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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Art of Belonging
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The Zambezi
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The Farms
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"Hughes ingeniously and persuasively weaves together ethnography, environmentalism, and aesthetics. His eloquent study of the white settler fetish for scenery has broad interdisciplinary ramifications for the future of race studies. At the same time, Hughes' book creates a major bridgehead between the environmental social sciences and the environmental humanities." - Rob Nixon, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin and author of Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy
"It took a book this engaging to show us how linked the categories of race and space are. The entitlements and embodiments of white settlement shaped the history and hydrology of agriculture and development in Zimbabwe. In the end, Hughes tells us, the farms and fictions hewn from an imaginary wilderness were no more natural than the politics of exclusion that dominated twentieth and now twenty-first century Zimbabwe." - Luise White, Professor of History, University of Florida and author of The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe
"Whiteness in Zimbabwe is a powerful analysis of how, as the author puts it, 'environmental conservation and white identity have produced and shaped each other.' Through a careful and convincing analysis of both agricultural practices and forms of representation such as literature and photography, it lays bare the way that white settlers' romance with nature and landscape has been both a way of claiming mastery and belonging in an alien land, and a way of avoiding meaningful engagement with the majority black population. With implications that go far beyond Africa (not least, to the 'neo-Europes' of North America and Australia), this book is a major intervention into the vigorous current global debates on the politics of conservation." - James Ferguson, Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University and author of Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Whiteness in Zimbabwe
Book Subtitle: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging
Authors: David McDermott Hughes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106338
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: David McDermott Hughes 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62142-8Published: 14 May 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62143-5Published: 14 May 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10633-8Published: 12 April 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 204
Topics: African Culture, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), African History, African Politics, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology