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9780415719537: Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (Routledge African Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0415719534 ISBN 13: 9780415719537
Editorial: Routledge, 2013

Sinopsis

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.

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Acerca del autor

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History and a Distinguished Teaching Professsor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Emily Brownell is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415719534
ISBN 13 
9780415719537
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
354
Editor
Falola Toyin, Brownell Emily
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