Research Catalog

Title

Shaping the African savannah : from capitalist frontier to arid Eden in Namibia / Michael Bollig, University of Cologne.

Author

Bollig, Michael

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xiii, 404 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"The southern African savannah landscape has been framed as an 'Arid Eden' in recent literature, as one of Africa's most sought after exotic tourism destinations by twenty-first century travellers, as a 'last frontier' by early twentieth-century travellers and as an ancient ancestral land by Namibia's Herero communities. In this 150-year history of the region, Michael Bollig looks at how this 'Arid Eden' came into being, how this 'last frontier' was construed, and how local pastoralists relate to the landscape. Putting the intricate and changing relations between humans, arid savannah grasslands, and its co-evolving animal inhabitants at the centre of his analysis, this history tells the story of material relations, of power struggles between commercial hunters and wildlife, between wealthy cattle patrons and foraging clients, between established homesteads and recent migrants, conservationists and pastoralists. Finally, Bollig highlights how futures are being aspired to and planned for between the increasing challenges of climate change, global demands for cheap ores and quests for biodiversity conservation."--taken from page before title page.

Series Statement

African studies ; 148

Uniform Title

African studies series ; 148.

Subject

• Savannas > Namibia > History
• Savanna ecology > Namibia > History
• Human ecology > Namibia > History
• Human ecology
• Savanna ecology
• Savannas
• Namibia

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1. Introduction -- 1. Doing research on a changing savannah landscape -- Part 2. The Evolution of Pre-Colonial Environmental Infrastructure -- 2. The prehistory of north-western Namibia and the emergence of pastoralism -- 3. Elephants and humans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century -- Part 3. Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s -- 4. Scientists, cartographers, photographers, and the establishment of Western knowledge of the Kaokoveld -- 5. The establishment of colonial administration and the re-establishment of a pastoral livelihood -- 6. The politics of encapsulation : Game protection, instituting borders, and controlling mobility -- Part 4. The State, Intervention, and Local Appropriations between the 1950s and 1980s -- 7. A hydrological revolution in an African savannah -- 8. Conservation and poaching in the 1970s and 1980s -- Part 5. Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present -- 9. Pastoralism, environmental infrastructures, and state-local society relations in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century -- 10. The establishment of 'new commons' by government decree -- 11. Into the future : Envisioning, planning, and negotiating environmental infrastructures -- Part 6. Theorising Time, Space, and Change in a Pastoral System -- 12. The changing environmental infrastructure of the north-western Namibian savannah -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

Sc E 22-503

ISBN

• 9781108488488
• 110848848X
• 9781108726399
• 1108726399

LCCN

2019060071

OCLC

1135668355

Author

Bollig, Michael, author.

Title

Shaping the African savannah : from capitalist frontier to arid Eden in Namibia / Michael Bollig, University of Cologne.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African studies ; 148

African studies series ; 148.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-503