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- Title
Rereading the Zimbabwean "Land Question": Gender and the Symbolic Meanings of "Land".
- Authors
Mawere, Tinashe
- Abstract
As the source of all food production, land in southern Africa has been highly contested. Using a variety of texts that express themes relating to land, I show that in Zimbabwe, in the face of massive political competition, land became the foundation for reform and national sovereignty in dominant nationalist, patriarchal and gendered discourses. I demonstrate that cultural texts centred on land have been embodied and generated in familial troupes, revealing dominant gendered and sexualised overtones that naturalise land ownership and particular land uses. At the same time, these texts reveal symbolic violence meted out on particular bodies. This discursive analysis of texts examines the gendered and sexualised discourses associated with Zimbabwe's national reforms and security, where the imagining of the security, protection and sanctity of land has been driven by nationalist ideas about its centrality in the healthy (re)production of obedient social and national subjects.
- Subjects
ZIMBABWE; LAND tenure; GENDER; POLITICAL competition; CULTURAL centers; SOVEREIGNTY
- Publication
Gender Questions, 2022, Vol 10, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2309-9704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25159/2412-8457/7411