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Class and Race Complexities in Understanding Large-scale Land Deals as New Forms of Imperialism in Zimbabwe

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Class; Imperialism; Land; Race; Southern Africa; Zimbabwe

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The question of land in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa is fraught with conflict throughout the period of European colonization. This essay examines colonization in Zimbabwe from 1890 and its historical implications for the historic conflict over land with Zimbabwe’s Black majority population. Land imperialism has remained an enduring conflict from the imperial era, independence, and into the twentieth Century.

Introduction

Zimbabwe has a historical land question, dimensions of which are interesting as a way to understand neo-imperial processes in post-colonial Africa. In this essay, we trace the land question through various epochs, highlighting how the first encounter with colonisation in 1890 has led to the current land situation. Our analysis provides different ways of conceptualising land imperialism from the colonial to the post-colonial periods. In the post-colonial period, we highlight the...

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Zimbabwe and Research Associate, Harare, Zimbabwe

    Manase Kudzai Chiweshe

  2. Department of Sociology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

    Manase Kudzai Chiweshe

  3. Chinhoyi University of Technology, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe

    Patience Mutopo

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Chiweshe, M.K., Mutopo, P. (2020). Class and Race Complexities in Understanding Large-scale Land Deals as New Forms of Imperialism in Zimbabwe. In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_196-1

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