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dc.contributor.authorBwerinofa, Iyleen Judy
dc.contributor.authorMahenehene, Jacob
dc.contributor.authorManaka, Makiwa
dc.contributor.authorMulotshwa, Bulisiwe
dc.contributor.authorMurimbarimba, Felix
dc.contributor.authorMutoko, Moses
dc.contributor.authorSarayi, Vincent
dc.contributor.authorScoones, Ian
dc.coverage.spatialZimbabween
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-09T14:33:18Z
dc.date.available2022-08-09T14:33:18Z
dc.date.issued2022-08-09
dc.identifier.citationBwerinofa, I.J.; Mahenehene, J.; Manaka, M.; Mulotshwa, B.; Murimbarimba, F.; Mutoko, M.; Sarayi, V. and Scoones, I. (2022) Living Through a Pandemic: Competing Covid-19 Narratives in Rural Zimbabwe, IDS Working Paper 575, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2022.058en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-80470-020-4
dc.identifier.issn2040-0209
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17593
dc.description.abstractThrough a real time analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic across rural Zimbabwe, this Working Paper explores the competing narratives that framed responses and their politics. Based on 20 moments of reflection over two years, together with ongoing document and media analysis and an intensive period of qualitative interviewing, a complex, dynamic story of the pandemic ‘drama’ emerges, which contrasts with snapshot perspectives. Across the period, a science-led public health narrative intersects with a security and control narrative promoted by the state and is countered by a citizens’ narrative that emphasises autonomy, independence, and local innovation. The politics of this contestation over narratives about appropriate pandemic responses are examined over three periods – reflecting different waves of infection – and in relation to two conjunctures – an early, strict lockdown and the rollout of vaccines. Different narratives gain ascendancy and overlap at different times, but a local citizen-led narrative emerges strongly in the context of heavy-handed lockdowns, inadequate state capacity, and struggles around rural livelihoods. The pandemic has reshaped relationships between the state and citizens in important ways, with self-reliance rooted in local resilience central to local pandemic responses.en
dc.description.sponsorshipEconomic and Social Research Councilen
dc.description.sponsorshipForeign, Commonwealth & Development Officeen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInstitute of Development Studiesen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Working Paper;575
dc.rightsThis is an Open Access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectHealthen
dc.subjectPolitics and Poweren
dc.subjectScience and Societyen
dc.titleLiving Through a Pandemic: Competing Covid-19 Narratives in Rural Zimbabween
dc.typeIDS Working Paperen
dc.rights.holderInstitute of Development Studiesen
dc.identifier.teamRural Futuresen
dc.identifier.doi10.19088/IDS.2022.058
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-08-09
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