I am a paramount chief, this land belongs to my ancestors’
The reconfiguration of rural authority after Zimbabwe's land reforms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11904422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grasian Mkodzongi (0000-0001-8554-416X, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | sup1 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056244.2015.1085376 |
| OpenAlex | W2189647960 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article explores the reconfiguration of rural authority in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform Programme, particularly the way the programme has allowed local chiefs to deploy ancestral autochthony as a way of contesting state hegemony over the countryside. It argues that chiefs cannot simply be viewed as undemocratic remnants of colonial rule; instead, a nuanced understanding of their role in rural governance is required
Colonialism · Control reconfiguration · Corporate governance · Economics · Geography · Hegemony · Land reform · Local governance · Local government · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rural area · Sociology · State (computer science · Traditional authority · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Land Rights and Reforms · Law · Public Administration
Performative citizenship and the politics of scale
Configuring political relationships to navigate host-country institutional complexity
Land reform, citizenship and aliens in Zimbabwe
The fast-track land reform programme in Zimbabwe
Artisanal Gold Mining and Farming
Negotiating inclusion by exclusion, or how to secure “eating” from farmland investments in Tanzania
The Politics of Extractivism and Resistance in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Agrarian transformation and artisanal and small-scale chrome mining on Zimbabwe's Great Dyke geological formation
Ruth First Prize
The rise of ‘Mashurugwi’ machete gangs and violent conflicts in Zimbabwe's artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector
Traditional leaders and the politics of labour recruitment in Zimbabwe’s platinum mining industry
Vulnerabilities, power, and gendered violence in food systems
Contested histories and contested land claims
Battle for legitimacy
Geographies of terror, harvest of fear
Belonging and Agrarian Labour Exchanges in Zimbabwe
Changing Relations Between Chiefs and 'Subjects' in Zimbabwe and Botswana
Reflections on Chiefs as Ex Officio Members of the Land Boards, Botswana
Two sides of the stream
The Land Belongs to Us
New land, old claims and the politics of belonging during a changing agrarian situation in central Zimbabwe
Inside an enclave
Africa works
Guns and rain
Peasant consciousness and guerrilla war in Zimbabwe.
Reclaiming the Land
The Radicalised State
How to combine tradition and modernity? Regulating customary land management in Ghana
Democratisation and control
Everyday forms of peasant resistance
On the limits of liberal peace
Class and the customary
From jambanja to planning
The Moral Economy of the State
Property, Authority and Citizenship
Citizen and Subject
Land, graves and belonging
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |