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Natures of Africa

Author : F. Fiona Moolla
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1868149145
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Natures of Africa written by F. Fiona Moolla and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media. Environmental and animal studies are rapidly growing areas of interest across a number of disciplines. Natures of Africa is one of the first edited volumes which encompasses transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media. The volume features new research from East Africa and Zimbabwe, as well as the ecocritical and eco-activist 'powerhouses' of Nigeria and South Africa. The chapters engage one another conceptually and epistemologically without an enforced consensus of approach. In their conversation with dominant ideas about nature and animals, they reveal unexpected insights into forms of cultural expression of local communities in Africa. The analyses explore different apprehensions of the connections between humans, animals and the environment, and suggest alternative ways of addressing the challenges facing the continent. These include the problems of global warming, desertification, floods, animal extinctions and environmental destruction attendant upon fossil fuel extraction. There are few books that show how nature in Africa is represented, celebrated, mourned or commoditised. Natures of Africa weaves together studies of narratives - from folklore, travel writing, novels and popular songs - with the insights of poetry and contemporary reflections of Africa on the worldwide web. The chapters test disciplinary and conceptual boundaries, highlighting the ways in which the environmental concerns of African communities cannot be disentangled from social, cultural and political questions. This volume draws on and will appeal to scholars and teachers of oral tradition and indigenous cultures, literature, religion, sociology and anthropology, environmental and animal studies, as well as media and digital cultures in an African context.

The Healing Wisdom of Africa

Author : Malidoma Patrice Some
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 087477991X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Healing Wisdom of Africa written by Malidoma Patrice Some and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationship with the natural world that both surrounds us and is within us. The book is the most complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people--and the role it can play for seekers in the West.

African Nature Notes and Reminiscences

Author : Frederick Courteney Selous
Publisher : London, [England] : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book African Nature Notes and Reminiscences written by Frederick Courteney Selous and published by London, [England] : Macmillan. This book was released on 1908 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Plains Coloring Book

Author : Dianne Gaspas-Ettl
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486292304
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Book Synopsis African Plains Coloring Book by : Dianne Gaspas-Ettl

Download or read book African Plains Coloring Book written by Dianne Gaspas-Ettl and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-08-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-one realistic scenes of wildlife in their natural habitats, including a giraffe at a water hole and a cheetah with its young on an abandoned termite mound. Captions.

Imposing Wilderness

Author : Roderick P. Neumann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520211780
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Imposing Wilderness written by Roderick P. Neumann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the symbolic importance of natural landscapes among various social groups in this setting, and how it relates to conflicts between peasant communities and the state. Neumann's thoughtful framing of the issues that fuel ongoing controversies will interest ecologists as well as those interested in political economy and development in Africa.

Natures of Africa

Author : F. Fiona Moolla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781868149162
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Natures of Africa written by F. Fiona Moolla and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narrating Nature

Author : Mara Jill Goldman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539677
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Nature written by Mara Jill Goldman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the growing movement within the academy and beyond on decolonizing knowledge about and relationships with nature, and debates within the social sciences on how to work across epistemologies and ontologies. It also speaks to a growing need within conservation studies to find ways to manage nature with people. This book employs different storytelling practices, including a traditional Maasai oral meeting—the enkiguena—to decenter conventional scientific ways of communicating about, knowing, and managing nature. Author Mara J. Goldman draws on more than two decades of deep ethnographic and ecological engagements in the semi-arid rangelands of East Africa—in landscapes inhabited by pastoral and agropastoral Maasai people and heavily utilized by wildlife. These iconic landscapes have continuously been subjected to boundary drawing practices by outsiders, separating out places for people (villages) from places for nature (protected areas). Narrating Nature follows the resulting boundary crossings that regularly occur—of people, wildlife, and knowledge—to expose them not as transgressions but as opportunities to complicate the categories themselves and create ontological openings for knowing and being with nature otherwise. Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives by providing space for local Maasai inhabitants to share their ways of knowing and being with nature. It moves beyond standard community conservation narratives that see local people as beneficiaries or contributors to conservation, to demonstrate how they are essential knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.

The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa

Author : Maano Ramutsindela
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 3905758873
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa written by Maano Ramutsindela and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together recent and ongoing empirical studies to examine two relational kinds of politics, namely, the politics of nature, i.e. how nature conservation projects are sites on which power relations play out, and the politics of the scientific study of nature. These are discussed in their historical and present contexts, and at specific sites on which particular human-environment relations are forged or contested. This spatio-temporal juxtaposition is lacking in current research on political ecology while the politics of science appears marginal to critical scholarship on social nature. Specifically, the book examines power relations in nature-related activities, demonstrates conditions under which nature and science are politicised, and also accounts for political interests and struggles over nature in its various forms. The ecological, socio-political and economic dimensions of nature cannot be ignored when dealing with present-day environmental issues. Nature conservation regulations are concerned with the management of flora and fauna as much as with humans. Various chapters in the book pay attention to the ways in which nature, science and politics are interrelated and also co-constitutive of each other. They highlight that power relations are naturalised through science and science-related institutions and projects such as museums, botanical gardens, wetlands, parks and nature reserves.

Nature Conservation in Southern Africa

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004385118
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Nature Conservation in Southern Africa written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature Conservation in Southern Africa. Morality and Marginality: Towards Sentient Conservation? proposes ways to study linkages between the marginality, subjectivity and agency of both human and animals, promoting a new approach to conservation referred to as ‘sentient conservation’.

The Nature of Heritage

Author : Lynn Meskell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118106636
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Heritage written by Lynn Meskell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa is unique in revealing the conflicts inherent in preserving both natural and cultural heritage, by examining the archaeological, ethnographic and economic evidence of a nation's attempts to master its past and its future. Provides a classic example of how nations attempt to overcome a negative heritage through past mastering of their histories Evaluates the continuing dominance of nature and conservation over concerns for cultural heritage Employs ethnographic and archaeological methodologies to reveal how the past is processed into a new national heritage Identifies heritage as therapy, exemplified in the strategy for repairing legacies of racial and ethnic difference in post-apartheid South Africa Highlights the role of archaeological heritage sites, national parks and protected areas in economic development and social empowerment Explores how nature trumps culture and the global implications of the new configurations of heritage

Environment and History

Author : William Beinart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134822545
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Environment and History written by William Beinart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five hundred years. Using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, Beinart and Coates examine this neglected aspect of the history of settler incursion and dominance in two frontier nations, the USA and South Africa. They also seek to explain change in indigenous ideas and practices towards the environment, and discuss the rise of popular environmentalism up to the present day.

The Climate of the Continent of Africa

Author : Alexander Knox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Climate of the Continent of Africa written by Alexander Knox and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Richard Primack
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783747536
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Richard Primack and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region. Boxes covering specific themes written by scientists who live and work throughout the region are included in each chapter, together with recommended readings and suggested discussion topics. Each chapter also includes an extensive bibliography. Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa provides the most up-to-date study in the field. It is an essential resource, available on-line without charge, for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to stop the rapid loss of biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Gregory H. Maddox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851095608
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Sub-Saharan Africa written by Gregory H. Maddox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-03-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealth of information and analysis on the environmental forces that have helped shaped the cultures of the African continent. A scholarly reference work that will also appeal to the general reader, Sub-Saharan Africa sets the story of the African environment within the context of geological time and shows how the continent's often harsh conditions prompted humans to develop unique skills in agriculture, animal husbandry, and environmental management. Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series, this book enables readers to better grasp the extent of humanity's effect on our world. Of particular interest are the book's sections dealing with the impact of the Biafran famine of the 1960s, the Sahelian drought of the 1970s, population growth, and the ongoing challenges of war and HIV/AIDS. Crucially, the book also shows how, despite their relative poverty, many African states have coped admirably with rapid urbanization and have developed world-class conservation and sustainability programs in order to protect and harness some of the most endangered species in the world.

Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood

Author : Affrica Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415687713
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood written by Affrica Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating new book, Affrica Taylor encourages an exciting paradigmatic shift in the ways in which childhood and nature are conceived and pedagogically deployed, and invites readers to critically reassess the naturalist childhood discourses that are rife within popular culture and early years education. Through adopting a common worlds framework, Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood generates a number of complex and inclusive ways of seeing and representing the early years. It recasts childhood as: messy and implicated rather than pure and innocent; situated and differentiated rather than decontextualized and universal; entangled within real world relations rather than protected in a separate space. Throughout the book, the author follows an intelligent and innovative line of thought which challenges many pre-existing ideas about childhood. Drawing upon cross-disciplinary perspectives, and with international relevance, this book makes an important contribution to the field of childhood studies and early childhood education, and will be a valuable resource for scholars, postgraduate students and higher education teachers.

The Land and Wildlife of Africa

Author : Archie Carr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Land and Wildlife of Africa written by Archie Carr and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nature of German Imperialism

Author : Bernhard Gissibl
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781789204926
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of German Imperialism written by Bernhard Gissibl and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I, focusing upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Analyzing the formative interactions between colonial governance and the natural world, The Nature of German Imperialism situates East African wildlife policies within the global emergence of conservationist sensibilities around 1900.