From enslavement to environmentalism
Subtitle: politics on a Southern African frontier
By: David McDermott Hughes.
Series: Culture, place, and nature
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Land use -- Zimbabwe -- Vhimba -- History; Land tenure -- Zimbabwe -- Vhimba -- History; Land use -- Mozambique -- Gogói -- History; Land tenure -- Mozambique -- Gogói -- History; Vhimba (Zimbabwe) -- Colonization; Gogói (Mozambique) -- Colonization
Description: "This book takes a challenging ethnographic and historical look at the politics of eco-development in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border zone. David Hughes argues that European colonization in southern Africa - essentially an unsuccessful effort to turn the region into another North America or Australia - has profoundly reshaped rural politics and culture and continues to do so to this day, as neoliberal developers commoditize the lands of African peasants in the name of conservation and economic progress."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : power on African frontiers; title: Compulsory labor and unclaimed land in Gogoi, Mozambique, 1862-1992; title: From clientship to land-grabbing in Vhimba, Zimbabwe, 1893-1990; title: Refugees, squatters, and the politics of land allocation in Vhimba; title: Community forestry as land-grabbing in Vhimba; title: Expatriate loggers and mapmakers in Gogoi; title: Open native reserves or none?; title: In conclusion, three liberal projects reassessed.