Ph.D. in Historical Studies, 2001, University of Cape Town (UCT), South 
Africa. Thesis: "Sitting on the fence or walking a tightrope? A political 
history of the Coloured community in Zimbabwe, 1945-1980."
     
M.A. in African History, 1996, University of Zimbabwe (UZ), Zimbabwe. 
Thesis: "The State, Local government, Local capital and the residential
segregation of minorities: The case of Coloureds and Indians in Salisbury, 
1890-1945."

Graduate Certificate in Education, 1993, University of Zimbabwe.
B.A. (Honours), 1990, University of Zimbabwe.


Teaching:

1999-2002  Full-time Lecturer, History Department, University of Zimbabwe.
           Courses taught at post-graduate level: Race, Class and 
           Ethnicity in Africa.  Courses taught at undergraduate level: 
           Southern Africa, from colonial rule to independence; Southern 
           Africa, from the 15th C to the Late 19th C.; Aspects of 
           African History ; Introduction to the Study of History 
      
Selected publications:

2007   "Jambanja: Ideological Ambiguities in the Politics of Land and 
Resource Ownership in Zimbabwe," Journal of southern African studies. vol 
33, issue 2 (June 2007): 325-41. 

2004   Walking a tightrope: towards a social history of the coloured 
people of Zimbabwe.  Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

2001   "Review of Brian Raftopoulos and Lloyd Sachikonye, eds, Striking 
Back: The Labour movement and the post-colonial State in Zimbabwe, 1980-2000", 
(Harare, Weaver, 2001, H-SAfrica, November 2001) 


Conferences and unpublished papers:

2001  "Radical nationalism, racial polarization, the Liberation War and 
the marginalisation of minorities in Zimbabwe: An analysis of Coloured 
experiences of the war and its legacies", (unpublished seminar paper 
presented at the Liberation and Democracy in Southern Africa Workshop, 
Cape Town, South Africa, 13-14 December 2001.)

      "Dreams and Expectations shattered? World War 2, Post-war settlement 
and the  experiences of the Colored community in Southern Rhodesia" 
(unpub. Seminar paper presented at the History Department Seminar Series, 
University of Zimbabwe, 8 November 2001)

      "What are we fighting for?': War, politics and ideology within the 
Coloured community in the 1970s", (unpub. Seminar paper presented at the 
Valedictory Workshop in Honour of Professor T. O. Ranger: History 
Matters- New Ideas in Zimbabwean Historiography, Harare, 28-29 June 2001)

2000  "The most obscene political fraud of the twentieth century'? The 
Lancaster House Constitution, African majority rule and the Coloured 
question in Zimbabwe", (unpub. Seminar paper presented at the Historical 
Dimensions of Human Rights and Democracy Seminar Series, History 
Department, University of Zimbabwe, 5 October 2000.

1999  "The evolution of Colored identity in Zimbabwe, 1890-1945", (unpub. 
Seminar paper presented at the Historical Dimensions of Human Rights and 
Democracy Seminar Series, History Department, University of Zimbabwe, 16 
June 1999.)

1997  "Reforms, Politics and Federation and the Colored position in 
Southern Rhodesia, 1953-1963", (unpub. Seminar paper presented at the 
Graduate Seminar Series, Department of Historical Studies, University of 
Cape Town, 1997.

1993  "The history, organization and activities of the Government Workers' 
Association (GWA), 1972-1992." (unpub. Research paper presented at the 20th 
Anniversary of the Government Workers' Association, 1993.)