MA Thesis by Maurice Hutton
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This thesis is a historical ethnographic study of late colonial planning and development in the r... more This thesis is a historical ethnographic study of late colonial planning and development in the racially segregated townships of a southern African city: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia). It analyses how the municipal township administration – with its high proportion of black and white social scientists, under the directorship of a noted anthropologist, Dr Hugh Ashton – executed an ambitious development drive to stabilise and improve the African townspeople. For nearly three decades, Ashton pursued a vision of creating ‘modern’, stratified and property-owning communities, informed by the teleological tenets of ‘detribalisation’, ‘urbanisation’ and ‘modernisation’ theories. This vision increasingly clashed with the Central Government’s segregationist agenda to re-establish the Rhodesian city as a ‘white space’ in the 1960s and ‘70s. By systematically analysing why, and how, the Bulawayo City Council persisted with its township development vision, even under this reactionary regime...
This thesis is a historical ethnographic study of late colonial planning and development in the r... more This thesis is a historical ethnographic study of late colonial planning and development in the racially segregated townships of a southern African city: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia). It analyses how the municipal township administration – with its high proportion of black and white social scientists, under the directorship of a noted anthropologist, Dr Hugh Ashton – executed an ambitious development drive to stabilise and improve the African townspeople. For nearly three decades, Ashton pursued a vision of creating ‘modern’, stratified and property-owning communities, informed by the teleological tenets of ‘detribalisation’, ‘urbanisation’ and ‘modernisation’ theories. This vision increasingly clashed with the Central Government’s segregationist agenda to re-establish the Rhodesian city as a ‘white space’ in the 1960s and ‘70s. By systematically analysing why, and how, the Bulawayo City Council persisted with its township development vision, even under this reactionary regime...
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MA Thesis by Maurice Hutton
Conference Presentations by Maurice Hutton
Seminar by Maurice Hutton
Papers by Maurice Hutton