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In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa,
historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between
well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters
and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnography,
scientific publications, private archives and interviews, Jacobs
asks: How did white ornithologists both depend on and operate
distinctively from African birders? What investment did African
birders have in collaborating with ornithologists? By distilling
the interactions between European science and African vernacular
knowledge, this work offers a fascinating examination of the
colonial and postcolonial politics of expertise about nature. It is
also a riveting history of the discovery of certain bird species.
Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these
historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage
vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate
social-environmental inequity. This book highlights the ways poor
and vulnerable people in South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe have
mobilized against the structural and political forces that deny
them a healthy and sustainable environment. Spanning the colonial,
postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these studies engage
vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate
social-environmental inequity. Some chapters track the genealogies
of contemporary activism, while others introduce positions, actors,
and thinkers not previously identified with environmental justice.
Addressing health, economic opportunity, agricultural policy, and
food security, the chapters in this book explore a range of issues
and ways of thinking about harm to people and their ecologies.
Because environmental justice is often understood as a contemporary
phenomenon framed around North American examples, these fresh case
studies will enrich both southern African history and global
environmental studies. Environment, Power, and Justice expands
conceptions of environmental justice and reveals discourses and
dynamics that advance both scholarship and social change.
Contributors: Christopher Conz Marc Epprecht Mary Galvin Sarah Ives
Admire Mseba Muchaparara Musemwa Matthew A. Schnurr Cherryl Walker
Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these
historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage
vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate
social-environmental inequity. This book highlights the ways poor
and vulnerable people in South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe have
mobilized against the structural and political forces that deny
them a healthy and sustainable environment. Spanning the colonial,
postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these studies engage
vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate
social-environmental inequity. Some chapters track the genealogies
of contemporary activism, while others introduce positions, actors,
and thinkers not previously identified with environmental justice.
Addressing health, economic opportunity, agricultural policy, and
food security, the chapters in this book explore a range of issues
and ways of thinking about harm to people and their ecologies.
Because environmental justice is often understood as a contemporary
phenomenon framed around North American examples, these fresh case
studies will enrich both southern African history and global
environmental studies. Environment, Power, and Justice expands
conceptions of environmental justice and reveals discourses and
dynamics that advance both scholarship and social change.
Contributors: Christopher Conz Marc Epprecht Mary Galvin Sarah Ives
Admire Mseba Muchaparara Musemwa Matthew A. Schnurr Cherryl Walker
African History through Sources recounts the history of colonial
Africa through more than 100 primary sources produced by a variety
of actors: ordinary men and women, the educated elite, and colonial
officials. Including official documents, as well as interviews,
memoirs, lyrics, and photographs, the book balances coverage of the
state and economy with attention to daily life, family life, and
cultural change. Entries are drawn from all around sub-Saharan
Africa, and many have been translated into English for the first
time. Introductions to each source and chapter provide context and
identify themes. African History through Sources allows readers to
analyze change, understand perspectives, and imagine everyday life
during an extraordinary time.
This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods--Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1980s--Environment, Power and Injustice shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender, and race. While exploring biological, geological, and climatological forces in history, this book argues that the challenges of existence in a semidesert arose more from human injustice than from deficiencies in the natural environment. In fact, powerful people drew strength from and exercised their power over others through the environment. At the same time, the natural world provided marginal peoples with some relief from human injustice. Nancy J. Jacobs is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is a recipient of the Alice Hamilton article prize from the American Society for Environmental History.
This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods--Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1980s--Environment, Power and Injustice shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender, and race. While exploring biological, geological, and climatological forces in history, this book argues that the challenges of existence in a semidesert arose more from human injustice than from deficiencies in the natural environment. In fact, powerful people drew strength from and exercised their power over others through the environment. At the same time, the natural world provided marginal peoples with some relief from human injustice. Nancy J. Jacobs is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is a recipient of the Alice Hamilton article prize from the American Society for Environmental History.
African History through Sources recounts the history of colonial
Africa through more than 100 primary sources produced by a variety
of actors: ordinary men and women, the educated elite, and colonial
officials. Including official documents, as well as interviews,
memoirs, lyrics, and photographs, the book balances coverage of the
state and economy with attention to daily life, family life, and
cultural change. Entries are drawn from all around sub-Saharan
Africa, and many have been translated into English for the first
time. Introductions to each source and chapter provide context and
identify themes. African History through Sources allows readers to
analyze change, understand perspectives, and imagine everyday life
during an extraordinary time.
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