LEADER 04889oam 2200721I 450 001 9910451724103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-136-65765-7 010 $a0-203-80676-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203806760 035 $a(CKB)2550000000097700 035 $a(EBL)957388 035 $a(OCoLC)798533068 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000678142 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11930417 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678142 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10699453 035 $a(PQKB)10674205 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC957388 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL957388 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10542332 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL760902 035 $a(OCoLC)830348365 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000097700 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLandscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa /$fedited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (355 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge African studies ;$v6 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-71953-4 311 $a0-415-89593-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Tables; Introduction: Landscapes, Environments and Technology- Looking Out, Looking Back; Part I : Commodifying Nature and Constructing Landscapes; 1. Chimpanzees in the Colonial Maelstrom: Struggles over Knowledge, Race and Commodities in the Gabonese Primate Trade, c. 1850-1940; 2. Appraising Nature: Pastoralist Practice, Hunting Logics and Landscape Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa 327 $a3. The Railway in Colonial East Africa: Colonial Iconography and African Appropriation of a New TechnologyPart II : Colonized Environments: Domestication, Medicine and Technology; 4. Science, Technology and the African Woman During (British) Colonization, 1916-1960: The Case of Bamenda Province; 5. Western Biomedicine and Colonialism: The Church Missionary Society Medical Mission in the Lake Victoria Basin; 6. The Price of "Modernity"? Western Railroad Technology and the 1918 Infl uenza Pandemic in Nigeria 327 $aPart III : Cultivation and Conservation: Contested Theory and Practice in Colonial Encounters7. Labor Costs and the Failed Support of Progressive Farmers in Colonial Malawi; 8. Cattle in British Southern Cameroons: Innovations in Grazing and Environmental Control 1916-1960; 9. The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Conservation in Africa: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya; 10. Managerial Technologies, [I]legal Livelihoods and the Forgotten Consumers of Africa's Largest Freshwater Fishery 327 $aPart IV : Postcolonial African Landscapes: Locating Africa in the Global Environmental Crisis11. Fictionalizing the Crisis of the Environment in Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Songs of Enchantment; 12. Health Transitions and Environmental Change in Contemporary Africa; 13. Growing a Global Green Economy: Getting Africa Prepared to Lend a Hand; Conclusion Environmental Crisis and Development; Contributors; Index 330 $aThis volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are ""environment"" and ""landscape,"" and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate on Africans as perpetrators of their own land, causing degradation from lack of knowledge and technology. ""Landscape"" defines the category of knowledge produced by foreigners about Africa, where Africans remain part of the scenery and yield no agency over their surroundings. To flesh out these categori 410 0$aRoutledge African studies ;$v6. 606 $aEnvironmental policy$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aLand use$xEnvironmental aspects$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aTechnology$xEnvironmental aspects$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aEconomic development$xEnvironmental aspects$zAfrica$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnvironmental policy$xHistory. 615 0$aLand use$xEnvironmental aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aTechnology$xEnvironmental aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aEconomic development$xEnvironmental aspects$xHistory. 676 $a333.7096 701 $aBrownell$b Emily$0979837 701 $aFalola$b Toyin$0661412 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451724103321 996 $aLandscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa$92234628 997 $aUNINA