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A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.
Table des matières
I. Introduction; 1. Doing research on a changing savannah landscape; II. The evolution of pre-colonial environmental infrastructures; 2. The prehistory of North-western Namibia and the riddled emergence of pastoralism; 3. Elephants and humans in the late 19th and early 20th century; III. Encapsulation and pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s; 4. Scientist, cartographers, photographers and the establishment of western knowledge of the Kaokofeld; 5. The establishment of colonial administration and the re-immigration of pastoralists into the Kaokoveld - 1900s to 1920s; 6. The politics of encapsulation: game protection, instituting borders and controlling mobility; IV. The state, intervention, and local appropriations between 1950s and 1980s; 7. A hydrological revolution in an African savannah; 8.Conservation and poaching in the 1970s and 1980s; V. Dynamics of social-ecological relations between the 1990s and the present; 9: Pastoralism, environmental infrastructures and state-local society relations in the late 20th and early 21st century; 10. The establishment of "new commons" by government decree; 11. Into the future - envisioning, planning and negotiating environmental infrastructures; VI. Theorizing time, space, and change in a pastoral system; 12. The changing environmental infrastructure of the north-western Namibian savannah
A propos de l'auteur
Michael Bollig is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne where his key interests lie in the environmental anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa. His current research projects focus on the social-ecological dynamics connected to large-scale conservation projects, the commodification of nature and the political ecology of pastoralism. He is the author of Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment (2006), co-author of African Landscapes (2009) with O. Bubenzer, Pastoralism in Africa (2013) with M. Schnegg and H.P. Wotzka, and Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs (2017) with D. Anderson.
