Environment Knowledge And Injustice In Lesotho

Author : Christopher Conz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847013309

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Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho by Christopher Conz Pdf

Shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge and how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable case-study for wider conversations about 'progress' and 'modernization' in the Global South. Both place-based environmental history and global intellectual history, this book explores the politics of environment, agriculture, poverty, development, and science in Lesotho. Drawing on diverse experiences with this landlocked, mountainous nation, and based on bilingual archival and oral history research in Sesotho and English, the book examines how Basotho intellectuals, farmers, migrant workers, chiefs, experts, and politicians formed vernacular ideas of tsoelopele (progress) amid the structural violence of colonialism and capitalism in southern Africa. Rather than a unidirectional flow of 'enlightened' knowledge from Europe to Africa, the study shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge, from ancestral agricultural practices to colonial soil science and from African American missionaries to African nationalists in Ghana. Basotho ideas about tsoelopele, it is argued, informed the many political, social, and environmental innovations that enabled survival within a sea of white supremacy and that underpin approaches to development in independent Lesotho. Throughout, the book shows how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as a valuable case-study for wider conversations about 'progress' and 'modernization' in the Global South.

Author : Graeme Wynn,Jane Carruthers,Nancy J. Jacobs
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821447772

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Environment, Power, and Justice by Graeme Wynn,Jane Carruthers,Nancy J. Jacobs Pdf

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

Author : Pendo Maro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 940079343X

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Environmental Change in Lesotho by Pendo Maro Pdf

Environmental Change in Lesotho identifies and analyzes the drivers of land-use change and the consequences of these changes on the livelihoods of rural land-users/managers. To accomplish this, a combination of tools from the social sciences and environmental fields were developed to identify causes and consequences of land-use change at selected levels, using a ‘nested’ approach. These methods were then applied to a case study of two villages in the Lowland region of Lesotho. This book is directed at environmental and social science experts, researchers, decision-makers, and development/aid workers interested in understanding the intricate human-environment relationship as it relates to land-use change in a changing biophysical, socio-economic, political and institutional context, coupled by HIV/AIDS, changing demographics, local perceptions and what is termed here ‘dependency syndrome’.

Author : Eromose E. Ebhuoma,Llewellyn Leonard
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030994112

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Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Governance by Eromose E. Ebhuoma,Llewellyn Leonard Pdf

This book investigates indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in sub-Saharan Africa, thereby highlighting its role in facilitating adaptation to climate variability and change, and also demystifying the challenges that prevent it from being integrated with scientific knowledge in climate governance schemes. Indigenous people and their priceless knowledge rarely feature when decision-makers prepare for future climate change. This book showcases how Indigenous knowledge facilitates adaptation to climate change, including how collaborations with scientific knowledge have cascaded into building people’s resilience to climatic risks. This book also pays delicate attention to the factors fueling epistemic injustice towards Indigenous knowledge, which hampers it from featuring in climate governance schemes across sub-Saharan Africa. The key insights shared in this book illuminate the issues that contribute meaningfully towards the actualisation of the UN SDG 13 and promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Bernstein,Colleen Kattau,Katherine Ndinda,Lisa Bernstein
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781465333391

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Wagadu Volume 6 Journal of International Women's Studies Volume 10:1 by Bernstein,Colleen Kattau,Katherine Ndinda,Lisa Bernstein Pdf

Women's Activism for Gender Equality in Africa This volume on Womens Activism for Gender Equality in Africa is a special collaboration between the Journal of International Womens Studies (JIWS) and Wagadu, two open-access journals that address gender issues within a transnational and cross-cultural context. Using interdisciplinary feminist and activist approaches these essays explore individual and collective actions undertaken by African women in cultural, social, economic, historical and political contexts. In revealing the diversity of African womens activism, the underlying issues around which womens social change work develops, and the impact that work has on individuals and communities, this volume has significance for women and men throughout the world.

Author : Leigh Price,Heila Lotz-Sistka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317338482

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Critical Realism, Environmental Learning and Social-Ecological Change by Leigh Price,Heila Lotz-Sistka Pdf

Southern Africa, where most of these book chapters originate, has been identified as one of regions of the world most at risk of the consequences of environmental degradation and climate change. At the same time, it is still seeking ways to overcome the century long ravages of colonial and apartheid impositions of structural and epistemic violence. Research deliberations and applied research case studies in environmental education and activism from this region provide an emerging contextualized engagement that is related to a wider internationally articulated quest to achieve social-ecological justice, resilience and sustainability through educational interventions. This book introduces a decade of mainly southern African critical realist environmental education research and thinking that asks the question: "How can we facilitate learning processes that will lead to the flourishing of the Earth’s people and ecosystems in more socially just ways?" The environmental education research topics represented in this book are wide-ranging. However, they all exhibit the common theme of social justice and wanting to create change towards a better future. All the authors have used critical realist or critical realist-influenced research methodologies. Offering contributions from a small but growing community of researchers working with critical realism in the global South, this book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners in the areas of environmental education, sustainability, development and the philosophy of critical realism in general.

Author : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 3070 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009445382

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Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Pdf

The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific literature relevant to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The report recognizes the interactions of climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, and human societies, and integrates across the natural, ecological, social and economic sciences. It emphasizes how efforts in adaptation and in reducing greenhouse gas emissions can come together in a process called climate resilient development, which enables a liveable future for biodiversity and humankind. The IPCC is the leading body for assessing climate change science. IPCC reports are produced in comprehensive, objective and transparent ways, ensuring they reflect the full range of views in the scientific literature. Novel elements include focused topical assessments, and an atlas presenting observed climate change impacts and future risks from global to regional scales. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : International Socioeconomics Laboratory
Publisher : International Socioeconomics Laboratory
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Across the Spectrum of Socioeconomics by International Socioeconomics Laboratory Pdf

Modern society suffers no shortage of issues, whether they came about as a result of the ongoing pandemic or have been deep-rooted within the fibers of our civilization. Rightfully so, there has been much attention drawn to the issues that pertain to the fields of medicine and biology, however the same cannot be said for a field such as socioeconomics.

Author : J. R. McNeill,Erin Stewart Mauldin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118977538

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A Companion to Global Environmental History by J. R. McNeill,Erin Stewart Mauldin Pdf

The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China

Author : Paola Velasco Herrejón,Breffní Lennon,Niall P. Dunphy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003805663

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Living with Energy Poverty by Paola Velasco Herrejón,Breffní Lennon,Niall P. Dunphy Pdf

Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences of energy-poor households across different contexts. Understanding the lived experience of energy poverty is an essential component in the design of any effort to alleviate what is fundamentally a deep-rooted, multi-faceted, wickedly complex problem. This requires a nuanced understanding of the causal factors and the research methods that can respond to the flexible spatial and temporal nature of the condition, as well as its wellbeing and justice implications. Drawing together the expertise and connectedness of authors from the Global South and North, this book presents novel approaches to understanding the often hidden forms of domestic energy deprivation. Case studies from 20 countries provide critical perspectives on this phenomenon while analysing the policy practices, government strategy, and sustainability implications of divergent manifestations. The book takes a multidimensional perspective, challenging the bias towards energy production and service provision, which often do not align with the aspirations and realities of energy households across global contexts, thus facilitating a useful dialogue on the nature of energy poverty. The book is a timely source for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars seeking fresh, diverse insights into the everyday reality of energy poverty and wanting to better understand the challenges a people-centred, just energy transition can present. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Chapter 22 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004503410

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Maritime Spaces and Society by Anonim Pdf

Social interaction with maritime environments in a symbolic, cultural or economic manner, has led to the emergence of spatial structures – the social construction of maritime spaces.

Author : Thom Davies,Alice Mah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152613702X

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Toxic Truths by Thom Davies,Alice Mah Pdf

Post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Toxic Truths examines enduring issues and new challenges for tackling environmental injustice in a post-truth age.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Lesotho
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070914572

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Lesotho Clippings by Anonim Pdf

Author : Everisto Benyera
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793622747

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Breaking the Colonial "Contract" by Everisto Benyera Pdf

The book exposes various mechanisms and methods by which covert colonial mechanisms are employed to perpetuate colonialism, especially in Africa. Less overt and more covert perpetuation of colonialism is done through the use of networks. The main achievement of the initial phase of colonialism was the establishment of networks that are nefarious and omnipresent; constituting “distributed presence,” which allows for “action at a distance.” As a result, colonial subjects became willing participants in these processes, unbeknownst to them, which perpetuated their own colonialism. The book exposes forms of colonialism where manufactured consent is used to perpetuate colonialism. Trapped in this capitalist, Western, Christian language and moral world order without sovereignty, African countries continuously sink deeper into the colonial quagmire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : IND:30000134300593

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Lesotho Social Sciences Review by Anonim Pdf