Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Herausgeber: Brownell, Emily; Falola, Toyin

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780415895934
• ISBN-10: 0415895936
• Artikelnr.: 33083733

Autorenporträt

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History and a Distinguished Teaching Professsor at the University of Texas at Austin. Emily Brownell is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Landscapes, Environments and Technology: Looking Out, Looking
Back Emily Brownell and Toyin FalolaPart One: Commodifying Nature and
Constructing Landscapes 1. Chimpanzees in the Colonial Maelstrom: Struggles
over Knowledge, Race, and Commodities in the Gabonese Primate Trade, c.
1850-1940 Jeremy Rich 2. Appraising Nature: Pastoralist Practice, Hunting
Logics, and Landscape Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa Laura J.
Mitchell 3. The Railway in Colonial East Africa: Colonial Iconography and
African Appropriation of a New Technology Christiane ReichartPart Two:
Colonized Environments: Domestication, Medicine and Technology 4. Science,
Technology and the African Woman During (British) Colonization, 1916-1960:
The Case of Bamenda Province Bridget A. Teboh 5. Western Biomedicine and
Colonialism: The Church Missionary Society Medical Mission in the Lake
Victoria Basin Hannington Ochwada 6. The Price of "Modernity"? Western
Railroad Technology and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Nigeria Tokunbo A.
AyoolaPart Three: Cultivation and Conservation: Contested Theory and
Practice in Colonial Encounters 7. Labor Costs and the Failed Support of
Progressive Farmers in Colonial Malawi Erik Green 8. Cattle in British
Southern Cameroons: Innovations in Grazing and Environmental Control
1916-1960 Emmanuel M. Mbah 9. The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in
Environmental Conservation in Africa: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western
Kenya Maurice Amutabi 10. Managerial Technologies, [I]legal Livelihoods and
the Forgotten Consumers of Africa's Largest Freshwater Fishery Jennifer Lee
JohnsonPart Four: Postcolonial African Landscapes: Locating Africa in the
Global Environmental Crisis 11. Fictionalizing the Crisis of the
Environment in Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Songs of Enchantments
Kayode O. Ogunfolabi 12. Health Transitions and Environmental Change in
Contemporary Africa Kathryn H. Jacobsen 13. Growing a Global Green Economy:
Getting Africa Prepared to Lend a Hand Rubin Patterson. Conclusion:
Environmental Crisis and Development Emily Brownell