This book provides the first attempt to synthesise what is a pervasive phenomenon, and one that is mentioned tangentially in many political analyses, but nowhere receives the systematic and theoretical treatment that its significance to the working of 'democratic' political practice deserves. It will thus be a volume that should interest a range of scholars in government and political theory, in comparative politics and communications.

This volume will be an essential starting place for analysts, policy-makers, historians and activists seeking to understand what has happened with regards to the struggle over land in Zimbabwe since 2000 and to spotlight the key issues for the next decade.