From Wilderness Vision to Farm Invasions - Conservation and Development in Zimbabwe`s South-east Lowveld

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-85255-436-4
Verlag: James Currey

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 372 g

African people were written out of the landscape in many parts of colonial Zimbabwe.

Conservation and development programmes in Zimbabwe's south-east 'lowveld' have been rooted in the conceptualisation of this landscape as wilderness. The uses, perceptions and experiences of this landscape by African people have been ignored in policies derived from the 'wilderness vision'. Land reform has failed to take account of the way the landscape is bound up with identity through its embodiment of ancestral spirits and function as a repository of social memories. The turbulent dynamics around farm invasions in Zimbabwe may open space for previously silenced constructions of landscape to influence policy.

North America: Tsehai/African Academic; Zimbabwe: Weaver

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolmer, William

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I LOWVELD LANDSCAPES
Landscapes of the imagination
The wilderness vision: colonial perceptions of the lowveld landscape & its inhabitants
Socialised, sacred & contested spaces:African landscapes in the lowveld
II THE PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE Lowveld livelihoods: the 'suitability' of dryland cropping in the landscape
'Backwater to breadbasket': irrigated agriculture in the lowveld
Cattle country: livestock management in the ranches & reserves
III THE 'NATURAL' LANDSCAPE Manufacturing wilderness: wildlife conservation in the lowveld
IV THE POLITICS OF LAND(SCAPE) Reclaiming the wilderness? Farm invasions in the lowveld