The Unsettled Land: State-making and the politics of land in Zimbabwe 1893-2003, by Jocelyn Alexander
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since 2000, the politics of land in Zimbabwe has taken on greater regional and international importance, particularly as mass-mediated representations of the widespread evictions of white farmers and their workforce grabbed the attention of politicians, diplomats, policy makers, and the public throughout the world. The resulting increased interest in the politics of land in Zimbabwe and southern Africa more broadly has reinvigorated policy discussions concerning the redress of racially skewed land ownership inherited by post-colonial nations from their colonial predecessors and addressing rural, if not national development. Jocelyn Alexander's The Unsettled Land is a must-read for those involved in such discussions as well as those interested in African history and state formation more broadly, as it richly and astutely situates the current politics of land in Zimbabwe within the more relevant context of the making, unmaking, and contestation of state and other forms of authority in rural Zimbabwe. By grounding the unfolding land conflicts in this deeper politics, she raises very relevant points for anyone interested or involved in rural development issues in southern Africa and elsewhere.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".