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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New York, : Routledge, 2011"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9781136657641"]
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[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (355 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Routledge African studies ; ; 6"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"333.7096"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Environmental policy - Africa - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Land use - Environmental aspects - Africa - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Technology - Environmental aspects - Africa - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Economic development - Environmental aspects - Africa - History"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover; Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Tables; Introduction: Landscapes, Environments and Technology- Looking Out, Looking Back; Part I : Commodifying Nature and Constructing Landscapes; 1. Chimpanzees in the Colonial Maelstrom: Struggles over Knowledge, Race and Commodities in the Gabonese Primate Trade, c. 1850-1940; 2. Appraising Nature: Pastoralist Practice, Hunting Logics and Landscape Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa"]
[{"$nulls":4},"3. 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"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Part III : Cultivation and Conservation: Contested Theory and Practice in Colonial Encounters7. Labor Costs and the Failed Support of "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Part 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"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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 categori"]