Whiteness in Zimbabwe
Subtitle: race, landscape, and the problem of belonging
By: by David McDermott Hughes.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780230621435; 9780230621428
Subjects: Whites -- Zimbabwe -- History; Whites -- Social conditions -- Zimbabwe -- History; Whites -- Race identity -- Zimbabwe -- History; Land settlement -- Social aspects -- Zimbabwe; Land tenure -- Social aspects -- Zimbabwe; Group identity -- Zimbabwe -- History; Social isolation -- Zimbabwe -- History; Zimbabwe -- Race relations -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The art of belonging; title: Engineering and its redemption; title: Owning Lake Kariba; title: Hydrology of hope; title: Playing the game; title: Belonging awkwardly.