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Book Reviews

Land and politics in Southern Africa, 2015–2017: a historiography of re-ordered landscapes and livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s crisis economy

Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe, by Joost Fontein, Suffolk, James Currey, 2015, 340 pp., £45 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-84701-112-1White Narratives: The Depiction of Post-2000 Land Invasions in Zimbabwe, by Irikidzai Manase, Johannesburg, UNISA Press, 2016, £22 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-86888-825-2Ordered Estates: Welfare, Power and Maternalism on Zimbabwe’s (Once White) Highveld, by Andrew M. C. Hartnack, Harare, Weaver Press, 2016, 283 pp., R730 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-77922-291-6Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms: The Roots of Impermanence, by Maxim Bolt, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, 246 pp., £53 (hardbook), ISBN 978-1-107-11122-6Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics, by Blair Rutherford, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2017, 277 pp., $35 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-253-02407-7

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