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Title: | Social Differentiation in the Communal Lands of Zimbabwe |
Authors: | Cousins, Ben Weiner, Dan Amin, Nick |
Year: | 1992 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 53 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 5-24 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | social structure social classes communal lands small farms Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249208703936 |
Abstract: | While Zimbabwe's smallholder production expansion is well documented, very little is known about social differentiation in the communal lands where most black smallholders live. This article draws on a growing body of postindependence survey data, as well as the authors' research and field experiences, to analyse the structure and dynamics of communal land social differentiation. Utilizing a framework which focuses on reproduction and accumulation, four primary social classes are identified: petty-commodity producers; worker-peasants; lumpen semipeasants; and the rural petty bourgeoisie. The authors then propose specific processes which may promote and/or constrain rural class formation and speculate about possible impacts on communal land agrarian politics in the 1990s. Class categories and associated processes are presented as hypotheses for further investigation and discussion, rather than as firm research conclusions. Bibliogr., notes. |