Donald Moore

Donald Moore

Type
Assistant Professor Fellow
Department
Anthropology
2002-03

Donald Moore, an assistant professor in Anthropology, has received a Townsend Fellowship for Suffering for Territory: Landscape, Power, and Identity in Zimbabwe, an exploration of the cultural politics of place, ethnicity, and landscape in a particular African locale. Moore uses ethnographic, archival, and historical research to trace the competing geographical imaginaries and spatial practices that shape what he calls a “fractal landscape” in the Kaerezi Resettlement Scheme, a government administered development project in Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands. Landscape, in Moore’s project, is “less a noun than a verb”: a process of identity formation and cultural politics.