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This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state’s fast track land reform programme. In an innovative way, it highlights the decentralized character of the occupations by recognizing significant spatial variation around a number of key themes, including historical memory, modes of mobilization and gender. A case study of the land occupations in Mashonaland Central Province, based on original research, adds empirical weight to the argument. In further identifying and understanding the specificities and complexities of the land occupations, the book also frames them by way of a nuanced comparative-historical analysis of the three zvimurenga. It thus examines the land occupations (referred to, likely controversially, as the ‘third chimurenga’) with reference to the original anti-colonial revolt from the 1890s (the first chimurenga) and the war of liberation in the 1970s (the second chimurenga). Further, the book engages critically with the ruling party’s chimurenga narrative and the hegemonic understanding of the land occupations within Zimbabwean studies. This book is a crucial read for all scholars and students of post-2000 land and politics in Zimbabwe, but also for those more broadly interested in historical-comparative analyses of land struggles in Zimbabwe and beyond. .

Geography. --- Africa—Politics and government. --- Identity politics. --- International relations. --- Social policy. --- Welfare state. --- Geography, general. --- African Politics. --- Politics and Gender. --- International Relations. --- Social Policy. --- Politics of the Welfare State. --- State, Welfare --- Economic policy --- Public welfare --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- National planning --- State planning --- Family policy --- Social history --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Identity (Psychology) --- Politics of identity --- Political participation --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Political aspects --- Land tenure --- Government policy --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Africa --- Peace. --- Regional Geography. --- Peace and Conflict Studies. --- Politics and government. --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International

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Cover -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction: theorising the political economy of livelihoods in contemporary Zimbabwe -- 2 Livelihood strategies of urban women: emerging evidence from Magaba, Harare -- 3 Livelihood strategies in Harare: the case of low-income households in Budiriro -- 4 Sex work as a livelihood strategy in the border town of Beitbridge -- 5 Migration-based livelihoods in post-2000 Zimbabwe -- 6 Agricultural production systems of small-scale farmers in Hwedza in the context of innovation platforms -- 7 Development NGOs: understanding participatory methods, accountability and effectiveness of World Vision in Umzingwane District -- 8 A critical analysis of community participation at the primary level of the health system in Goromonzi District -- 9 Climate variability in local scales: narratives and ambivalences from Mutoko District -- 10 Livelihoods vulnerability among riverbed farmers in Negande, NyamiNyami District -- 11 "Let them starve so that they 'hear' us": differing perspectives on unresolved land occupations and livelihoods at Mushandike smallholder irrigation scheme, Masvingo District -- 12 "Other people inherit property, but I inherit people and their problems": the role of kinship and social capital in providing care and support for the HIV infected and AIDS affected, Chivanhu informal settlement, Masvingo Province -- 13 Insecure land tenure and natural resource use in a post-fast track area of Zimbabwe -- 14 Fast track land reform programme and women in Goromonzi District -- Index.

Income --- Households --- Land tenure --- Economic aspects --- Fast Track Land Reform Programme (Zimbabwe) --- Zimbabwe --- Economic conditions --- Rural conditions.