• ISBN13: 9781847011121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Earth-Science/Environment
• Publisher: James Currey
• Publisher Imprint: James Currey
• Publication Date: June 18, 2015
• Pages: 365
• Original Price: GBP 115.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 750 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Natural Resources

Focuses on how claims and practices of belonging and autochthony articulate with practices of authority and power through the materialities of water and landscape. Deploying both anthropology and history, it examines how local contests provoked by land occupations around Lake Mutirikwi in the 2000s were animated by the entangled material and imaginative remnants of the past colonial and postcolonial regimes of rule through the form and substance of landscape.

Fontein, Joost: - Joost Fontein is Professor of Anthropology, University of Johannesburg. He was previously Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging (James Currey, 2015), shortlisted for the African Studies Association 2016 Herskovits Prize.