TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolmer,William
TI  - From wilderness vision to farm invasions: conservation and development in Zimbabwe's Southeast Lowveld
SN  - 9781599070179 (Tsehai Publishers)
AV  - HD992 WOL 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - James Currey
KW  - Land use, rural
KW  - Zimbabwe
KW  - Rural development
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -