Misreading The African Landscape
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Author |
: James Fairhead |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 1996-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521564999 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521564991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Misreading the African Landscape by : James Fairhead
An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.
Author |
: James Fairhead |
Publisher |
: CUP Archive |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 1996-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521563534 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521563536 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Misreading the African Landscape by : James Fairhead
An intriguing 1996 study showing how Africans enrich their land, while scientists believe they damage it.
Author |
: Donald Worster |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521348463 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521348461 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ends of the Earth by : Donald Worster
A unifying discussion of our increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and greater resource demands.
Author |
: Melissa Leach |
Publisher |
: James Currey Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0852554095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780852554098 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lie of the Land by : Melissa Leach
Questions the reasoning behind Western images of the environmental destruction taking place in Africa. This book addresses the issue of how environmental orthodoxies become established, and what the alternative and appropriate approaches for policy-making are. It shows that many of the established orthodoxies are ill-conceived or represent the interests of certain powerful groups. The editors draw together material from 11 key case studies across the continent which use first hand research in different ecological zones. Melissa Leach & RobinMearns are Fellows at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex Published in association with the International African Institute
Author |
: James Fairhead |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2003-10-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521535662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521535663 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science, Society and Power by : James Fairhead
In this book, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach bring science to the heart of debates about globalisation, exploring transformations in global science and contrasting effects in Guinea, one of the world's poorest countries, and Trinidad, a more prosperous, industrialised and urbanised island. The book focuses on environment, forestry and conservation sciences that are central to these countries and involve resources that many depend upon for their livelihoods. It examines the relationships between policies, bureaucracies and particular types of scientific enquiry and explores how ordinary people, the media and educational practices engage with this. In particular it shows how science becomes part of struggles over power, resources and legitimacy. The authors take a unique ethnographic perspective, linking approaches in anthropology, development and science studies. They address critically prominent debates in each, and explore opportunities for new forms of participation, public engagement and transformation in the social relations of science.
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Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:469383753 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Misreading the African Landscape by :
Author |
: Kate Barger Showers |
Publisher |
: Ohio University Press |
Total Pages |
: 377 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780821416136 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0821416138 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imperial Gullies by : Kate Barger Showers
Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and treeless wasteland. The nation's spectacular gullying has concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century, In Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho, Kate B. Showers documents the truth behind this devastation. Showers reconstructs the history of the landscape, beginning with a history of the soil. She concludes that Lesotho's distinctive erosion chasms, called dongas, often cited as an example of destructive land-use practices by African farmers, actually were caused by colonial and postcolonial practices. The residents of Lesotho emerge as victims of a failed technology. Their efforts to mitigate or resist implementation of destructive soil conservation engineering works were thwarted, and they were blamed for the consequences of policies promoted by international soil conservationists since the 1930s. Imperial Gullies calls for an observational, experimental and, most importantly, a fully consultative and participatory approach to address Lesotho's serious contemporary problems of soil erosion. The first book to bring to center stage the historical practice of colonial soil science and a cautionary tale of western science in unfamiliar terrain it will interest a broad, interdisciplinary audience in African and environmental studies, social sciences, and history. "Showers shows how local people understood that colonial contour conservation methods and road building actually stimulated gully erosion, something colonial scientists failed to realize. Overall it is undoubtedly one of the most important books written to date on any part of the environmental history of Africa. Moreover it stands out in the discipline of environmental history in general as an unusually sophisticated work of great insight and explanatory power."---Richard H. Grove, author of Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 Kate B. Showers is a visiting research fellow and senior research associate at the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex, England. She has lived in rural Lesotho and has served as head of research, Institute of Southern African Studies, National University of Lesotho.
Author |
: Gufu Oba |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2021-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1032173084 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781032173085 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Environmental Crisis by : Gufu Oba
African Environmental Crisis explores how and why the idea of the African environmental crisis developed and persisted through colonial and post-colonial periods, and why it has been so influential in development discourse.
Author |
: Christian A. Kull |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 339 |
Release |
: 2004-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226461410 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226461416 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Isle of Fire by : Christian A. Kull
Long considered both best friend and worst enemy to humankind, fire is at once creative and destructive. On the endangered tropical island of Madagascar, these two faces of fire have fueled a century-long conflict between rural farmers and island leaders. Based on detailed fieldwork in Malagasy villages and a thorough archival investigation, Isle of Fire offers a detailed analysis of why Madagascar has always been aflame, why it always will be aflame, and ultimately, as Christian Kull argues, why it should remain aflame.
Author |
: Roy Richard Grinker |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 483 |
Release |
: 2019-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781119251484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1119251486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa by : Roy Richard Grinker
An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study. A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists, it is an ideal introduction to the most important topics in the field, both those that have consistently been a part of the critical dialogue and those that have emerged as the central questions of the discipline’s future. Beginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa provides a foundation in the contemporary critical approach to subjects of longstanding interest. With these subjects as a groundwork, later essays address decolonization, the postcolonial experience, and questions of modern identity and definition, providing representation of the diverse thinking and scholarship in the modern anthropology of Africa.