“Settlers” and Zimbabwe: Politics, Memory, and the Anthropology of Commercial Farms During a Time of Crisis

Rutherford, Blair

doi:10.1080/10702890490883858

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“…These positive political signs were in sharp contrast to the tumultuous political conditions in the migrants' home nation of Zimbabwe (Rutherford, 2004).…”

Section: Banking Reform Enablesmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…The elections in 2003 ushered the President Obasanjo administration in the second term and were largely hailed by international agencies as being relatively transparent (Lubeck et al, 2007). These positive political signs were in sharp contrast to the tumultuous political conditions in Zimbabwe, the home nation of migrants (Rutherford, 2004). Thus, the Shonga Farms project coincided with the second administration of Obasanjo (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007) who embarked on an economic reform programme.…”

Section: Evolution In the Environment Affects The Ownership Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

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New venture evolution of migrants under institutional voids: Lessons from Shonga Farms in Nigeria

Mickiewicz

Olarewaju

2020

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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This article inductively builds theory on how transaction costs may be alleviated and institutional voids bridged in developing economies, based on the case study of successful migrant entrepreneurial involvement in Nigerian agriculture: Shonga Farms. We argue that the iterative process of building conditions of trust through long-term commitment, involvement of regional government, appropriate modes of financial contracts and the gradual transitioning of controlling interests to private actors are factors of success. We draw additional lessons by contrasting our case study with other similar migrant schemes that have failed.

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“…These positive political signs were in sharp contrast to the tumultuous political conditions in the migrants' home nation of Zimbabwe (Rutherford, 2004).…”

Section: Banking Reform Enablesmentioning

confidence: 73%

Section: Evolution In the Environment Affects The Ownership Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

New venture evolution of migrants under institutional voids: Lessons from Shonga Farms in Nigeria

Mickiewicz

Olarewaju

2020

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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“…As I have discussed elsewhere (Rutherford ), these NGO programmes were interlaced with not only the hierarchical power relations of domestic government and shaped by the arbitrary and often harsh working conditions, but were also influenced by various social dynamics concerning gender, generation, youth, race and appraisals of moral worthiness. Moreover, their consequences varied widely, depending on a host of factors, including the particular social projects towards which different participants (farmworkers and farmers) put them.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, their consequences varied widely, depending on a host of factors, including the particular social projects towards which different participants (farmworkers and farmers) put them. The growth of NGO projects was definitely part and parcel of neo‐liberal governmentality practices found throughout Africa and elsewhere in the 1990s, but their consequences varied as these NGO activities ‘articulated with other practices and demands involving some farmworkers and farmers – neither in a transformative way nor in a singularly hegemonic manner’ (Rutherford , 145).…”

Section: Agrarian Labour In Zimbabwementioning

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Organization and (De)mobilization of Farmworkers in Zimbabwe: Reflections on Trade Unions, NGOs and Political Parties

Rutherford

2014

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This paper examines the 'labour question' in light of the wider agrarian questions, with a focus on the ways to understand activities of trade unions, NGOs and political parties as key actors in seeking to mobilize farmworkers. Drawing on research on farmworkers in Zimbabwe and engaging with literature concerning farm labour in the drastic changes to large-scale agriculture in this country since 2000, the paper emphasizes the importance of examining the wider terrain of politics that influences the actions and abilities of extrafarm organizations to operate with farmworkers. Through critically engaging with the wider literature concerning the political economy of farm labour, the paper proposes the importance of attending to what it calls the 'cultural politics of belonging', which strongly shapes both the forms of attachment of farmworkers and farm dwellers to the farms and the strategies of mobilization and demobilization taken by these organizations. Through attending to such relationships and the wider terrain of politics, this paper proposes an alternative analysis to those currently found in the polarized literature on farmworkers and the Fast Track Land Redistribution Programme in Zimbabwe.

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“…Of fundamental importance in this regard is the extent to which white farmers express racist, essentialist viewpoints about Africans. As Rutherford (2004) found during his research in Zimbabwe, it was common for white farmers to claim to understand the essence of their African ‘other’. A lengthy but fairly typical example is provided in the following quote about African farming practices:…”

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White Farmers’ Dealings With Land Reform in South Africa: Evidence From Northern Limpopo Province

Fraser¹

2008

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Abstract:Completing restitution, a key element of South Africa's land reform programme, entails government acquisition of white-owned farms. Some white farmers are willing to sell and consequently the government has paid them full market-related compensation. Others, however, refuse to sell, a right they have under the terms of the willing-seller, willing-buyer principle to which the government has committed itself. Why white farmers refuse to sell, even when compensation is on offer, is poorly understood. This paper therefore draws on qualitative research concerning white farmers in the Levubu area of northern Limpopo province to fill this gap in knowledge. The paper asks why white farmers were refusing to sell land to make way for restitution. It interrogates the material and symbolic factors affecting farmers' action and demonstrates that the respondents' justified their stance in relation to shifts in power in the agricultural sector, developments in land reform practice, and the respondents' strong emotional bond to the land. In so doing, the paper calls into question the underlying (materialist) logic of the government's mode of land acquisition.

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“Settlers” and Zimbabwe: Politics, Memory, and the Anthropology of Commercial Farms During a Time of Crisis

Cited by 26 publications

References 20 publications

New venture evolution of migrants under institutional voids: Lessons from Shonga Farms in Nigeria

New venture evolution of migrants under institutional voids: Lessons from Shonga Farms in Nigeria

Organization and (De)mobilization of Farmworkers in Zimbabwe: Reflections on Trade Unions, NGOs and Political Parties

White Farmers’ Dealings With Land Reform in South Africa: Evidence From Northern Limpopo Province

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