Displacement, elimination and replacement of Indigenous people putting into perspective land ownership and ancestry in decolonising contemporary Zimbabwe / edited by Jairos Kangira, Artwell Nhemachena & Nelson Mlambo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mlambo, Nelson, 1977- editor.

Nhemachena, Artwell, editor.

Kangira, Jairos, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--Zimbabwe.

Decolonization.

Land tenure--Zimbabwe--History.

Land tenure.

Land reform--Zimbabwe.

Land reform.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Summary:

Colonial scholars have taken immense pleasure in portraying Africans as possessed by spirits but as lacking possession and ownership of their resources, including land. Erroneously deemed to be thoroughly spiritually possessed but lacking senses of material possession and ownership of resources, Africans have been consistently dispossessed and displaced from the era of enslavement, through colonialism, to the neocolonial era. Delving into the historiography of dispossession and displacement on the continent of Africa, and in particular in Zimbabwe, this book also tackles contemporary forms of dispossession and displacement manifesting in the ongoing transnational corporations land grabs in Africa, wherein African peasants continue to be dispossessed and displaced. Focusing on the topical issues around dispossession and repossession of land, and the attendant displacements in contemporary Zimbabwe, the book theorises displacements from a decolonial Pan-Africanist perspective and it also unpacks various forms of displacements -- corporeal, noncorporeal, cognitive, spiritual, genealogical and linguistic displacements, among others. The book is an excellent read for scholars from a variety of disciplines such as Geography, Sociology, Social Anthropology, History, Linguistics, Development Studies, Science and technology Studies, Jurisprudence and Social Theory, Law and Philosophy. The book also offers intellectual grit for policy makers and implementers, civil society organisations including activists as well as thinkers interested in decolonisation and transformation.

Contents:

Theorising displacement, elimination and replacement of indigenous people: an introduction to decolonising land issues / Artwell Nhemachena, Jairos Kangira & Nelson Mlambo

Land dispossession and the genesis of crises in Zimbabwe: implications for sustainable livelihoods and people-centred development as depicted in selected Zimbabwean fictional narratives / Ruby Magosvongwe

'Mapfuma angu achamuka' (My bones will rise again): spirituality, history, memory and ancestry in land ownership 'Debates' in Zimbabwe / Collen Sabao

Pegging out claims in space and place: the theme of land redistribution in the music of Simon Chimbetu / Charles Pfukwa

Of mothers, umbilical cords and tongues: land ownership, language and identity in Chirikure Chirikure's Rukuvhute / Angeline Mavis Madongonda & Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga

Discourse of colonial displacement: the impetus of selected historical novels / Colleta Kandemiri & Nelson Mlambo

Special marginalisation: (Re)reading Musaemura Zimunya's gendered space and place in Country dawns and City lights / Angeline Mavis Madongonda

The San people of Zimbabwe: decades after land dispossession / Shuvai Chingwe

Interrogation of the nexus between land restitution and poverty alleviation in contemparary Zimbabwe / Blessing Makunike

The gendered dispossession of land in colonial Rhodesia: an analysis of Thomson Kumbirai Tsodzo's Pafunge and Patrick Chakaipa's Dzasukwa Mwana-Asina-Hembe / Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga

Fictionalising resistance to land repossession: political economies of displacement and the imagination of a better Zimbabwe / Nelson Mlambo & Jairos Kangira.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9956-550-91-4

OCLC:

1101038890