Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe : Beyond White-Settler Capitalism.
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Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe : Beyond White-Settler Capitalism.
Yazar:
Moyo, Sam.
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9782869785700
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1 online resource (374 pages)
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables, Figures and Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Roots of the Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Accumulation by dispossession in former settler-colonial Africa -- The prospects and challenges of Zimbabwe's land and agrarian reform -- The structural adjustment of intellectual discourse: some methodological notes -- Outline of the chapters -- Notes -- References -- 2. Land Reform and Redistribution in Zimbabwe Since 1980 -- Introduction -- Market-based land reform and its contradictions -- The Fast Track Land Redistribution Policy and its implementation -- FTLRP policy contradictions and adjustments -- Land redistribution and the reformation of property rights -- Reformation of agricultural property rights and land tenure relations -- Identity and nationality issues emerging from the FTLRP process -- Gender dimensions of the land redistribution programme -- The changing agrarian structure and class dynamics after the FTLRP -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 3. A Decade of Zimbabwe's Land Revolution: The Politics of the War Veteran Vanguard -- Introduction -- Historical background -- The land occupations revolution of 1998-2002 -- Climax of the revolution 2000-2002 -- The Fast Track Land Reform Programme -- Murambatsvina period -- Rupture with the capitalist system? -- Conclusion: towards a theory of Zimbabwe's revolution -- Notes -- References -- 4. Nyabira-Mazowe War Veterans' Association: A Microcosm of the National Land Occupation Movement -- Introduction -- Origin and class composition of the NMWVA membership -- Organisational and leadership structure of the NMWVA -- Micro-mobilisation of land movements and relations with the state.
Crystallising individual actions into collective actions -- The development of new social networks in farming areas -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5. Changing Agrarian Labour Relations after Land Reform in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Agrarian structure, production and labour relations -- New agrarian labour relations after land reform -- Changing agricultural production relations and labour utilisation -- Economic and social conditions of agrarian labour -- Politics of rural labour after the FTLRP -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. Changing Agrarian Relations after Redistributive Land Reform in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Agrarian history and land reform -- Agrarian reform policies since the FTLRP -- Changing agrarian production relations -- Differentiated access to agricultural inputs and markets -- Changing farmer organisation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7. Social Organisation in the Aftermath of 'Fast Track': An Analysis of Emerging Forms of Local Authority, Platforms of Mobilisation and Local Cooperation -- Introduction -- Evolution of forms of social organisation in rural Zimbabwe -- Nature and context of economic and social grievances since the FTLRP -- Changing land relations and the local state -- Cooperation amongst resettled households -- Nature of the emerging local state in Fast Track areas -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8. Media Framing of Land Reform in Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- Perspectives on Zimbabwe's land question -- The media situation during the colonial period -- The media context after independence -- Approaches to land and agrarian reporting since 2000 -- Private media framing of land and agrarian issues -- Framing of land and agrarian issues in the international media -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- International Media -- Private Media -- Public Media.
9. The Zimbabwe Model: Radicalisation, Reform and Resistance -- Introduction -- The decolonisation of Zimbabwe: why history matters -- Radicalisation and its mode of mobilisation -- Structural reform and its new contradictions -- Resistance through non-alignment -- Conclusion: lessons from Zimbabwe -- References -- Back cover.
Özet:
The Fast Track Land Reform Programme implemented during the 2000s in Zimbabwe represents the only instance of radical redistributive land reforms since the end of the Cold War. It reversed the racially-skewed agrarian structure and discriminatory land tenures inherited from colonial rule. The land reform also radicalised the state towards a nationalist, introverted accumulation strategy, against a broad array of unilateral Western sanctions. Indeed, Zimbabweís land reform, in its social and political dynamics, must be compared to the leading land reforms of the twentieth century, which include those of Mexico, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Cuba and Mozambique. The fact that the Zimbabwe case has not been recognised as vanguard nationalism has much to do with the ëintellectual structural adjustmentí which has accompanied neoliberalism and a hostile media campaign. This has entailed dubious theories of ëneopatrimonialismí, which reduce African politics and the state to endemic ëcorruptioní, ëpatronageí, and ëtribalismí while overstating the virtues of neoliberal good governance. Under this racist repertoire, it has been impossible to see class politics, mass mobilisation and resistance, let alone believe that something progressive can occur in Africa. This book comes to a conclusion that the Zimbabwe land reform represents a new form of resistance with distinct and innovative characteristics when compared to other cases of radicalisation, reform and resistance. The process of reform and resistance has entailed the deliberate creation of a tri-modal agrarian structure to accommodate and balance the interests of various domestic classes, the progressive restructuring of labour relations and agrarian markets, the continuing pressures for radical reforms (through the indigenisation of mining and other sectors), and the rise of extensive,
albeit relatively weak, producer cooperative structures. The book also highlights some of the resonances between the Zimbabwean land struggles and those on the continent, as well as in the South in general, arguing that there are some convergences and divergences worthy of intellectual attention. The book thus calls for greater endogenous empirical research which overcomes the pre-occupation with failed interpretations of the nature of the state and agency in Africa.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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