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  • Fast Track Land Occupations in Zimbabwe

    In the Context of the Zvimurenga

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state’s fast track land reform programme. In an innovative way, it highlights the decentralized character of the occupations by recognizing significant spatial variation around a number of key themes, including historical ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Everyday Crisis-Living in Contemporary Zimbabwe

    Series series Routledge Contemporary Africa
    This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe.Throughout the literature of Zimbabwean studies, a consideration of everyday lives has been limited to informal trading and rarely applied as an analytical framework, despite the importance of understanding crisis-living with reference to the specific character of national crises ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Livelihoods in Contemporary Zimbabwe

    Series series Routledge Studies on the Political Economy of Africa
    Since the introduction of the fast track land reform programme in 2000, Zimbabwe has undergone major economic and political shifts and these have had a profound impact on both urban and rural livelihoods. This book provides rich empirical studies that examine a range of multi-faceted and contested livelihoods within the context of systemic crises. Taking a broad political economy approach, the ... Read more

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