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Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe
Donald S. Moore
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Description for Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe
Paperback. An ethnographic study of Zimbabwe's land occupations that focuses on the effects of spatialized struggles on sovereignty and the nation-state Num Pages: 424 pages, 15 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJP; GTB; JHMC; JPVH3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 586.
Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S. Moore probes these contentious politics by analyzing fierce disputes over territory, sovereignty, and subjection in the country’s eastern highlands. He focuses on poor farmers in Kaerezi who endured colonial evictions from their ancestral land and lived as refugees in Mozambique during Zimbabwe’s guerrilla war. After independence in 1980, Kaerezians returned home to a changed landscape. Postcolonial bureaucrats had converted their land from a white ranch into a state resettlement scheme. Those who defied this new spatial ... Read more
Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S. Moore probes these contentious politics by analyzing fierce disputes over territory, sovereignty, and subjection in the country’s eastern highlands. He focuses on poor farmers in Kaerezi who endured colonial evictions from their ancestral land and lived as refugees in Mozambique during Zimbabwe’s guerrilla war. After independence in 1980, Kaerezians returned home to a changed landscape. Postcolonial bureaucrats had converted their land from a white ranch into a state resettlement scheme. Those who defied this new spatial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822335702
SKU
V9780822335702
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About Donald S. Moore
Donald S. Moore is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a coeditor of Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe
“Donald S. Moore’s Suffering for Territory is a paradigm-shattering work in agrarian studies. Combining an impressive ethnographic study of land struggle in contemporary Zimbabwe with critical theories of sovereignty, hegemony, and race, Moore decisively and masterfully rereads the history of Zimbabwe and southern Africa through the prism of settler colonialism, colonial capitalism, and their legacies.”—Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of The ... Read more