From wilderness vision to farm invasions :
Wolmer, William
From wilderness vision to farm invasions : conservation and development in Zimbabwe's Southeast Lowveld William Wolmer - Oxford James Currey ©2007 Avondale, Harare Weaver Press ©2007 Hollywood, CA African Academic Press, a Tsehai Publishers imprint ©2007 - 246 pages.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conservation and development programmes in Zimbabwe's south-east 'lowveld' have been rooted in the conceptualisation of this landscape as wilderness. The uses, perceptions and experiences of this landscape by African people have been ignored in policies derived from the 'wilderness vision'. Land reform has failed to take account of the way the landscape is bound up with identity through its embodiment of ancestral spirits and function as a repository of social memories. The turbulent dynamics around farm invasions in Zimbabwe may open space for previously silenced constructions of landscape to influence policy.
9781599070179 (Tsehai Publishers) 9781779220455 (Weaver Press) 9780852554364 (James Currey)
Land use, rural--Zimbabwe
Rural development--Zimbabwe
HD992 WOL
From wilderness vision to farm invasions : conservation and development in Zimbabwe's Southeast Lowveld William Wolmer - Oxford James Currey ©2007 Avondale, Harare Weaver Press ©2007 Hollywood, CA African Academic Press, a Tsehai Publishers imprint ©2007 - 246 pages.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conservation and development programmes in Zimbabwe's south-east 'lowveld' have been rooted in the conceptualisation of this landscape as wilderness. The uses, perceptions and experiences of this landscape by African people have been ignored in policies derived from the 'wilderness vision'. Land reform has failed to take account of the way the landscape is bound up with identity through its embodiment of ancestral spirits and function as a repository of social memories. The turbulent dynamics around farm invasions in Zimbabwe may open space for previously silenced constructions of landscape to influence policy.
9781599070179 (Tsehai Publishers) 9781779220455 (Weaver Press) 9780852554364 (James Currey)
Land use, rural--Zimbabwe
Rural development--Zimbabwe
HD992 WOL