From Wilderness Vision to Farm Invasions: Conservation & Development in Zimbabwe's South-east LowveldJames Currey, 2007 - 246 pages Conservation and development programmes in Zimbabwe's south-east 'lowveld' have been rooted in the conceptualisation of this landscape as wilderness. The uses, perceptions and experiences of this landscape by African people have been ignored in policies derived from the 'wilderness vision'. Land reform has failed to take account of the way the landscape is bound up with identity through its embodiment of ancestral spirits and function as a repository of social memories. The turbulent dynamics around farm invasions in Zimbabwe may open space for previously silenced constructions of landscape to influence policy. North America: Tsehai/African Academic; Zimbabwe: WeaverBR> |
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Wilderness | 12 |
Colonial perceptions of the lowveld landscape and its inhabitants | 20 |
Narratives on the Lost City | 27 |
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Bannerman 1980 cattle Chapter Chibi Chikombedzi Chiredzi Chiredzi District colonial commercial farms commercial ranches communal areas contested crops cultural discourse DNPWLM drought dryland agriculture ecological economic environment environmental European farm invasions farmers fence game ranches game reserve Gonarezhou National Park grazing land Harare Hippo Valley Hlengwe hunting Interview irrigation schemes Jacob Mahenehene labour land alienation land reform large-scale Limpopo Limpopo Transfrontier Park livelihood strategies livestock management lowveld landscape Malilangwe Trust Masvingo Province Mozambique Mwenezi Native Commissioner NC Annual Report Ndanga Ndau Ndebele Nguni Nuanetsi particularly perceptions poaching political population potential production programme protected areas ranchers Ranger resettlement River Salzgitter Scoones sector Sengwe communal area settlers Shangaan Shona smallholder social South Africa south-east lowveld Southern African Southern Rhodesia space tion tourism Triangle tsetse fly University of Zimbabwe veld veterinary wild wilderness vision wildlife Wolmer Wright ZANU(PF Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's Zimbabwean zone