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Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

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Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

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Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

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Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa book

Edited ByToyin Falola, Emily Brownell
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 28 October 2011
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203806760
Pages 354
eBook ISBN 9780203806760
Subjects Area Studies, Development Studies, Environment and Sustainability, Humanities
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Falola, T., & Brownell, E. (Eds.). (2012). Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203806760

ABSTRACT

This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are "environment" and "landscape," and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate on Africans as perpetrators of their own land, causing degradation from lack of knowledge and technology. "Landscape" defines the category of knowledge produced by foreigners about Africa, where Africans remain part of the scenery and yield no agency over their surroundings. To flesh out these categories and explore their creation and how they have been deployed to shape colonial and postcolonial discourses on Africa, this volume investigates the "technological pastoral," the points of convergence and conflict between Western notions of pastoral Africa and the introduction of colonial technology, scientific ideas and commodification of land and animals.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Introduction: Landscapes, Environments and Technology— Looking Out, Looking Back

ByEMILY BROWNELL, TOYIN FALOLA

part |2 pages

Part I : Commodifying Nature and Constructing Landscapes

chapter 1|21 pages

Chimpanzees in the Colonial Maelstrom: Struggles over Knowledge, Race and Commodities in the Gabonese Primate Trade, c. 1850–1940

ByJEREMY RICH

chapter 2|20 pages

Appraising Nature: Pastoralist Practice, Hunting Logics and Landscape Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa

ByLAURA J. MITCHELL

chapter 3|23 pages

The Railway in Colonial East Africa: Colonial Iconography and African Appropriation of a New Technology

ByCHRISTIANE REICHART-BURIKUKIYE

part |2 pages

Part II : Colonized Environments: Domestication, Medicine and Technology

chapter 4|33 pages

Science, Technology and the African Woman During (British) Colonization, 1916–1960: The Case of Bamenda Province

ByBRIDGET A. TEBOH

chapter 5|28 pages

Western Biomedicine and Colonialism: The Church Missionary Society Medical Mission in the Lake Victoria Basin

ByHANNINGTON OCHWADA

chapter 6|23 pages

The Price of “Modernity”? Western Railroad Technology and the 1918 Infl uenza Pandemic in Nigeria

ByTOKUNBO A. AYOOLA

part |2 pages

Part III : Cultivation and Conservation: Contested Theory and Practice in Colonial Encounters

chapter 7|29 pages

Labor Costs and the Failed Support of Progressive Farmers in Colonial Malawi

ByERIK GREEN

chapter 8|26 pages

Cattle in British Southern Cameroons: Innovations in Grazing and Environmental Control 1916–1960

ByEMMANUEL M. MBAH

chapter 9|20 pages

The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Conservation in Africa: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya

ByKenya MAURICE AMUTABI

chapter 10|23 pages

Managerial Technologies, [I]legal Livelihoods and the Forgotten Consumers of Africa’s Largest Freshwater Fishery

ByJENNIFER LEE JOHNSON

part |2 pages

Part IV : Postcolonial African Landscapes: Locating Africa in the Global Environmental Crisis

chapter 11|18 pages

Fictionalizing the Crisis of the Environment in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Songs of Enchantment KAYODE O. OGUNFOLABI

Edited ByToyin Falola, Emily Brownell

chapter 12|20 pages

Health Transitions and Environmental Change in Contemporary Africa

ByContemporary Africa KATHRYN H. JACOBSEN

chapter 13|17 pages

Growing a Global Green Economy: Getting Africa Prepared to Lend a Hand

ByRUBIN PATTERSON

chapter |5 pages

Conclusion Environmental Crisis and Development

ByEMILY BROWNELL

chapter |4 pages

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Edited ByToyin Falola, Emily Brownell
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