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CIVIC VIRTUE, YOUNG MEN, AND THE FAMILY: CONSCRIPTION IN RHODESIA, 1974-1980
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In John Lonsdale's concept of civic virtue it is the hard work of young men (and women), performed either for themselves or for others, that earns them the rights of membership in, and the responsibilities toward, a broader political collectivity in which public debate is always somewhat disturbed by the differences among the older men the young men have grown up to be.1 This may be an extremely useful way to think about African politics after World War II, because it brings families into political processes so forcefully: it is a way to interrogate how families see the state. The idea of ...
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