Reclaiming African Environmentalism: Ecological Struggles for Wellbeing and Habitability

The authors of Reclaiming African Environmentalism make the case that the relationships that indigenous and other marginalized minorities have formed with the land must be the primary considerations when planning and protecting Africa's overall economic and ecological well-being. CONTENTS: Introduction―the Editors. PROPERTY AND THE COMMONS. Neoliberalism and Pastoralism: Two Competing Visions of the Same Land at a Time of Climate Crisis in Kenya―M. Mugambi. Collusion and Conflict: Navigating the Gap Between Law, Policy, and Reality in the Utilization and Management of Wetlands―E. Sigauke. Contested Forests: Claims and Meanings of Property Around Gwayi Forest, Zimbabwe―M. Malandu and F. Matose. Rural Modernization Through Commercial Monocrops: Thingification of Nature, Relationships, and Personhood in the Lugela District, Mozambique―A. Matusse. Monograph of a Forest Carbon Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Wildlife Works Carbon LLC vs. Ngongo Basengele Community―G.P. Dkamela. EXTRACTION AND WASTE. State, NGOs, and the Extractivism in Forest Conservation―T. Mushonga. Twins or Rivals? The Farm and the Gold Mine in Western Ghana―D.A.K. Tumawu. Windscapes: Frontiers of Green Energy Capital Accumulation in South Africa―M. Pressend. Fracturing Contested Landscapes: Tracking Natural Gas Prospectors and the Speculative Price of Enacting Standing Reserves in the Kalahari Desert―P.L. du Plessis. GRIEVING, RECLAIMING, AND DEFENDING EARLY RELATIONS. The Water Healer with No Water―K. Sello. Restoring the Earth: Literary Narrative and African Environmental Struggles―B. Klein. “Technology Changes Everything”: Benefits and Losses of Biotechnology―N. Phakisi-Portas. The Battle for the Soul of Xholobeni: What is the Land and Why is it Important for AmaMpondo?―S. Zukulu. Infrastructure Paradoxes of the Kuils River in Cape Town, South Africa―N. Solomon. Conclusion―A. Matusse, N. Solomon, F. Matose, and L. Green.
ASIN: 0796926905
VSKU: BVV.0796926905.G
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Author/Artist:Green, Lesley|Matose, Frank|Solomon, Nikiwe|Matusse, Anselmo
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