A crowd-sourced list of PhD theses on Zimbabwe politics (broadly conceived). To submit further entries or correct/add info, please email sara.dorman@ed.ac.uk
Aeby, M. (2017) Zimbabwe’s gruelling transition : interim power-sharing and conflict management in Southern Africa. (Basel)
Alexander, J. (1994) The state, agrarian policy and rural politics in Zimbabwe : case studies of Insiza and Chimanimani districts, 1940-1990 (Oxford).
Banda, F. (1992) Women and law in Zimbabwe : access to justice on divorce (Oxford)
Bishi, G. (2019), Kith and Kin? White Rhodesia’s Settlers and Britain, 1939 to 1980 (University of the Free State).
Bright, L. T. (2016) This land: politics, authority and morality after land reform in Zimbabwe. (Edinburgh) https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/23450
Brownell, J. (2008) Rhodesia’s War of Numbers: Racial Populations, Political Power, and the Collapse of the Settler State, 1960-1979. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00033848
Burke, Timothy James. (1993) Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption and Cleanliness in Colonial Zimbabwe. (Johns Hopkins).
Cameron, H. (2018) Solving the ‘State’s Dilemma’: the dynamics of exit, voice and loyalty in Zimbabwe (KCL)(2000-2008) https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/studentTheses/solving-the-states-dilemma
Cavendish, M. W. P. (1997) The economics of natural resource utilisation by communal area farmers of Zimbabwe Oxford.
Chadambuka, P. (2021) Former farm workers of foreign descent in communal areas in post-fast track Zimbabwe : the case of Shamva District (Rhodes) http://vital.seals.ac.za:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:42938
Chadya, J. M. (2005) The Untold Story: War, Flight and the Internal Displacement of Rural Women to Harare During the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle, 1974-1980. Minnesota.
Chamunogwa, A. (2018) Power at the margins of post-colonial states in Africa: remaking authority on fast track resettlement farms in Zimbabwe (Oxford) https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c0614fee-df8d-4847-9206-32048de4de29
Charumbira, R. (2006) Forgetting Lives, Remembering Symbols: Women in the History of Zimbabwe. (Yale).
Chifamba, R. (2003) Analysis of mining investments in Zimbabwe (Göteborg)
Chitiga, M. M. (2001) The Experiences of Women Leaders in the Higher Education Sector of Zimbabwe. (South Carolina).
Chigudu, S. (2017) ‘State of emergency’: the politics of Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak, 2008/09 (Oxford) https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:59eb2383-2caa-49c6-912c-a8b34506ef02
Chogugudza, Patricia. (2005) Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality, and Culture: The Lives of Zimbabwe Women Under Patriarchy. (Texas).
Daimon, A. (2015) ‘Mabhurandaya’: the Malawian diaspora in Zimbabwe: 1895 to 2008 (UFS). https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/handle/11660/4766
Doré, D. (1993) Land tenure and the economics of rural transformation : a study of strategies to relieve land pressure and poverty in the communal areas of Zimbabwe (Oxford)
Dorman, S. R. (2001) Inclusion and exclusion : NGOs and politics in Zimbabwe (Oxford) https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/493
Duffy, Lynne. (2002) HIV/AIDS in Context: The Culture of Health Promotion Among Ndau Women in Rural Zimbabwe. (Walden University).
Fontein, J. (2003) The silence of Great Zimbabwe: contested landscapes and the power of heritage (Edinburgh)
Friesen, P. (2022) Democratic Enculturation: Explaining Inaugural Party Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa. (Notre Dame) https://curate.nd.edu/show/cv43nv96d5n
Gandiwa, E., (2013). The Numbers Game in Wildlife Conservation: Changeability and framing of large mammal numbers in Zimbabwe. (Wageningen University). https://edepot.wur.nl/278659
Garlake, Peter S. (1992) Rock art in Zimbabwe. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029499
Goebel, A. (1997) ‘No Spirits Control the Trees’: History, Culture and Gender in the Social Forest in a Zimbabwean Resettlement Area. (Alberta)
Hindin, M. J. (1998). Household Power Imbalances The Health Consequences for Women and Children in Zimbabwe. (Johns Hopkins)
Hinfelaar, M. (2001) Respectable and responsible women : Methodist and Roman Catholic women’s organisations in Harare, Zimbabwe (1919-1985) (Utrecht.)
Holtzclaw, H. (2004) The Third Chimurenga? : state terror and state organized violence in Zimbabwe’s commercial farming communities (Michigan State) https://d.lib.msu.edu/etd/32794
Horn, N. (1988) The Culture, Urban Context and Economics of Women’s Fresh Produce Marketing in Harare, Zimbabwe. (Michigan State)
Howard, M. (2020) Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army 1956- 1981: The Loyalties of Professional. (Oxford). https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2dbdd473-9bcf-4526-9496-aad88e06d02f
Huff, B. J. (1996) Christian Women’s Organization in Zimbabwe: Facilitating Women’s Participation in Development Through Advocacy and Education. (Massachusetts).
Hutton, M. J. (2019) Seeing like a second city: contested development in the African townships of late colonial Bulawayo, Rhodesia, 1949-1977 (Edinburgh) https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/36061
Impey, A. M. 1992 They Want Us With Salt and Onions: Women in the Zimbabwean Music Industry. (Indiana University).
James, G. (2015) Transforming rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe: experiences of Fast Track Land Reform, 2000-2012 (Edinburgh) Embargoed https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/21119
Jeater, D. (1990) Marriage, perversion & power : the construction of moral discourse in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1890-1930 (Oxford)
Jenkins, C. (1999) Post-independence economic policies and outcomes in Zimbabwe (Oxford)
Kaler, A. (1998). Fertility, Gender and War: The ‘Culture of Contraception’ in Zimbabwe, 1957-1980. (Minnesota).
Karekwaivanane, G. H. (2013) Legal encounters : law, state and society in Zimbabwe, c.1950-1990 (Oxford)
Kanchense, J. (2005). Patriarchy and the Struggle for Women’s Health in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2005. (Nebraska).
Kenrick, D. (2016) Pioneers and Progress: White Rhodesian Nation-Building, c.1964-1979 (Oxford) https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a9e3ff0d-dfca-4e19-8adc-788c3e7faf9f
Kori, Arkmore (2022) Parliamentary Committees and Good Governance in Africa: A Comparative Study of Kenya and Zimbabwe. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00038324
Kufakurinani, U. (2015) White Women and Domesticity in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890 to 1980. (Zimbabwe)
Laurie, C (2012) Political violence in Zimbabwe’s land seizure era (Oxford) Embargoed.
Lewis, Simon Keith. (1996). By Europe, Out of Africa: White Women Writers on Farms and Their African Invention. (University of Michigan).
Lueker, L. L. (1998) Women, War and Social Change in Zimbabwe: The Challenge of Independence. San Diego, (University of California).
Machingaidze, V., ‘The Development of Settler Capitalist Agriculture in Southern Rhodesia with Particular Reference to the Role of the State, 1908-1939’ (PhD Dissertation, University of London, London, 1980).
Makura-Paradza, G. G. (2010) Single women, land and livelihood vulnerability in an communal area in Zimbabwe. Wageningen University http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/clc/1937452
Mandaza, I. (1978) White settler ideology, African nationalism and the ‘coloured’ question in Southern Africa: Southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Northern Rodesia/Zambia and Nyasaland/Malawi, 1900-1976. University of York, Thesis Section T2176
Manyanga, M (2001) .Choices and constraints : animal resource exploitation in south-eastern Zimbabwe c. AD 900-1500 (Uppsala).
Manyise, T. (2022) Linking value chain partnerships to entrepreneurial learning: implications for agrifood systems resilience (Wageningen University).
Mare, A. (2016) Facebook, youth and political action: a comparative study of Zimbabwe and South Africa (Rhodes) https://commons.ru.ac.za/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:3553
Marewo, M.K. (2020). Fast track land reform and belonging: examining linkages between resettlement areas and communal areas in Zvimba District, Zimbabwe. (University of Cape Town). http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32549
Marmon, B. (2020) Pan-Africanism versus partnership: African decolonisation in Southern Rhodesian politics, ca. 1950-1963 (Edinburgh) Embargoed. https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/37513
Matsilele, T. (2019) Social media dissidence in Zimbabwe (Johannesburg) https://ujcontent.uj.ac.za/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Social-media-dissidence-in-Zimbabwe/9911494007691
Mavhunga, C. (2008)”The Mobile Workshop: Technology, and Human-Animal Interaction in Gonarezhou (National Park), 1850-Present,” (University of Michigan).
Maxwell, D. J. (1994) A social and conceptual history of North-East Zimbabwe, 1890-1990 (Oxford).
Mazarire, G. (2009), A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF CHISHANGA: SOUTH-CENTRAL ZIMBABWE c.1750-2000, (University of Zimbabwe)
McLaughlin, J. (1991) “The Catholic Church and the War of Liberation,” (University of Zimbabwe).
McGregor, J. (1991) “Woodland Resources: Ecology, Policy and Ideology,” (Loughborough).
Mhike, Ivo. (2016) Deviance and colonial power: a history of juvenile delinquency in colonial Zimbabwe, 790-c.1960 (UFS). https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/handle/11660/4778
Miriyoga, L. (2017) The Fragmentation and Everydayness of Diasporic Citizenship: Experiences of Zimbabweans in South Africa and the United Kingdom (Year 2000 and Beyond) (RHUL) https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/29345196/2017MiriyogaLphd.pdf
Molife, B. J. (1998) Becoming Ndebele: The Decorated Homes of Matabeleland. University of Iowa.
Moss, B. A. (1992). Holding Body and Soul Together: Women, Autonomy and Christianity in Colonial Zimbabwe. Ph. D. diss., (Indiana University).
Mpofu, S. (2014) Public and Diasporic Online Media in the Discursive Construction of National Identity: A Case of ‘Zimbabwe’. Wits
Mseba, A. ‘Land, power and social relations in northeastern Zimbabwe from pre-colonial times to the 1950s’, (PhD Thesis: University of Iowa, 2015)
Mubaya, R. (2020), [-In]tangible Heritage, Humans and the Environment: An ethnographic account of the conservation of Chingoma Falls in South-eastern Zimbabwe Tilburg University Open access: https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/e4a6576f-35c1-49e2-8af6-993f6dc54888Open access: https://doi.org/10.18174/565634
Mudeka, I. (2011) ’We Faced Mabvuto’: A Gendered Socio-Economic History of Malawian Women’s Migration and Survival in Harare, 1940-1980. University of Minnesota.
Mudiwa, R. (2018) “The Prostitute as Citizen: Mobile Women, Urban Space, and the Threat of Disorder in Zimbabwe.” (Indiana University)
Mujere, J. (2012) Autochthons, strangers, modernising educationists, and progressive farmers: Basotho struggles for belonging in Zimbabwe 1930s-2008 (Edinburgh) https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/8237/Mujere2012.pdf
Mukodzongi, G. (2013) Fast tracking land reform and rural livelihoods in Mashonaland West province of Zimbabwe : opportunities and constraints, 2000-2013 https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/9717
Murungweni, C. (2011) Vulnerability and resilience of competing land-based livelihoods in south eastern Zimbabwe. Wageningen University http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/408941
Mutsvairo, B. (2013) Power and participatory politics in the digital age : probing the use of new media technologies in railroading political changes in Zimbabwe. Degree grantor: Leiden University Open access: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/20974
Naidoo, D. (1997) Women’s Empowerment in Alternate Work Organizations and Community Development: The Case of Zimbabwe. Arizona State University.
Ncube, Innocent (2022) ‘Made by China’: the politics and implications of Chinese government funded and constructed Parliament buildings in Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00037838
Ncube, C. (2010) Contesting hegemony: Civil society and the struggle for social change in Zimbabwe, 2000-2008. (Birmingham) https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/1086/1/Ncube10PhD.pdf
Ncube, L. B. (2000) Entrepreneurial Careers of Women in Zimbabwe. Purdue
Ndoro, W. (2001) Your monument our shrine : the preservation of Great Zimbabwe (Uppsala)
Ndumeya, N. (2015) Acquisition, ownership and use of natural resources in South Eastern Zimbabwe, 1929-1969. (UFS) https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/handle/11660/4063
Pasirayi, P. (2016) The media and cultural productions in the context of the Third Chimurenga in Zimbabwe, 2000 to 2005 (Oxford) Online access
Patel, R. C. (2002) Resistance in a Time of Fascism: Feminism, Global Capital and Solidarity from Zimbabwe. (Cornell)
Patel, Trishula (2021) Becoming Zimbabwean: A History of Indians in Rhodesia, 1890-1980 (Georgetown). https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/1062355
Peck,J, (2004) “Community Adaptations in Achieving Sustainable Livelihoods in Zimbabwe,” (University of Wisconsin, Madison).
Phillips, O. (1999) Sexual Offences in Zimbabwe: Fetishisms of Procreation, Perversion, and Individual Autonomy. (Cambridge).
Pikovskaia, K. (2021) ‘Vendors keep this economy running’: economic informalisation and citizenship in Harare, Zimbabwe (Oxford) Embargoed. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d46cddbd-00e2-44a8-ad65-3c87f887d5ed
Ranchod-Nilsson, S. (1992) Gender Politics and National Liberation: Women’s Participation in the Liberation of Zimbabwe. (Northwestern).
Rennie, J. (1973) “Christianity, Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism Among the Ndau of Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1935,” (Northwestern University).
Rice, S. (1991) The Commonwealth initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979-1980 : implications for international peacekeeping (Oxford)
Rutherford, B. (1996) ‘Traditions’ of Domesticity in ‘Modern’ Zimbabwean Politics: Race, Gender, and Class in the Government of Commercial Farm Workers in Hurungwe District. (McGill).
Sadomba, W. Z. (2008) War veterans in Zimbabwe’s land occupations: complexities of a liberation movement in an African post-colonial settler society. (Wageningen University) http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/clc/1877836
Scarnecchia, T. (1993) The Politics of Gender and Class in the Creation of African Communities, Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1937-1957. (Michigan).
Schiphorst, F. (2001) Strength and weakness : the rise of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and the development of labour relations, 1980-1995. (Leiden).
Schmidt, E. (1987) Ideology, Economics, and the Role of Shona Women in Southern Rhodesia, 1850-1987. (University of Wisconsin).
Schmidt, H. (1996) The social and economic impact of political violence in Zimbabwe, 1890-1990 : a case study of the Honde Valley (Oxford)
Scoones, I. (1990). Livestock Populations and the Household Economy : a case study from southern Zimbabwe (London) https://www.scribd.com/document/435643265/Ian-Christopher-Scoones-1990-PhD-Thesis
Selby, A. (2006) Commercial farmers and the state : interest group politics and land reform in Zimbabwe (Oxford). https://mokoro.co.uk/land-rights-article/commercial-farmers-and-the-state-interest-group-politics-and-land-reform-in-zimbabwe/
Sibanda, N. (2012) British Party Politics and Foreign Policy: The Case of Zimbabwe. Doctoral thesis, University of Huddersfield. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/18076/
Sierlis, J.K. (1999)Arcadia : urban space and coloured identities in Harare, : Zimbabwe (Oxford)
Simbanegavi, Josephine. 1997 Zimbabwean Women in the Liberation Struggle: ZANLA and Its Legacy. Oxford.
Simpson, J. (2017) Monitoring Marange : human rights surveillance, the Kimberley Process, and Zimbabwe’s blood diamonds (Oxford) Online access
Simmons, D. (2002). Managing misfortune : HIV/AIDS, health development, and traditional healers in Zimbabwe (Michigan State)
Sohaili, V. (2023) “The Shape of Unity: Architecture, Art, and the Designs of Postwar Transnational Settler Colonial Community.” (Princeton University).
Tarisayi, K. S. The social capital influences of land reform beneficiaries and communal farmers on satellite schools in Zimbabwe (Kwazulu-Natal)
Taru, J. (2019) Money, wealth, and consumption among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Harare (Pretoria) https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/72549
Tavuyanago, B. (2016) Living on the fringes of a protected area: Gonarezhou National Park (GNP) and the indigenous communities of South East Zimbabwe 1934-2008 (Pretoria). https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/57222
Tendi, M. (2008) Zimbabwe’s third Chimurenga : the use and abuse of history (Oxford)
Tinhu, S (2022) Villages, politics and the everyday statemaking of post independent Zimbabwe (Edinburgh) Embargoed https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/39263
Tofa, M. (2019). Interrogating the characteristics, challenges, and trajectory of opposition party politics in Zimbabwe: 1980-2013. (University of Johannesburg, South Africa).
Urban-Mead, Wendy. 2004 Religion, Women, and Gender in the Brethren in Christ Church, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, 1898-1978. Columbia University.
Verheul, S. (2017) . Government is a legal fiction’: performing political power in Zimbabwe’s magistrates’ courts after 2000 (Oxford) https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c68c58b2-71b8-48ae-9388-6f8b8c3c1b28
Winter, Simon M. (1998) Institutional dynamics of manufacturing under structural adjustment: Zimbabwe 1990-1996. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029364
Whittaker, Blake (2014) THE ‘NEW MODEL’ ARMIES OF AFRICA?: THE BRITISH MILITARY ADVISORY AND TRAINING TEAM AND THE CREATION OF THE ZIMBABWE NATIONAL ARMY . (Texas A&M) https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/79648446.pdf
Wilson, K, (1990)”Ecological Dynamics and Human Welfare: a Case Study of Health, Diet and Nutrition in Southern Zimbabwe” ( University College London).
Zawe, C. (2006) Reforms in turbulent times: a study on the theory and practice of three irrigation management policy reform models in Mashonaland, Zimbabwe. Degree grantor: Wageningen University Open access: http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/349750
Zamchiya, P. (2012) Agrarian change in Zimbabwe: politics, production and accumulation (Oxford) Embargoed. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:25e709cb-d621-47fa-a68e-db89ddacc3b3
Zeinstra, R. (2023) “Bush War: An Environmental History of Zimbabwe’s Liberation,” (Princeton University).
Zigomo, K. (2021) Pentecostalism, Politics, and Leadership in Zimbabwe (RHUL), embargoed until 11/05/26 https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/publications/pentecostalism-politics-and-leadership-in-zimbabwe
Zuvalinyenga, D. (2021) Naming practices, identity, power, and communication in Bindura, Zimbabwe (Newcastle, Australia) https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:38478
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