Natural Resource-Based Conflicts in Rural Zimbabwe

Joshua Matanzima is a researcher at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (Sustainable Minerals Institute), University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He holds a PhD in anthropology from La Trobe University, Australia. His research interests include natural resources conflicts between indigenous people, governments, and extractive companies; social aspects of mining and energy transitions; and social, environmental, and governance risks and impacts of large-scale infrastructure development and conservation projects. He has carried out extensive fieldwork on these topics in the Middle-Zambezi Valley. Patience Chadambuka is a researcher, lecturer and acting chairperson at the Department of Community Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. She holds a PhD in sociology from Rhodes University, South Africa. She researches and writes on land, livelihoods, ethnicity and gender. She has also been awarded international research grants on climate change and disability studies. Kirk Helliker is Emeritus Research Professor at the Department of Sociology, Rhodes University, South Africa, where he heads the Unit of Zimbabwean Studies, which he founded. The Unit was formed in 2015 and seeks to contribute to the development of emerging, early-career, and mid-career Zimbabwean (and other) scholars. He publishes widely on Zimbabwean history, politics, and society and has supervised a significant number of PhD and MA students.

1: Natural Resource-Based Conflicts in Zimbabwe PART A: Land, Natural Resources and Conflict 2: Domestic Communal Land Grabbing and Dwindling Peri-Urban Spaces: The Case of Midlands District’s Mataga Communal Areas 3: Natural Resource Conflicts in Western Zimbabwe 4: Othering Doma Foragers: Contestations Over Natural Resources in the Mid-Zambezi Valley 5: Women’s Land Access and Gendered Land Conflicts in Hwedza and Makoni Districts 6: Resource Conflicts in Chiredzi District: The Case of the Minority Hlengwe against Settlers and the State, 1950s-2022 Part B: Water and Conflict 7: Water as a Site of Contestation at Lake Kariba 8: Conflicts over River Sand Use and Management in Binga District 9: Conflict over Land and Water Resources in Zimunya, Manicaland Province 10: Whose Water is it? Underground Water and Social Conflicts in Fuleche, Hurungwe District, c1958-2020 11: Governance, Power Dynamics and Conflicts in Norton’s Small-Scale Fisheries 12: Conflicts over Natural Resources at Mutirikwi Dam in Masvingo Province PART C: Minerals and Conflict Chapter 13: Farmer-Miner Conflicts in Mberengwa North, 2000-2020 14: Mining-Induced Displacement and Resource Conflicts in Chiadzwa 15: Farming-Mining Conflicts surrounding Land Use on A1 Farms in Shurugwi District 16: Conflicts over Harnessing of Diamond Resources in Marange Communal Area, Eastern Zimbabwe, 2006 - 2015