Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415895934 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 354 str.

Toyin Falola

Opis

This volume explores the concepts of environment and landscape in colonial and postcolonial discourse about Africa, analysing the points of convergence and conflict between Western notions of pastoral Africa and the introduction of colonial technology, scientific ideas, and capitalist agriculture.

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Introduction: Landscapes, Environments and Technology: Looking Out, Looking Back  Emily Brownell and Toyin Falola  Part 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 Reichart  Part 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. Ayoola  Part 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 Johnson  Part 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

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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.