Dr Kirk Helliker, senior lecturer in Sociology Department at Rhodes University said the contemporary Zimbabwean experience provides interesting insight into the role and behavior of civil society organisations, running contrary to most prior conceptions.
The idea of changing the society through the state has failed. These were the sentiments of visiting Mellon Senior Scholar and a Congolese historian at a recent two-day Sociology conference on Politics at a Distance.
Social movements discussed the challenges they are facing and different initiatives that they are involved in at a recent Sociology conference on Politics at a distance from the state.
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