Hughes Whiteness in Zimbabwe

Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging
2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-10633-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten, eBook

European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule. Arriving in the 1890s, white settlers never comprised more than a tiny minority. Instead of grafting themselves onto local societies, they adopted a strategy of escape.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hughes, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface The Art of Belonging The Zambezi Engineering and its Redemption Owning Lake Kariba The Farms Hydrology of Hope Playing the Game Belonging Awkwardly References

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID MCDERMOTT HUGHES is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology and a member of the Graduate Faculty of Geography at Rutgers University, USA.