From jambanja to planning
The reassertion of technocracy in land reform in south-eastern Zimbabwe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4253333 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Chaumba (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies), I Scoones (0000-0001-8547-4464, Institute of Development Studies), William Wolmer (Institute of Development Studies) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 533-554 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x03004397 |
| OpenAlex | W2139996649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 73 |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper examines the land occupations and fast-track resettlement process in Chiredzi district in Zimbabwe's southeast lowveld, and argues that their broad-brush representation as chaotic, violent and unplanned is misleading. In Zimbabwe the instruments and mechanisms of order assert themselves even in the midst of violent disorder. The on-going deployment of the formal and technical tools and discourses of land-use planning have been instrumental in securing the visibility and legitimacy of Zimbabwe's new settlers. The speed and short cuts of the fast-track land reform process and vagueness of policies to date have in the short term opened up a certain amount of space for negotiation and a degree of leeway and flexibility in land-use planning and allocation. But the danger for the settlers is that, by deploying a discourse rooted in long-held and institutionally embedded Rhodesian traditions of planning and control, they have played into a process that - as so often in Zimbabwe's history - will re-impose coercive land-use regulations that are at odds with their livelihood strategies and seek to vet settlers and so undermine populist claims of redressing inequalities and providing land to the landless and poor
Communal land · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Land reform · Land tenure · Land use · Land-use planning · Legitimacy · Livelihood · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Technocracy · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Land Rights and Reforms · Law
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| Unique citing works | 73 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,17 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |