Michael Bollig

Shaping the African Savannah (eBook, ePUB)

From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The southern African savannah landscape has been framed as an 'Arid Eden' in recent literature, as one of Africa's most sought after exotic tourism destinations by twenty-first century travellers, as a 'last frontier' by early twentieth-century travellers and as an ancient ancestral land by Namibia's Herero communities. In this 150-year history of the region, Michael Bollig looks at how this 'Arid Eden' came into being, how this 'last frontier' was construed, and how local pastoralists relate to the landscape. Putting the intricate and changing relations between humans, arid savannah grasslands and its co-evolving animal inhabitants at the centre of his analysis, this history of material relations, of power struggles between commercial hunters and wildlife, between wealthy cattle patrons and foraging clients, between established homesteads and recent migrants, conservationists and pastoralists. Finally, Bollig highlights how futures are being aspired to and planned for between the increasing challenges of climate change, global demands for cheap ores and quests for biodiversity conservation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108803267
• Artikelnr.: 62746156

Autorenporträt

Michael Bollig is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne where his key interests lie in the environmental anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa. His current research projects focus on the social-ecological dynamics connected to large-scale conservation projects, the commodification of nature and the political ecology of pastoralism. He is the author of Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment (2006), co-author of African Landscapes (2009) with O. Bubenzer, Pastoralism in Africa (2013) with M. Schnegg and H.P. Wotzka, and Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs (2017) with D. Anderson.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction; 1. Doing research on a changing savannah landscape; II.
The evolution of pre-colonial environmental infrastructures; 2. The
prehistory of North-western Namibia and the riddled emergence of
pastoralism; 3. Elephants and humans in the late 19th and early 20th
century; III. Encapsulation and pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s; 4.
Scientist, cartographers, photographers and the establishment of western
knowledge of the Kaokofeld; 5. The establishment of colonial administration
and the re-immigration of pastoralists into the Kaokoveld - 1900s to 1920s;
6. The politics of encapsulation: game protection, instituting borders and
controlling mobility; IV. The state, intervention, and local appropriations
between 1950s and 1980s; 7. A hydrological revolution in an African
savannah; 8.Conservation and poaching in the 1970s and 1980s; V. Dynamics
of social-ecological relations between the 1990s and the present; 9:
Pastoralism, environmental infrastructures and state-local society
relations in the late 20th and early 21st century; 10. The establishment of
"new commons" by government decree; 11. Into the future - envisioning,
planning and negotiating environmental infrastructures; VI. Theorizing
time, space, and change in a pastoral system; 12. The changing
environmental infrastructure of the north-western Namibian savannah