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Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
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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
part |2 pages
Part I : Commodifying Nature and Constructing Landscapes
chapter 2|20 pages
Appraising Nature: Pastoralist Practice, Hunting Logics and Landscape Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa
chapter 3|23 pages
The Railway in Colonial East Africa: Colonial Iconography and African Appropriation of a New Technology
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
chapter 5|28 pages
Western Biomedicine and Colonialism: The Church Missionary Society Medical Mission in the Lake Victoria Basin
chapter 6|23 pages
The Price of “Modernity”? Western Railroad Technology and the 1918 Infl uenza Pandemic in Nigeria
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
chapter 8|26 pages
Cattle in British Southern Cameroons: Innovations in Grazing and Environmental Control 1916–1960
chapter 9|20 pages
The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Conservation in Africa: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya
chapter 10|23 pages
Managerial Technologies, [I]legal Livelihoods and the Forgotten Consumers of Africa’s Largest Freshwater Fishery
part |2 pages
Part IV : Postcolonial African Landscapes: Locating Africa in the Global Environmental Crisis