Environmental Infrastructure In African History

Author : Emmanuel Kreike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 1107335507

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"Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more nature to a state of less nature and more culture. In this model, non-Western and premodern societies live off natural resources, whereas more modern societies rely on artifact, or nature that is transformed and domesticated through science and technology into culture. In contrast, Emmanuel Kreike argues that both non-Western and premodern societies inhabit a dynamic middle ground between nature and culture. He asserts that humans- in collaboration with plants, animals, and other animate and inanimate forces - create environmental infrastructure that constantly is remade and reimagined in the face of ongoing processes of change"--

Author : Emmanuel Kreike
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107328235

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Environmental Infrastructure in African History by Emmanuel Kreike Pdf

Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more nature to a state of less nature and more culture. In this model, non-Western and pre-modern societies live off natural resources, whereas more modern societies rely on artifact, or nature that is transformed and domesticated through science and technology into culture. In contrast, Emmanuel Kreike argues that both non-Western and pre-modern societies inhabit a dynamic middle ground between nature and culture. He asserts that humans - in collaboration with plants, animals, and other animate and inanimate forces - create environmental infrastructure that constantly is remade and re-imagined in the face of ongoing processes of change.

Author : Emmanuel Kreike
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107001510

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Environmental Infrastructure in African History by Emmanuel Kreike Pdf

Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more nature to a state of less nature and more culture. In this model, non-Western and premodern societies live off natural resources, whereas more modern societies rely on artifact, or nature that is transformed and domesticated through science and technology into culture. In contrast, Emmanuel Kreike argues that both non-Western and premodern societies inhabit a dynamic middle ground between nature and culture. He asserts that humans- in collaboration with plants, animals, and other animate and inanimate forces - create environmental infrastructure that constantly is remade and reimagined in the face of ongoing processes of change.

Author : Emily Brownell
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780822987451

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Gone to Ground by Emily Brownell Pdf

Finalist, 2021 ASA Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize Gone to Ground is an investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is both the story of a particular city and the history of a global moment of massive urban transformation from the perspective of those at the center of this shift. Built around an archive of newspapers, oral history interviews, planning documents, and a broad compendium of development reports, Emily Brownell writes about how urbanites navigated the state’s anti-urban planning policies along with the city’s fracturing infrastructures and profound shortages of staple goods to shape Dar’s environment. They did so most frequently by “going to ground” in the urban periphery, orienting their lives to the city’s outskirts where they could plant small farms, find building materials, produce charcoal, and escape the state’s policing of urban space. Taking seriously as historical subject the daily hurdles of families to find housing, food, transportation, and space in the city, these quotidian concerns are drawn into conversation with broader national and transnational anxieties about the oil crisis, resource shortages, infrastructure, and African socialism. In bringing these concerns together into the same frame, Gone to Ground considers how the material and political anxieties of the era were made manifest in debates about building materials, imported technologies, urban agriculture, energy use, and who defines living and laboring in the city.

Author : William Beinart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015043710915

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African History, Environmental History, and Race Relations by William Beinart Pdf

In his lecture, Beinart observes that, to those who established the Rhodes Chair of Race Relations, and to subsequent electors, race relations has meant the impact of European civilisations on non-European peoples and territories in Africa.

Author : Gufu Oba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000055894

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African Environmental Crisis by Gufu Oba Pdf

This book explores how and why the idea of the African environmental crisis developed and persisted through colonial and post-colonial periods, and why it has been so influential in development discourse. From the beginnings of imperial administration, the idea of the desiccation of African environments grew in popularity, but this crisis discourse was dominated by the imposition of imperial scientific knowledge, neglecting indigenous knowledge and experience. African Environmental Crisis provides a synthesis of more than one-and-a-half century’s research on peasant agriculture and pastoral rangeland development in terms of soil erosion control, animal husbandry, grazing schemes, large-scale agricultural schemes, social and administrative science research, and vector-disease and pest controls. Drawing on comparative socio-ecological perspectives of African peoples across the East African colonies and post-independent states, this book refutes the hypothesis that African peoples were responsible for environmental degradation. Instead, Gufu Oba argues that flawed imperial assumptions and short-term research projects generated an inaccurate view of the environment in Africa. This book’s discussion of the history of science for development provides researchers across environmental studies, agronomy, African history and development studies with a lens through which to understand the underlying assumptions behind development projects in Africa.

Author : William Beinart,JoAnn McGregor
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africa
ISBN : UCSD:31822033545765

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Social History & African Environments by William Beinart,JoAnn McGregor Pdf

The explosion of interest in African environmental history has stimulated research and writing on a wide range of issues facing many African nations. This collection represents some of the finest studies to date. The general topics include African environmental ideas and practices; colonial science, the state and African responses; and settlers and Africans' culture and nature. The contributors are Emmanuel Kreike, Karen Middleton, Innocent Pikirayi, Terence Ranger, JoAnn McGregor, Helen Tilley, Grace Garswell, John McCracken, Ingrid Yngstrom, David Bunn, Sandra Swart, Robert J. Gordon, and Jane Carruthers.

Author : Giacomo Bonan,Katia Occhi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111112756

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Environment and Infrastructure by Giacomo Bonan,Katia Occhi Pdf

The material and energy flows that characterized the metabolism of preindustrial and industrial societies were organized through complex infrastructures based on interwoven social and natural elements. Analyzing infrastructures from many methodological and thematic perspectives, the present volume adopts an extensive periodization to identify the undeniable changes caused by industrialization and the persistence of pre-existing features and dynamics. The contributions range from the late Middle Ages to the 1990s and deepen historical characteristics of urban metabolism, the study of energy systems and their transitions, and the management and control of water resources. These reveal the strategies societies and states adopted to transform and adapt their surrounding environment in a constant and challenging equilibrium of diverse interests, whose impact over time has had environmental consequences on a global scale.

Author : Julia Tischler,Ingo Haltermann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004410848

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Environmental Change and African Societies by Julia Tischler,Ingo Haltermann Pdf

The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy. Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.

Author : Christopher Conz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Michael Bollig,Franz Krause
Publisher : UTB
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783825260897

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Environmental Anthropology by Michael Bollig,Franz Krause Pdf

Author : Nancy J. Jacobs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521010705

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Environment, Power, and Injustice by Nancy J. Jacobs Pdf

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Author : Ts'ui-jung Liu,James Beattie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137572318

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Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia by Ts'ui-jung Liu,James Beattie Pdf

Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:673509573

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おしゃれカタログ by Anonim Pdf

Author : Emmanuel Kreike
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691200125

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Scorched Earth by Emmanuel Kreike Pdf

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people’s livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, arguing that the resulting deliberate destruction of the environment—"environcide"—constitutes total war and is a crime against humanity and nature. In this sweeping global history, Emmanuel Kreike shows how religious war in Europe transformed Holland into a desolate swamp where hunger and the black death ruled. He describes how Spanish conquistadores exploited the irrigation works and expansive agricultural terraces of the Aztecs and Incas, triggering a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions. Kreike demonstrates how environmental warfare has continued unabated into the modern era. His panoramic narrative takes readers from the Thirty Years' War to the wars of France's Sun King, and from the Dutch colonial wars in North America and Indonesia to the early twentieth century colonial conquest of southwestern Africa. Shedding light on the premodern origins and the lasting consequences of total war, Scorched Earth explains why ecocide and genocide are not separate phenomena, and why international law must recognize environmental warfare as a violation of human rights.