Abstract The article explores the cardinal role that narratives, ideas, and discourses play as reference points to guide policy traction and trajectory. The study focuses on the interplay amongst the settler, liberation, and neo-liberal narratives as they informed the political economy of post-colonial Zimbabwe. Because the agency of these narratives memorialises race, privilege, native subalternism, restitution, and white hubris and neo-colonial obduracy, the article argues that the concepts of sovereignty and nation-state-building have become highly contested. Interpreted in the present but rooted in the colonial past, the indigenisation drive has become a conflicted discourse, torn between continuities and discontinuities—narratives and counter-narratives of liberation, post- colonialism, and black empowerment as against the Empire's neo-colonial modes of domination which have sanctioned a kind of “conflict in perpetuity”. Therefore, in deconstructing the contradictions of transitional politics, policy instrumentalisation, state predations, and unprecedented political contestations that make up the Zimbabwean predicament, this article argues that the trajectory of Zimbabwe's indigenisation drive reveals the saliency of ideas either as a source of legitimation, a source of contestation, or as contours for a nuanced analysis of Zimbabwe's political economy.

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殖民主义、解放和新自由主义：后殖民时期津巴布韦资源再分配的叙事和辩证法

摘要 本文探讨了叙事、思想和话语作为指导政策牵引和轨迹的参考点所起的重要作用。该研究侧重于定居者、解放和新自由主义叙事之间的相互作用，因为它们为后殖民津巴布韦的政治经济提供了信息。由于这些叙述的主体是纪念种族、特权、本土次要主义、恢复原状、白人傲慢和新殖民主义的固执，因此本文认为主权和民族国家建设的概念已引起高度争议。本土化运动在当下诠释，但植根于殖民历史，已成为一种矛盾的话语，在连续性和不连续性之间撕裂——关于解放、后殖民主义和黑人赋权反对帝国的叙述和反叙述。s 新殖民统治模式认可了一种“永恒的冲突”。因此，在解构构成津巴布韦困境的过渡政治、政策工具化、国家掠夺和前所未有的政治竞争的矛盾时，本文认为津巴布韦本土化的轨迹揭示了思想的显着性，或者作为合法性的来源，争议的来源，或作为对津巴布韦政治经济进行细致分析的轮廓。