The Unbearable Whiteness of Being. Farmers' Voices from Zimbabwe

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
List of Tables and Map
List of Appendices
A Note on Currency
Foreword
Introduction - Why the Voices of White Farmers?
1. White Farmers & their Representatives in Zimbabwe, 1890–2000
	Introduction
	1890–1953: From Conquest to Federation
	1953–1980: From Federation to Independence
	1980–2000: From Independence to Jambanja
	Conclusion
	Notes
2. No Country for White Men. White Farmers, the Fast-Track Land Reforms and Jambanja, 2000–2004
	Introduction
	2000–2004: Jambanja
	Conclusion
	Notes
3. Discourses of Apoliticism in The Farmer
	Introduction
	Contextualising The Farmer & Media in Zimbabwe
	Apoliticism & Affirmative Parochialism
	The History, Content & Production of The Farmer
	The Editors
	Conclusion
	Notes
4. Discursive Thresholds & Episodes of Crisis. The Liberation War, Gukurahundi & the Land Occupations
	Introduction
	The Discursive Threshold
	The Liberation War, Gukurahundi & the Shifting Discourses of Violence and Victimhood
	2000 & After: State-Sponsored Violence & the Reformed Victimhood of White Farmers
	Conclusion
	Notes
5. The Consolidation of Voice. White Farmers’ Autobiographies & the Narration of Experience after 2000
	Introduction
	Discourse & Myth
	The Importance of Literature & Autobiography
	Writing Traditions & Authorial Intentions
	Myths & Themes
	Audience
	Conclusion
	Notes
6. Orphans of Empire’. Oral Expressions of Displacement & Trauma
	Introduction
	The Justice for Agriculture (JAG) Interviews
	The Oral Account
	The Trauma of Eviction
	The Re-emergence of Past Discourse
	‘I paid my houts everything’: Labour Relations on White Farms
	Remaining Apolitical in a Political Crisis
	Conclusion
	Notes
Appendix 1. CFU structure & list of past presidents
Appendix 2. Land use on large-scale commercial farms & area under cultivation in hectares, 1970–1999
Appendix 3. Summary of major crop1 sales in $Z millions, 1970–1999
Appendix 4. The number of large-scale commercial farms & the total area occupied in hectares, 1970–1999
Appendix 5. White farmers killed between 1964–79, 1981–87 and 2000–04
Appendix 6. Date of purchase on the title deeds of farming properties listed in the 1997 acquisition list
Appendix 7. Biographical data on white farmers interviewed
Bibliography
Index
Epigraph
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