Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial AfricaToyin Falola, Emily Brownell Routledge, 2013 M03 1 - 354 pages 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. |
Contents
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Chimpanzees in the Colonial Maelstrom Struggles over Knowledge | 76 |
Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa | |
Appropriation of a New Technology | |
Science Technology and the African Woman During British | |
Western Biomedicine and Colonialism The Church Missionary Society | |
The Price of Modernity? Western Railroad Technology and the 1918 | |
Labor Costs and the Failed Support of Progressive Farmers in Colonial | |
The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Conservation | |
Managerial Technologies Ilegal Livelihoods and the Forgotten | |
Fictionalizing the Crisis of the Environment in Ben Okris | |
Health Transitions and Environmental Change in Contemporary Africa | |
Growing a Global Green Economy Getting Africa Prepared to Lend | |
Conclusion Environmental Crisis and Development | |
Cattle in British Southern Cameroons Innovations in Grazing | |
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