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Conference paper | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Producing nature and poverty in Africa |
Editors: | Broch-Due, Vigdis Schroeder, Richard A. |
Chapter(s): | Present |
Year: | 2000 |
Pages: | 350 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Uppsala |
Publisher: | Nordiska Afrikainstitutet |
ISBN: | 9171064524 |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | 1997 poverty environment conference papers (form) |
Abstract: | Environmental programmes constitute one of the major forms of foreign and State intervention in contemporary African affairs. Drawing on case study materials from eight different countries, covering a range of different historical eras, themes, and encounters, the essays in this anthology, originally produced for a conference on the politics of poverty and environmental interventions in Africa held in 1997, demonstrate that neither nature nor poverty is 'natural' but has been produced by discourses and activities, many of which have arisen in the Western world and been transplanted to Africa with unintended and sometimes disastrous results. The essays indicate that political engagement around environmental issues cannot afford to be historically shortsighted. They also indicate that environmental politics in Africa is far from overdetermined and that unpredictable political alliances have been, and will continue to be, struck between groups and individuals all along the local-to-global spectrum. Contributors: Tor A. Benjaminsen, Vigdis Broch-Due, Reginald Cline-Cole, James Fairhead, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Nina Johnsen, Cindi Katz, Kjersti Larsen, Melissa Leach, Roderick P. Neumann, Richard A. Schroeder, Wilhelm Östberg. |