Publications

Monographs:

·  Labour and economic change in southern Africa, 1900 to 2000: Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi (Routledge, London: 2021), with Andrew Cohen

·  Fending for ourselves: Youth in Zimbabwe, 1980-2020 (Weaver Press, Harare: 2021)

· The unbearable whiteness of being: Farmers’ voices from Zimbabwe (University of Cape Town Press, Cape Town; Weaver Press, Harare: 2012).

Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals:

·  ‘“This is where all the white farmers come to die”: The histories and new roles of white tobacco families in Zimbabwe’, Journal of Southern African Studies (January 2021, forthcoming).

· ‘Imagining change, imaginary futures: “Conditions of possibility” in pre-independence Southern Rhodesia, 1959-1963’, Social Science History, vol. 43, no. 2 (2019): 243-267.

·  ‘Farms, farm workers and new forms of livelihoods in southern Africa’, Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 18, no. 12 (2018): 473-480.

· ‘Not all whites are farmers: Urban whites and white privilege in post-colonial Zimbabwe’, with Jacob Boersema, Africa, vol. 87, no. 4 (2017): 702-719. 

·  ‘Big Business and white insecurities at the end of empire in southern Africa, c.1961-1977’, with Andrew Cohen, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 45, no. 5 (2017): 777-799.

· ‘White on white: Real and imagined crises in white southern Africa’, Historia, vol. 62, no. 1 (2017): 92-106.

·  ‘Wage labor in historical perspective: a study of the de-proletarianization of the African working class in Zimbabwe, 1960–2010’, with Ian Phimister, Labour History, vol. 58, no. 2, (2017): 215-227.

·  ‘The state, the citizen and power’, Southern African Historical Journal, vol. 68, no. 1 (2016): 1-12.

·  ‘New histories of firearms and soldiers in pre-colonial and colonial Africa’, Southern African Historical Journal, vol. 68, no. 1 (2016): 132-145.

·  ‘Possibilities and constraints of market-led land reforms in southern Africa: An analysis of transfers of commercial farmland in post-colonial Zimbabwe, 1980-2000’, Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 16, no. 1 (2016): 32-49.

· ‘Death, denial and dissidents: White commercial farmers’ discursive responses to mass violence in Zimbabwe, 1970-1980’, Acta Academica, vol. 47, no. 1 (2015): 161-181.

·  ‘Reinventing significance: Reflections on Recent Whiteness Studies in Zimbabwe’, Africa Spectrum, vol. 49, no. 3 (2014): 135-148.

·  ‘Labour relations in Zimbabwe from 1900 to 2000: Sources, interpretations and understandings’, History in Africa, vol. 41 (2014): 337-362.

·  ‘Fantasy and reality: Fast-track land reform in Zimbabwe and the new beneficiaries’, Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 14, no. 1 (2014): 146-152.

·  ‘For farmers, by farmers: Using The Farmer magazine to write the history of white farmers in Zimbabwe’, Media History, vol. 19, no. 1 (2013): 32-44.

·  ‘“The future is bright” versus “The future is bleak”: A comparison of recent documentaries on land reform in Zimbabwe’, Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 38, no. 4 (2012): 1007-1011.

·  ‘Remaining apolitical in a political crisis: Exploring interest group politics’, Journal of Developing Societies, vol. 26, no. 1 (2010): 71-98.

·  ‘“Guns don’t colonize people…”: An essay review on the role and use of firearms in pre-colonial and colonial Africa’, Kronos (2010): 266-277.

·  ‘“Dollarisation” in Zimbabwe and the death of an industry’, Review of African Political Economy, vol. 36, no. 120 (2009): 294-299.

·  ‘The unbearable whiteness of being: Land, race and belonging in the memoires of white Zimbabweans’, South African Historical Journal, vol. 6, no. 3 (2009): 621-638.

·  ‘The land question (un)resolved: An essay review’, Historia, vol. 53, no. 2 (2008): 270-279.

Book Chapters:

·  ‘The evolution of whiteness in Zimbabwe: Any white will do?’, in The Handbook of Critical Whiteness Studies (Routledge, 2021).

·  ‘Professional labour in Africa, 1900-2000’, in ILO General Labour History of Africa (James Currey, 2019).

·  ‘The story of South African coal and Emalahleni-Witbank’, with Philippe Burger, in a book on coal mining in South Africa (title to be determined, forthcoming in 2019)

· ‘Big Business and white insecurities at the end of empire in southern Africa, c.1961-1977’, with Andrew Cohen, in The Decolonisation of Zimbabwe (Routledge, 2018), edited by Kate Law, pp. 57-79.

·  ‘Migration and mine labour in South Africa’, with Philippe Burger, in Mining and Community in South Africa From Small Town to Iron Town (Routledge 2017), edited by Marais, L, Burger, P and Van Rooyen, D.

Briefings:

·  ‘The Commercial Farmers’ Union (CFU) and its politics after jambanja’, Zimbabwe Review, 1 December 2010.

Book Reviews:

·  D. Compagnon’s A Predictable Tragedy (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press: 2010), African Historical Review, 2012.

·  E. McCandless’ Polarization in Zimbabwe (Scottsville, University of KwaZulu-Natal: 2011), Historia, 2012.

·  T. Scarnecchia’s The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe (Rochester, Rochester University Press: 2008), Safundi, vol. 10, no. 2 (2009): 255-272.

·  J. Alexander’s The Unsettled Land (Oxford, James Currey: 2006), Safundi, vol. 9, no. 3 (2008): 357-366.