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Record W4417104417 · doi:10.1080/00083968.2025.2580618

Political insecurity and citizens’ responses in contemporary Zimbabwe

2025· article· en· W4417104417 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Enock Ndawana

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAfrican studies and sociopolitical issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsGovernment (linguistics)Agency (philosophy)Power (physics)Poverty

Abstract

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Although the Zimbabwean crisis had both political and economic dimensions, which were interconnected, little is known about how the citizens survived the political turmoil. This article examines how Zimbabweans have responded to political insecurity. It draws on the idea of everyday resistance and a combination of primary and secondary sources. The article demonstrates that the political survival tactics devised by Zimbabweans enabled some citizens to regain their political voice, while others managed to secure themselves from physical harm only. The tactics included flight, silence, feigning compliance and belonging to the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front party, and utilising digital technologies, especially social media. The article concludes that although citizens can devise various forms of everyday resistance to navigate and resist political insecurity in semi-authoritarian environments such as those found in Zimbabwe, they are not entirely free from political insecurity and its concomitant insecurities.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.750
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.005
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.071
GPT teacher head0.324
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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