Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial AfricaToyin Falola, Emily Brownell Routledge, 2013 - 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
Landscapes Environments and Technology Looking Out Looking Back | 1 |
Commodifying Nature and Constructing Landscapes
| 19 |
Struggles over Knowledge Race and Commodities in the Gabonese Primate Trade c 18501940
| 21 |
Pastoralist Practice Hunting Logics and Landscape Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa
| 42 |
Colonial Iconography and African Appropriation of a New Technology
| 62 |
Colonized Environments Domestication Medicine and Technology
| 85 |
The Case of Bamenda Province
| 87 |
The Church Missionary Society Medical Mission in the Lake Victoria Basin
| 120 |
Innovations in Grazing and Environmental Control 19161960
| 202 |
The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya
| 228 |
10 Managerial Technologies Ilegal Livelihoods and the Forgotten Consumers of Africas Largest Freshwater Fishery
| 248 |
Postcolonial African Landscapes Locating Africa in the Global Environmental Crisis
| 271 |
11 Fictionalizing the Crisis of the Environment in Ben Okris The Famished Road and Songs of Enchantment
| 273 |
12 Health Transitions and Environmental Change in Contemporary Africa
| 291 |
Getting Africa Prepared to Lend a Hand
| 311 |
Conclusion Environmental Crisis and Development
| 328 |
6 The Price of Modernity? Western Railroad Technology and the 1918 Infl uenza Pandemic in Nigeria
| 148 |
Cultivation and Conservation Contested Theory and Practice in Colonial Encounters
| 171 |
7 Labor Costs and the Failed Support of Progressive Farmers in Colonial Malawi
| 173 |
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Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa Toyin Falola,Emily Brownell No preview available - 2013 |
Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa Toyin Falola,Emily Brownell No preview available - 2012 |