Author : Christiane Naumann
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643908445
"Where We Used to Plough" by Christiane Naumann Pdf
This book offers a historically and ethnographically informed case study of environmental governance, institutional and land-use change, and livelihood strategies in a former homeland in the South African Free State province. Based on rich archival material, the author reconstructs how the state invented a degradation narrative and used it as legitimation for the regulation of human-environment relations during the twentieth century. In addition, the study investigates how people today make a living in a post-agrarian society characterized by low agricultural production, diversification of non-farm incomes, and declining population numbers, declining population numbers. Author Christiane Naumann is a lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne.