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Focuses on how claims and practices of belonging and autochthony articulate with practices of authority and power through the materialities of water and landscape. Deploying both anthropology and history, it examines how local contests provoked by land occupations around Lake Mutirikwi in the 2000s were animated by the entangled material and imaginative remnants of the past colonial and postcolonial regimes of rule through the form and substance of landscape.
Sommario
Remaking Mutirikwi: An Introduction
PART ONE: Remaking Mutirikwi in the 2000s
New farmers, old claims
Graves, ruins & belonging
Rain, power & sovereignty
Hippos, fishing & irrigation
Genealogical geographies
PART TWO: Damming Mutirikwi, 1940s-1990s
New white futures, new Rhodesian settlers & large-scale irrigation, 1940s-1950s
Remaking Victorian landscapes, 1950s-1960s
War & danger in the wake of the dam, 1970s
Promised returns & frustrated futures in the wake of war, 1980s-1990s
Epilogue: Remaking Mutirikwi in the late 2000s and early 2010s
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Joost Fontein is Professor of Anthropology, University of Johannesburg. He was previously Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. His books include
Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging (James Currey, 2015), shortlisted for the African Studies Association 2016 Herskovits Prize.
