Research Catalog

Title

Water brings no harm : management knowledge and the struggle for the waters of Kilimanjaro / Matthew V. Bender.

Author

Bender, Matthew V.

Publication

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xv, 336 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Summary

In Water Brings No Harm, Matthew V. Bender explores the history of community water management on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro's Chagga-speaking peoples have long managed water by employing diverse knowledge: hydrological, technological, social, cultural, and political. Since the 1850s, they have encountered groups from beyond the mountain--colonial officials, missionaries, settlers, the independent Tanzanian state, development agencies, and climate scientists--who have understood water differently. Drawing on the concept of waterscapes--a term that describes how people "see" water, and how physical water resources intersect with their own beliefs, needs, and expectations--Bender argues that water conflicts should be understood as struggles between competing forms of knowledge. Water Brings No Harm encourages readers to think about the origins and interpretation of knowledge and development in Africa and the global south. It also speaks to the current global water crisis, proposing a new model for approaching sustainable water development worldwide--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

New African histories

Uniform Title

New African histories series.

Subject

• Water-supply > Tanzania > Kilimanjaro, Mount > Management
• Water security > Tanzania > Kilimanjaro, Mount
• Chaga (African people) > Tanzania
• Water-supply > Management
• Tanzania
• Tanzania > Mount Kilimanjaro

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The giver of abundance and peace : water and society on the slopes of Kilimanjaro -- The mountains of Jagga : encountering Africa's Olympus in the nineteenth century -- Do not believe that every cloud will bring rain : water cooperation in the era of German colonialism, 1885/1918 -- From abundance to scarcity : rethinking the waterscape and local knowledge, 1923/48 -- Water brings harm : transformations in household water management, 1930/50 -- More and better water : emerging nationalisms and high modernist management, 1945/85 -- Water is our gift from God! : devolution and cost recovery in the neoliberal era -- It is God's will, and also deforestation : global versus local in the disappearance of the glaciers -- Conclusion.

Call Number

Sc E 19-769

ISBN

• 9780821423585
• 0821423584
• 9780821423592
• 0821423592
• 0821446789
• 9780821446782
• 9780821446782 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018056337

OCLC

1077635209

Author

Bender, Matthew V., author.

Title

Water brings no harm : management knowledge and the struggle for the waters of Kilimanjaro / Matthew V. Bender.

Publisher

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New African histories

New African histories series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-769