This article examines the social, political and cultural self-representations among students at the University of Zimbabwe, paying particular attention to the management of these representations and some of the significant social and political events engineered by and affecting students. These representations are important as a means of understanding the discourses of control between students of diverse gender, class and cultural backgrounds on campus. These representations are constantly being manipulated, contested and reworked in order to gain legitimacy in debates and discourses pertaining to student politics.
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