Naming the land : San identity and community conservation in Namibia's West Caprivi / / Julie J. Taylor ; introduction by William Beinart

• Autore: Taylor Julie J (Julie Jennifer), <1980->
• Pubblicazione: Basel, Switzerland : , : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 266 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 333.72096881
• Soggetto topico: Land use - Namibia - Caprivi; Kxoe (African people) - Namibia - Caprivi; Environmental protection - Namibia - Caprivi; Nature conservation - Namibia - Caprivi
• Persona (resp. second.): BeinartWilliam
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. - Oxford) under the title: Naming the land. Identity, authority and environment in Namibia's West Caprivi.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction and methodology. Objectives and structure; Reasons for the study; Objectives; Questions and themes; Structure of the study ; Research methods; Being initiated into local politics; Theoretical and methodological approaches; The dynamics of working through an NGO; Participant observation and informal interaction; Researching khwe : agency, difference and the moral economy of inequality; Interviews; Ethics and advocacy; Analysis of texts; Terminology, orthography and footnote style ; Conclusion -- Identity, authority and CBNRM. Community based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Southern Africa; The rise of the 'New conservation' in Southern Africa; Critiques of CBNRM and addressing the politics of authority and identity; CBNRM in Namibia; Critiques of the conservancy programme ; Maps, power-knowledge and representation; The rise of geographic information systems; Social theorists on GIS : a new hegemonie technology?; ; GIS for empowerment, and the rise of participatory GIS; Indigenous people's countermapping ; Conclusions -- Differentiating 'Bushmen' from 'Bantus' : identity in West Caprivi, 1930-1989. Ethnic relations and socio-political change in the pre-colonial and early colonial periods ; State contributions to the construction of ethnicity, 1930-1989; Veterinary control, border guards and political authority; The Khwe military identity ; Conclusion -- The politics of land, leadership and identity 1990-2006. Struggles over land, leadership and natural resources since independence; Impoverishment and exclusion among the Khwe; Chief Mbambo and the Khwe traditional authority ; Ethnic contestations over land; The case of N//goavaca campsite ; Tracing political exclusion : discourses on Khwe 'Subversion'; The secessionist movement and the angolan war; Ethnicity, authority and NGOs : recipes for 'Tribalism' ; Conclusion -- ; Chiefs, chairmen and the politics of CBNRM, 1995-2006. Possibility and disillusion : the rise of CBNRM; Marginalisation, strategisation and identity; 'Development' at last? The struggle for Kyaramacan association ; CBNRM, traditional authorities and the politics of hunting, 2006; The election of a New Khwe chief; West caprivi's trophy hunting concessions; Kyaramacan association and the Khwe traditional authority; More resources, more exclusion? contestations over meat distribution ; Keeping kyaramacan qut of ethnic 'Politics' : NGO-Government relations ; Conclusion -- CBNRM meets countermapping : Khwe-NGO mapping, 1998-2006. Indigenous rights, environmental discourses, and mapping technologies; San countermapping in southern Africa; Maps and GIS in Namibian CBNRM discourse; Transnational NGO networks and Khwe interests in mapping ; Mapping West Caprivi : exclusion, visibility and 'Depoliticisation'; ; Negotiating boundaries, zones and legibility in the park; No such place as West Caprivi : visibility and the ethnic politics of toponyms; Mbukushu exclusion and IRDNC's 'Depoliticisation'; Social and technical disruptions of the power to name ; Conclusions -- Conclusion : San, NGOs and the state. Khwe relationships with the state ; Khwe relationships to NGOs ; NGO relationships with the state ; CBNRM and mapping, governmentality and visibility ; The problem of tndigeneity' : implications for NGO policy and CBNRM; Mapping, ethnicity and NGO approaches in Ngamiland, Botswana ; The future -- Timeline of the evolution of CNBRM in Namibia -- Key policy and legal instruments for CBNRM in Namibia -- ; List of acronyms -- ; List of figures and photographs -- ; Sources -- ; Bibliography -- ; Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Naming the land
• ISBN: 3-905758-53-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788200403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Basel Namibia studies series ; ; 12.