From wilderness vision to farm invasions: conservation & development in Zimbabwe's southeast lowveld
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2007
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| Beschreibung: | Erscheint: Oktober 2005 |
| Umfang: | VII, 246 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0852554370 0852554362 9780852554364 9781779220455 9781599070179 |
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From Wilderness Vision
to Farm Invasions
Conservation amp; Development
in Zimbabwe's Southeast Lowveld
William Wolmer
Knowledge, Technology amp; Society Team
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
JAMES CURREY
OXFORD
WEAVER PRESS
HARARE
AFRICAN ACADEMIC PRESS
a Tsehai Publishers imprint
HOLLYWOOD, CA
Contents
List of Maps, Figures amp; Boxes viii
List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgements x
Part One Lowveld Landscapes
l
Landscapes of the imagination 1
The lowveld and its people 3
Landscape 6
The physical construction of'cultural landscapes' 7
Imagined landscapes 8
Landscape as a 'way of seeing' 8
Landscape as text 10
Soo'a/ constructionism and critical realism 11
Landscape and identity 12
Wilderness — a binary vision 12
Overview 15
The wilderness vision 20
Colonial perceptions of the lowveld landscape and its inhabitants
The landscape aesthetic - picturesque scenery and wilderness 22
A land of mystery, danger and scoundrels 24
Narratives on the Lost City 27
A land of adventure 29
Unfit for white habitation — except for pioneers 32
A new landscape aesthetic 35
Power over people 35
Celebrating wilderness 38
Wilderness threatened 40
Conclusions 41
Socialised, sacred and contested spaces 42
African landscapes in the lowveld
'Lived in' landscapes 43
Symbolic landscapes 48
Landscape and identity 48
Politicised landscapes 52
Sacred landscapes 56
Christian landscapes 64
Conclusions 66
CONTENTS
Part Two The Productive Landscape
Lowveld livelihoods 68
Tlie 'suitability' of dryland cropping in the landscape
Pre-/early colonial dryland agriculture 69
Other livelihood strategies 73
The colonial period: land alienation and its impact on African agriculture 78
in the lowveld
Agricultural extension in the lowveld during the colonial period 82
Narratives concerning the suitability of dryland agriculture in the lowveld 85
Dryland agriculture in practice today 88
Policies in practice 91
Conclusions 92
'Backwater to breadbasket' 93
Irrigated agriculture in the lowveld
The lowveld sugar story 94
Large-scale irrigation, Rhodesian identity and a new landscape aesthetic 97
Commercial irrigated agriculture post-Independence 103
Irrigation in the communal areas 105
The micro-politics of irrigated landscapes 112
Conclusions 114
Cattle country 116
Livestock management in the ranches and reserves
The ranches 117
Supporting narratives 120
The'reserves' 121
Cattle country and cattle people 126
Pasture science: veld management and destocking 126
The ranching model 129
Livestock diseases and landscape management 131
Livestock management in practice 137
Conclusions 141
Contents • vii
Part Three The Natural Landscape
Manufacturing wilderness
Wildlife conservation in the lowveld
Gonarezhou National Park
District Commissioner Allan Wright
African evictions
The tsetse challenge
Gonarezhou National park after Independence: Wars, drought
and political intrigue
Commercial wildlife management in the lowveld
The wildlife landscape
Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Conclusions
Part Four The Politics of Land(scape)
Reclaiming the wilderness?
Farm invasions in the lowveld
An overview of'the land question' post-Independence
Competing discourses concerning land
The land question in the lowveld
Farm invasions in the lowveld
Who were the invaders?
The dynamics of the farm invasions
Dryland agriculture and land
Water and land
Cattle and land
Wildlife and land
Conclusions
Bibliography
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