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Remaking Mutirikwi - Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe (Hardcover)
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Remaking Mutirikwi - Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe (Hardcover)
Series: Eastern Africa Series
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Finalist for the African Studies Association 2016 Melville J.
Herskovits Award A detailed ethnographic and historical study of
the implications of fast-track land reform in Zimbabwe from the
perspective of those involvedin land occupations around Lake
Mutirikwi, from the colonial period to the present day. The
Mutirikwi river was dammed in the early 1960s to make Zimbabwe's
second largest lake. This was a key moment in the Europeanisation
of Mutirikwi's landscapes, which had begun with colonial land
appropriations in the 1890s. ButAfrican landscapes were not
obliterated by the dam. They remained active and affective. At
independence in 1980, local clans reasserted ancestral land claims
in a wave of squatting around Lake Mutirikwi. They were soon
evicted asthe new government asserted control over the remaking of
Mutirikwi's landscapes. Amid fast-track land reform in the 2000s,
the same people returned again to reclaim the land. Many returned
to the graves and ruins of past lives forged in the very substance
of the soil, and even incoming war veterans and new farmers
appealed to autochthonous knowledge to make safe their
resettlements. This book explores those reoccupations and the
complex contests overlandscape, water and belonging they provoked.
The 2000s may have heralded a long-delayed re-Africanisation of
Lake Mutirikwi, but just as African presence had survived the dam,
so white presence remains active and affective through
Rhodesian-era discourses, place-names and the materialities of
ruined farms, contour ridging and old irrigation schemes. Through
lenses focused on the political materialities of water and land,
this book reveals how the remaking of Mutirikwi's landscapes has
always been deeply entangled with changing strategies of colonial
and postcolonial statecraft. It highlights how the traces of
different pasts intertwine in contemporary politics through the
active, enduring yet emergent, forms and substances of landscape.
Joost Fontein is Director of the British Institute in Eastern
Africa and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of
Edinburgh. Published in association with the British Institute in
Eastern Africa.
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