Displacement, Elimination and Replacement of Indigenous People : Putting into Perspective Land Ownership and Ancestry in Decolonising Contemporary Zimbabwe.
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Kangira, Jairos, 1961- author. Nhemachena, Artwell, editor. Mlambo, Nelson, 1977- editor. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2019. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | Colonial scholars have taken immense pleasure in portraying Africans as possessed by spirits but as lacking possession and ownership of their resources, including land. Erroneously deemed to be thoroughly spiritually possessed but lacking senses of material possession and ownership of resources, Africans have been consistently dispossessed and displaced from the era of enslavement, through colonialism, to the neocolonial era. Delving into the historiography of dispossession and displacement on the continent of Africa, and in particular in Zimbabwe, this book also tackles contemporary forms of dispossession and displacement manifesting in the ongoing transnational corporations land grabs in Africa, wherein African peasants continue to be dispossessed and displaced. Focusing on the topical issues around dispossession and repossession of land, and the attendant displacements in contemporary Zimbabwe, the book theorises displacements from a decolonial Pan-Africanist perspective and it also unpacks various forms of displacements � corporeal, noncorporeal, cognitive, spiritual, genealogical and linguistic displacements, among others. The book is an excellent read for scholars from a variety of disciplines such as Geography, Sociology, Social Anthropology, History, Linguistics, Development Studies, Science and technology Studies, Jurisprudence and Social Theory, Law and Philosophy. The book also offers intellectual grit for policy makers and implementers, civil society organisations including activists as well as thinkers interested in decolonisation and transformation. |
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| Item Description: | The Significance of Land Ownership and Identity Print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
| Bibliography: | ReferencesChapter Four-Pegging Out Claims in Space and Place: The Theme of Land Redistribution in the Music of Simon Chimbetu; Introduction; Why Chimbetu?; Some Theoretical Considerations; Orality and the Past; The Zimbabwean Land Redistribution; Chimbetu's Cultural Context; Performance and Entertainment; Metaphor in Chimbetu's Music; Conclusion; References; Chapter Five-Of Mothers, Umbilical Cords and Tongues: Land Ownership, Language and Identity in Chirikure Chirikure's Rukuvhute; Introduction; Background; Theoretical Framework; Of Mothers, Language and Identity |
| ISBN: | 9956550914 9789956550913 |