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dc.contributor.author | Sibanda, Nkululeko![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-21T13:07:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-08-21T13:07:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article attempts to frame and examine the structuring of labour struggles from the precarious subject position of theatre workers, without isolating these struggles into the occupational sector of the creative industries in the Zimbabwean context between 1980 and 1999. In this article, I frame theatre practitioners as ‘art – workers’ and collectives such as the NTO and ZACT as mobilising and organising agencies operating within the postcolonial Zimbabwean theatre industry. On the one hand, the NTO controlled and administered purpose-built theatres, provided funding as well as organised affiliates into a unity. On the other hand, ZACT organised multi-racial Zimbabwean theatre groups into a collective, providing and mobilising financial and organisational support towards the creation of a ‘national theatre’ narrative. Deploying resource mobilisation and rational choice theories, this paper submits that NTO and ZACT mobilized and coordinated their stakeholders towards addressing the precarious work conditions in the sector. This paper argues while attempts, through theatre associations, have been undertaken to organise the creative sector, this paper submits that the precarious nature of the work, employer-employee non-distinction, lack of legal rights knowledge and fierce inter-and intra-organisational competition complicates the process of re-mobilising and organising creatives in Zimbabwe. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Drama | en_US |
dc.description.librarian | hj2024 | en_US |
dc.description.sdg | None | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rstp20 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Nkululeko Sibanda (2023) Theatre practitioners as unionists: art workers in post-independence Zimbabwe’s theatre sector (1980 – 1999), Studies in Theatre and Performance, 43:2, 240-255, DOI: 10.1080/14682761.2021.1979338. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1468-2761 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2040-0616 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1080/14682761.2021.1979338 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/97788 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an electronic version of an article published in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 240-255, 2023. doi : 10.1080/14682761.2021.1979338. Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes is available online at : https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rstp20. | en_US |
dc.subject | Zimbabwe Association of Community Theatre groups (ZACT) | en_US |
dc.subject | National Theatre Organisation (NTO) | en_US |
dc.subject | Zimbabwe | en_US |
dc.subject | Art-workers | en_US |
dc.subject | Theatre | en_US |
dc.subject | Mobilising | en_US |
dc.subject | Organising | en_US |
dc.title | Theatre practitioners as unionists : art workers in post-independence Zimbabwe’s theatre sector (1980–1999) | en_US |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en_US |