1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953358403321

Autore

Hughes David McDermott

Titolo

From enslavement to environmentalism : politics on a Southern African frontier / / David McDermott Hughes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2006

ISBN

9780295800516

0295800518

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Culture, place, and nature

Disciplina

333.3/096891

Soggetti

Land use - Zimbabwe - Vhimba - History

Land tenure - Zimbabwe - Vhimba - History

Land use - Mozambique - Gogói - History

Land tenure - Mozambique - Gogói - History

Vhimba (Zimbabwe) Colonization

Gogói (Mozambique) Colonization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-271) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : power on African frontiers -- Colonization, failed and successful -- Compulsory labor and unclaimed land in Gogoi, Mozambique, 1862-1992 -- From clientship to land-grabbing in Vhimba, Zimbabwe, 1893-1990 -- The border -- Refugees, squatters, and the politics of land allocation in Vhimba -- Community forestry as land-grabbing in Vhimba -- Expatriate loggers and mapmakers in Gogoi -- Native questions -- Open native reserves or none? -- In conclusion, three liberal projects reassessed.

Sommario/riassunto

From Enslavement to Environmentalism takes a challenging ethnographic and historical look at the politics of eco-development in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border zone. David Hughes argues that European colonization in southern Africa--essentially an unsuccessful effort to turn the region into another North America or Australia--has profoundly reshaped rural politics and culture and continues to do so, as neoliberal developers commoditize the lands of African peasants in the name of conservation and economic progress.Hughes builds his engaging analysis around a sort of natural experiment: in the past,



whites colonized British Zimbabwe but avoided Portuguese Mozambique almost entirely. In Zimbabwe, chiefdoms that had historically focused on controlling people began to follow the English example of consolidating political power by dividing and controlling land. Meanwhile, in Mozambique, Portugal perpetuated traditional practices of recruiting and distributing forced labor as the primary means of securing power. The territory remained unmapped. For almost the entire twentieth century, a sharp disjuncture in the politics of land, leadership, labor, and resource use marked the border zone.In the late 1990s, as white South Africans began to establish timber plantations in Mozambique, that difference began to be effaced. Under the banner of environmentalism and economic progress, tourism firms were allowed to claim peasant farmland. The objectives of liberal conservationists and developers, though high-minded, led them to commoditize ancestral lands. Southern African policymakers supported this new form of colonization as a form of racial integration between white investors and black peasants, paving the way for an ironic and contentious situation in which ethnic tolerance, gentrification, and land-grabbing have gone hand in hand.From Enslavement to Environmentalism engages topics central to current debates in anthropology, resource politics, and development policy, and will be of interest to both regional specialists and generalists.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971865903321

Titolo

The collapse of the conventional : German film and its politics at the turn of the twenty-first century / / edited by Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2010

ISBN

9780814336885

0814336884

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Collana

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Altri autori (Persone)

FisherJaimey

PragerBrad <1971->

Disciplina

792.0943/09051

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Germany - History - 21st century

Politics in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Political aspects - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager -- Imitation of life: the aesthetics of Agfacolor in recent historical cinema / Jennifer M. Kapczynski -- Public viewing: soccer patriotism and post-cinema / Lutz Koepnick -- More war stories: Stalingrad and downfall / Elisabeth Krimmer -- Neofeminist mütterfilm? the emotional politics of Margarethe von Trotta's Rosenstrasse / Anna M. Parkinson -- Dresden: the return of history as soap / Wilfried Wilms -- Terrains vagues: landscapes of unification in Oskar Roehler's No place to go / Johannes von Moltke -- German historical film as production trend: European heritage cinema and melodrama in The lives of others / Jaimey Fisher -- A world of objects: consumer culture in filmic reconstructions of the GDR / Michael D. Richardson -- Playing hide-and-seek with tradition: games, aesthetic form, and social critique in German cinema following the Wende / John E. Davidson -- Imaging Germany: the (political) cinema of Christian Petzold / Marco Abel -- Christoph Hochhäusler's This very moment: the Berlin school and the politics of spatial aesthetics in the German-Polish borderlands / Kristin Kopp -- Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei: Edukating the post-left generation / Roger F.



Cook -- The global elsewhere: Ursula Biemann's Multimedia countergeography / Barbara Mennel -- Glimpses of freedom: the reemergence of utopian longing in German cinema / Brad Prager.

Sommario/riassunto

Analyzes a diverse body of films and investigates the renaissance that has taken place in German cinema since the turn of the twenty-first century.