The negotiability of state legal and bureaucratic authority during land occupations in Zimbabwe

Arnold Chamunogwa

Review of African Political Economy, 2019, vol. 46, issue 159, 71-85

Abstract: The article explains how state legal and bureaucratic authority over land access was renegotiated, and at times undone, during land occupations in Mazowe District, Zimbabwe from 2001 to 2002. It explains the logics and strategies used by land occupiers to make use of legal and bureaucratic procedures, in contradictory ways, as they made, protected and validated claims to land and related resources. It also explains the ambiguous role of local state institutions during farm occupations. The author illustrates how certain state institutions adhered to long-standing technocratic ideas and practices of controlling land access, while others undermined and, at times, subverted them.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2019.1609921

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