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Author | : William Beinart |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The explosion of interest in African environmental history has stimulated research and writing on a wide range of issues facing many African nations. This collection represents some of the finest studies to date. The general topics include African environmental ideas and practices; colonial science, the state and African responses; and settlers and Africans' culture and nature. The contributors are Emmanuel Kreike, Karen Middleton, Innocent Pikirayi, Terence Ranger, JoAnn McGregor, Helen Tilley, Grace Garswell, John McCracken, Ingrid Yngstrom, David Bunn, Sandra Swart, Robert J. Gordon, and Jane Carruthers.
Author | : Dianne D. Glave |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2005-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822972905 |
"To Love the Wind and the Rain" is a groundbreaking and vivid analysis of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in U.S. history. It focuses on three major themes: African Americans in the rural environment, African Americans in the urban and suburban environments, and African Americans and the notion of environmental justice. Meticulously researched, the essays cover subjects including slavery, hunting, gardening, religion, the turpentine industry, outdoor recreation, women, and politics. "To Love the Wind and the Rain" will serve as an excellent foundation for future studies in African American environmental history.
Author | : Toyin Falola |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136657649 |
This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are "environment" and "landscape," and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate on Africans as perpetrators of their own land, causing degradation from lack of knowledge and technology. "Landscape" defines the category of knowledge produced by foreigners about Africa, where Africans remain part of the scenery and yield no agency over their surroundings. To flesh out these categories and explore their creation and how they have been deployed to shape colonial and postcolonial discourses on Africa, this volume investigates the "technological pastoral," the points of convergence and conflict between Western notions of pastoral Africa and the introduction of colonial technology, scientific ideas and commodification of land and animals.
Author | : William Beinart |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2008-05-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199541221 |
A major contribution to the environmental history of settler societies, William Beinart's innovative study analyses the development of conservationalist ideas over the long term in South Africa, examining them as a response to the rapid transformation of natural pastures brought about as the Cape became a major exporter of wool.
Author | : Nancy Joy Jacobs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780511120305 |
Explores the environmental dynamic in the history of rural black South Africans. It historicizes food production and other environmental relations. But class, gender and, later, race determined the food production individuals practised. After the mid-twentieth century, the interventionist state enforced coercive conservation and segregation, undermining most food production by blacks.
Author | : Emmanuel Kreike |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1107328233 |
Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more nature to a state of less nature and more culture. In this model, non-Western and pre-modern societies live off natural resources, whereas more modern societies rely on artifact, or nature that is transformed and domesticated through science and technology into culture. In contrast, Emmanuel Kreike argues that both non-Western and pre-modern societies inhabit a dynamic middle ground between nature and culture. He asserts that humans - in collaboration with plants, animals, and other animate and inanimate forces - create environmental infrastructure that constantly is remade and re-imagined in the face of ongoing processes of change.
Author | : Oluwatoyin Huntar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Parker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2007-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192802488 |
Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
Author | : James Fairhead |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1996-10-17 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521564991 |
An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.
Author | : Jacob S. T. Dlamini |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2020-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0821440888 |
Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of the world. The Kruger National Park is South Africa’s most iconic nature reserve, renowned for its rich flora and fauna. According to author Jacob Dlamini, there is another side to the park, a social history neglected by scholars and popular writers alike in which blacks (meaning Africans, Coloureds, and Indians) occupy center stage. Safari Nation details the ways in which black people devoted energies to conservation and to the park over the course of the twentieth century—engagement that transcends the stock (black) figure of the laborer and the poacher. By exploring the complex and dynamic ways in which blacks of varying class, racial, religious, and social backgrounds related to the Kruger National Park, and with the help of previously unseen archival photographs, Dlamini’s narrative also sheds new light on how and why Africa’s national parks—often derided by scholars as colonial impositions—survived the end of white rule on the continent. Relying on oral histories, photographs, and archival research, Safari Nation engages both with African historiography and with ongoing debates about the “land question,” democracy, and citizenship in South Africa.