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This book examines the impact government policy has had on agrarian change in Zimbabwe’s peasant farming areas over the course of this century. My intention is to find a means of linking an analysis of past and present change with a practical interest in the future. Since such a task accords with the telos of critical theory, that of Jürgen Habermas has been used to inform the theory and method used in this study.1
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World Bank (1989) World Development Report 1989.
in R. L. Harris, ‘Marxism and the agrarian question in Latin America’, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 4 (1978) p. 4.
Hyden (1983) defines the ‘economy of affection’ as denoting ‘a network of support, communications and interaction among structurally defined groups connected by blood, kin, community or other affinities, for example, religion’ (p. 8).
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Drinkwater, M. (1991). Introduction: The Past, Present and Future in Zimbabwe’s Communal Areas. In: The State and Agrarian Change in Zimbabwe’s Communal Areas. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11780-2_1
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