LEADER 04864nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910953358403321 005 20240418050219.0 010 $a9780295800516 010 $a0295800518 024 7 $a10.1515/9780295800516 035 $a(CKB)2550000000041949 035 $a(EBL)3444298 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000522744 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11333372 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522744 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528874 035 $a(PQKB)11742339 035 $a(OCoLC)748551785 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21242 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444298 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468614 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL810570 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444298 035 $a(DE-B1597)725947 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780295800516 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000041949 100 $a20050924d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom enslavement to environmentalism $epolitics on a Southern African frontier /$fDavid McDermott Hughes 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aSeattle $cUniversity of Washington Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (310 p.) 225 1 $aCulture, place, and nature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780295985909 311 08$a0295985909 311 08$a9780295988405 311 08$a0295988401 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-271) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : power on African frontiers -- Colonization, failed and successful -- Compulsory labor and unclaimed land in Gogoi, Mozambique, 1862-1992 -- From clientship to land-grabbing in Vhimba, Zimbabwe, 1893-1990 -- The border -- Refugees, squatters, and the politics of land allocation in Vhimba -- Community forestry as land-grabbing in Vhimba -- Expatriate loggers and mapmakers in Gogoi -- Native questions -- Open native reserves or none? -- In conclusion, three liberal projects reassessed. 330 $aFrom Enslavement to Environmentalism takes a challenging ethnographic and historical look at the politics of eco-development in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border zone. David Hughes argues that European colonization in southern Africa--essentially an unsuccessful effort to turn the region into another North America or Australia--has profoundly reshaped rural politics and culture and continues to do so, as neoliberal developers commoditize the lands of African peasants in the name of conservation and economic progress.Hughes builds his engaging analysis around a sort of natural experiment: in the past, whites colonized British Zimbabwe but avoided Portuguese Mozambique almost entirely. In Zimbabwe, chiefdoms that had historically focused on controlling people began to follow the English example of consolidating political power by dividing and controlling land. Meanwhile, in Mozambique, Portugal perpetuated traditional practices of recruiting and distributing forced labor as the primary means of securing power. The territory remained unmapped. For almost the entire twentieth century, a sharp disjuncture in the politics of land, leadership, labor, and resource use marked the border zone.In the late 1990s, as white South Africans began to establish timber plantations in Mozambique, that difference began to be effaced. Under the banner of environmentalism and economic progress, tourism firms were allowed to claim peasant farmland. The objectives of liberal conservationists and developers, though high-minded, led them to commoditize ancestral lands. Southern African policymakers supported this new form of colonization as a form of racial integration between white investors and black peasants, paving the way for an ironic and contentious situation in which ethnic tolerance, gentrification, and land-grabbing have gone hand in hand.From Enslavement to Environmentalism engages topics central to current debates in anthropology, resource politics, and development policy, and will be of interest to both regional specialists and generalists. 410 0$aCulture, place, and nature. 606 $aLand use$zZimbabwe$zVhimba$xHistory 606 $aLand tenure$zZimbabwe$zVhimba$xHistory 606 $aLand use$zMozambique$zGogo?i$xHistory 606 $aLand tenure$zMozambique$zGogo?i$xHistory 607 $aVhimba (Zimbabwe)$xColonization 607 $aGogo?i (Mozambique)$xColonization 615 0$aLand use$xHistory. 615 0$aLand tenure$xHistory. 615 0$aLand use$xHistory. 615 0$aLand tenure$xHistory. 676 $a333.3/096891 700 $aHughes$b David McDermott$0904310 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953358403321 996 $aFrom enslavement to environmentalism$94345424 997 $aUNINA