Remaking Mutirikwi
Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe
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Word Count
91,250 words, Guess
Page Count
365 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28567365M
- ISBN-139781847011121
- OCLC Control Number917363715
- OCLC Control Number919695750
- Internet Archiveremakingmutirikw0000font
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- Library of Congress Control Number2015460370
Classifications
- LCCHD1333
- LCCDT3020.M87
- LCCHC910.Z7 M88 2015
Description
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. 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 as the 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 over landscape, water and belonging they provoked.
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