Unsettled Land : State-making and the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe 1893-2003 -- Hardback

Alexander, Jocelyn

James Currey（2006/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 商品コード 9780852558935
• DDC分類 968.9102

Full Description

In early 2000, a process of land occupation began in Zimbabwe. It involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of black farmers onto mostly white-owned farms, often under the leadership of veterans of Zimbabwe's 1970s liberationwar. The ZANU(PF) government cast this moment as the end of colonialism. Others saw it as mere electioneering, the desperate machinations of an illegitimate government. This poorly understood crisis has deep roots. In the settler period the government of Rhodesia divided the land along racial lines leaving the black population in poor and overcrowded reserves. Independent Zimbabwe not only inherited this profoundly unequal division of land but also apotent institutional and ideological legacy of contested claims to authority over the land. This combustible mix shaped political desires and discourses, as well as state and African institutions, setting the stage for the dramatic upheavals of 2000 and beyond.North America: Ohio U Press; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press(PB)

Contents

Introduction; Making the settler statethe reserves: The Native Land Husbandry Act; Remaking rural administration: knowing African society; Chiefs, nationalism & the land: knowing the colonial state; Governing the land in independent Zimbabwe; Political conflict, authority & the land in Insiza; Nationalism, 'squatters' & chiefs in Chimanimani; The new politics of an unsettled land.