Rereading the Zimbabwean “land question” : gender and the symbolic meanings of “land”

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dc.contributor.author Mawere, Tinashe
dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-31T12:11:13Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.description.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. en_US
dc.description.department Historical and Heritage Studies en_US
dc.description.department Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender (CSA&G)
dc.description.embargo 2023-09-01
dc.description.librarian am2023 en_US
dc.description.uri https://upjournals.co.za/index.php/GQ en_US
dc.identifier.citation Mawere, T. 2022, 'Rereading the Zimbabwean “land question” : gender and the symbolic meanings of “land”', Gender Questions, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-18, doi : 10.25159/2412-8457/7411. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2309-9704 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2412-8457 (online)
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91716
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Unisa Press en_US
dc.rights © Unisa Press 2022. en_US
dc.subject Femininity en_US
dc.subject Gender en_US
dc.subject Land en_US
dc.subject Masculinity en_US
dc.subject Nation en_US
dc.subject (Re)production en_US
dc.subject SDG-05: Gender equality en_US
dc.title Rereading the Zimbabwean “land question” : gender and the symbolic meanings of “land” en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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