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Since the introduction of the fast track land reform programme in
2000, Zimbabwe has undergone major economic and political shifts
and these have had a profound impact on both urban and rural
livelihoods. This book provides rich empirical studies that examine
a range of multi-faceted and contested livelihoods within the
context of systemic crises. Taking a broad political economy
approach, the chapters advance a grounded and in-depth
understanding of emerging and shifting livelihood processes,
strategies and resilience that foregrounds agency at household
level. Highlighting an emergent scholarship amongst young black
scholars in Zimbabwe, and providing an understanding of how people
and communities respond to socio-economic challenges, this book is
an important read for scholars of African political economy,
southern African studies and livelihoods.
This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the
nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean
countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state's fast track
land reform programme. In an innovative way, it highlights the
decentralized character of the occupations by recognizing
significant spatial variation around a number of key themes,
including historical memory, modes of mobilization and gender. A
case study of the land occupations in Mashonaland Central Province,
based on original research, adds empirical weight to the argument.
In further identifying and understanding the specificities and
complexities of the land occupations, the book also frames them by
way of a nuanced comparative-historical analysis of the three
zvimurenga. It thus examines the land occupations (referred to,
likely controversially, as the 'third chimurenga') with reference
to the original anti-colonial revolt from the 1890s (the first
chimurenga) and the war of liberation in the 1970s (the second
chimurenga). Further, the book engages critically with the ruling
party's chimurenga narrative and the hegemonic understanding of the
land occupations within Zimbabwean studies. This book is a crucial
read for all scholars and students of post-2000 land and politics
in Zimbabwe, but also for those more broadly interested in
historical-comparative analyses of land struggles in Zimbabwe and
beyond.
This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in
the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe. Throughout
the literature of Zimbabwean studies, a consideration of everyday
lives has been limited to informal trading and rarely applied as an
analytical framework, despite the importance of understanding
crisis-living with reference to the specific character of national
crises across the African continent. This edited volume is one of
the first in its field to theorise everyday Zimbabwean lives within
the context of crisis, with three central themes addressed: urban
and rural lives; men, women and HIV; and along and beyond the
border. Chapters incorporate topics from child marriage and sexual
practices, to climate change and social accountability,
encompassing a shift in focus from macro-structures to how farm
labourers, students, child-brides and other ordinary people
negotiate gender, class and social dynamics within a dominant
order. The introductory chapter offers an innovative analytical
framing for the empirical chapters which follow, each providing
micro-studies based on original qualitative fieldwork by
early-career Zimbabwean scholars. Everyday Crisis-Living in
Contemporary Zimbabwe will appeal to students and scholars of
sociology, anthropology and African Studies more broadly.
Since the introduction of the fast track land reform programme in
2000, Zimbabwe has undergone major economic and political shifts
and these have had a profound impact on both urban and rural
livelihoods. This book provides rich empirical studies that examine
a range of multi-faceted and contested livelihoods within the
context of systemic crises. Taking a broad political economy
approach, the chapters advance a grounded and in-depth
understanding of emerging and shifting livelihood processes,
strategies and resilience that foregrounds agency at household
level. Highlighting an emergent scholarship amongst young black
scholars in Zimbabwe, and providing an understanding of how people
and communities respond to socio-economic challenges, this book is
an important read for scholars of African political economy,
southern African studies and livelihoods.
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