The Unsettled Land State-making&the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe 1893-2003 Alexander, Jocelyn

  • Ohio university press
  • Year of publishing: 2006
  • Place of publishing: Ohio
  • ISBN: 0852558929
  • Language: English
  • Series: 1st

Tato kniha se zabývá současnou debatou o půdě a politice v Africe a nabízí velmi nutnou historickou analýzu případu Zimbabve. Pod vedením veteránů z války o nezávislost Zimbabwe ze 70.let byly přesunuty stovky tisíc černošských farmářů na farmy bělošských osadníků. Vláda Zanu (PF) oslavuje tento moment jako konec kolonialismu. Jiní jej vidí jako pouhou součást politické kampaně, zoufalé machinace nelegitimní vlády. Tato krize má hluboké kořeny a nebyla nikdy dobře pochopena. V období osidlování byla vládou Rhodesie půda přidělována podle rasových kritérií, a tak zůstala černošská populace v chudých a přelidněných rezervacích. Nezávislé Zimbabve nejenom zdědilo toto hluboce nerovné rozdělení půdy, ale také silný institucionální a ideologický odkaz domáhání se práv na půdu. Tato vznětlivá směs ovlivnila politické touhy a diskurs, stejně tak jako africké instituce, a přispěla tak k dramatickým nepokojům v roce 2000 a poté.

The Unsettled Land engages with the 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 had 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 inherited not only 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.

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