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Remaking Mutirikwi : landscape, water & belonging in southern Zimbabwe /
"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. But African landscapes were not obliterated by the dam. Th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk :
James Currey,
2015.
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| Colección: | Eastern Africa studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on fieldwork, notes & sources; Glossary; Acronyms & Abbreviations; Chronology; Remaking Mutirikwi: An Introduction; Setting the scene: a visit 'Kubata maoko'; Landscape, memory and the immanence of the past; Beyond the biography of a dam; Difference, time and landscape; Optimism, rain and land reform; Book structure; PART ONE : Remaking Mutirikwi in the 2000s; 1 New Farmers, Old Claims; Optimism, enthusiasm and hard work; New yet autochthonous farmers; Diverse aspirations, state-making and land reform
- Developmental aspirations and limitations Factionalism, patronage and chiefs; The politics of researching Zimbabwean land reform; 2 Graves, Ruins & Belonging; The Boroma hills; The burial of Chief Murinye; The ghost of George Sheppard; Landscapes of belonging; Graves and ruins, materiality and affect; Ontology and difference; Co-existence and proximity; 3 Rain, Power and Sovereignty; Censoring the weather forecast; Rain making in Zimbabwe; The political properties of water; Mvura yakatsamwa, ivhu rakatsamwa nokuti madzishe haasikuwirirana; Ambivalent njuzu; National biras
- A visit to Matonjeni?Mediums and the state; Water and the materiality of signs; 4 Hippos, Fishing and Irrigation; National Parks, poaching and the Kyle Game Reserve; Fishing Mutirikwi; Sovereign hippos; Irrigation; Entangled multiplicities; 5 Genealogical Geographies; Guva raGundiro and Duma genealogical geographies; Karanga expansion and Duma settlement in Masvingo in the19th century; Cadastral politics and the (re)making of the reserves; A history of graves, ruins, hills and rivers; Landscape, memory and genealogical geographies; The books of the masabhuku were always there
- PART TWO: Damming Mutirikwi 1940s-1990s6 New White Futures, New Rhodesian Settlers and Large-scaleIrrigation, 1940s-1950s; The Umshandige and Popotekwe schemes of the 1930s; Food shortages, industrial development and large-scaleirrigation planning in the 1940s and 1950s; New settlers: Hollanders, Natal sugar planters, Italians, Mauritians and former servicemen; Native irrigation and growing tensions between Southern Rhodesia and the Federation; 7 Remaking Fort Victoria's Landscapes, 1950s-1960s; Imagining, perceiving, (re)making landscape and the political materialities of becoming
- Mapping Mutirikwi Popotekwe, Kyle or Bangala?; Contesting Kyle's water; Building Rhodesia's playground; The aesthetic conscience of the nation; African removals and new Rhodesian pasts; 8 War and Danger in the Wake of the Dam, 1970s; After the dam; The Native Land Husbandry Act's demise and the growth of nationalism; From 'political unrest' to 'terrorist war'; Landscapes of war and danger; Struggles within the struggle; Rhodesian traditionalism, cultural nationalism and the return ofthe chiefs; Chiefs and mediums after the war