A detailed ethnographic and historical study of the implications of fast-track land reform in Zimbabwe from the perspective of those involved in land occupations around Lake Mutirikwi, from the colonial period to the present day.

Remaking Mutirikwi: An Introduction
PART ONE: Remaking Mutirikwi in the 2000s
New farmers, old claims
Graves, ruins & belonging
Rain, power & sovereignty
Hippos, fishing & irrigation
PART TWO: Damming Mutirikwi, 1940s-1990s
Genealogical geographies
New white futures, new Rhodesian settlers & large-scale irrigation, 1940s-1950s
Remaking Victorian landscapes, 1950s-1960s
War & danger in the wake of the dam, 1970s
Promised returns & frustrated futures in the wake of war, 1980s-1990s
Epilogue: Remaking Mutirikwi in the late 2000s and early 2010s

Joost Fontein is Professor of Anthropology, University of Johannesburg. He was previously Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging (James Currey, 2015), shortlisted for the African Studies Association 2016 Herskovits Prize.