The unsettled land : state-making & the politics of land in Zimbabwe, 1893-2003 by Alexander, Jocelyn instant download

The unsettled land : state-making & the politics of land in Zimbabwe, 1893-2003 by Alexander, Jocelyn instant download

x, 230 pages : 24 cm, \"This book engages with current debates on land and politics in Africa and provides a much needed historical narrative of the Zimbabwean case. 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 liberation war. 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 a potent 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.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-219) and index, The unsettle land : an introduction -- Making the settler state : authority & the land -- Remarking the 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