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Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War

Autor Dr Obert Bernard Mlambo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2024
In this highly original book, Obert Bernard Mlambo offers a comparative and critical examination of the relationship between military veterans and land expropriation in the client-army of the first-century BC Roman Republic and veterans of the Zimbabwean liberation war. The study centres on the body of the soldier, the cultural production of images and representations of gender which advance theoretical discussions around war, masculinity and violence. Mlambo employs a transcultural comparative approach based on a persistent factor found in both societies: land expropriation. Often articulated in a framework of patriarchy, land appropriation takes place in the context of war-shaped masculinities.This book fosters a deeper understanding of social processes, adding an important new perspective to the study of military violence, and paying attention to veterans' claims for rewards and compensation. These claims are developed in the context of war and its direct consequences, namely expropriation, confiscation and violence. Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe contributes to current efforts to decolonise knowledge construction by revealing that a non-Western perspective can broaden our understanding of veterans, war, violence, land and gender in classical culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350291898
ISBN-10: 1350291897
Pagini: 266
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Offers a transcultural comparative approach covering classics, anthropology, comparative history, classical reception studies and Black classicism

Notă biografică

Obert Bernard Mlambo is Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History at the University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe. His research interests involve Roman History, Classics and Colonialism, Postcolonial Classics in Africa, and the issues of Violence, Gender, Politics, and Land in ancient Rome and Zimbabwe. Obert Mlambo also researches and teaches Roman history in a global context. He is a former Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of African Studies and Egyptology, University of Cologne, Germany, and a Guest Scholar at the Global South Studies Centre of the University of Cologne, Germany.

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsForeword by David Konstan (New York University, USA)AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Ancient Rome and Africa: Background and Differences 2. Land Ownership, Masculinity and War3. Warfare-Madness, Violence and Expropriation4. Veterans and the Prize of Valour: Masculinity and the Homosocial Strategy5. Veterans, Masculinity and the Politics of the Body6. Veterans and 'Spatial Masculinities'7. Concluding RemarksNotes BibliographyIndex

Recenzii

It is studies like this present book that provide the path forward to more groundbreaking research in the field of military history of all societies and periods.
Well founded on theory and extremely persuasive ... This book is worth reading.
This remarkable and novel study highlights the potential for illuminating comparison between Roman and African historical experiences. Mlambo analyses personal testimonies by veterans about their involvement and emotions in the expropriation of land in modern Zimbabwe, which he uses, alongside the ancient clues, to inspire a vivid recreation of Roman veterans as active agents in the land expropriations of the late Republic.
The striking resemblances between decommissioned legionaries in ancient Rome and African veteran guerrilla fighters in present-day Zimbabwe are mutually enlightening. Moving beyond a narrow consideration of a single region or epoch towards an exploration of parallels and contrasts, this book recalibrates the Eurocentric habit of taking classical antiquity as the unique key for understanding social and political life. Mlambo brings African and European perspectives into a fresh dialogue with one another in empirically well-grounded and unexpected ways.
A diligent intervention on land expropriation, veterans, masculinity and war in ancient Rome and contemporary Zimbabwe, this magnificent book yokes together two disparate societies separated by 2,000 years and allows them to shine their light on each other in ways that enrich our understanding of history and the limitless possibilities of engaging it.