ABSTRACT

This article considers how the colonial British government’s appropriation of the Kariba Dam historically excluded the BaTonga people from accessing the dam’s resources. Dispossession and appropriation of the Kariba Dam resulted in the impoverishment of the BaTonga of north-western Zimbabwe. In this study, impoverishment of the BaTonga is understood in relation to their failure to adequately reach Thayer ‘Ted’ Scudder’s stages 3 and 4 of the Four Stages Framework (FSF) of successful resettlement. The article argues that when people are denied access to reservoirs and their resources for both religious and socioeconomic reasons, they hardly pass through the four stages adequately. The article is based on ethnographic research and extensive document analysis conducted among the BaTonga between April and October 2017.

摘要

本文考虑了殖民时期英国政府对卡里巴大坝的拨款如何在历史上将巴东加人排除在大坝资源之外。卡里巴大坝的剥夺和占用导致津巴布韦西北部的巴汤加人陷入贫困。在这项研究中，BaTonga 的贫困被理解为他们未能充分达到 Thayer 'Ted' Scudder 成功重新安置的四个阶段框架 (FSF) 的第 3 和第 4 阶段。文章认为，当人们因宗教和社会经济原因而被拒绝使用水库及其资源时，他们很难充分通过这四个阶段。本文基于 2017 年 4 月至 10 月期间在巴东加人进行的民族志研究和广泛的文件分析。