New Notes on Kaoko
Title | New Notes on Kaoko PDF eBook |
Author | Giorgio Miescher |
Publisher | BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9783905141740 |
Tourism and Crisis
Title | Tourism and Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Gustav Visser |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 218 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0415533767 |
This book analyses the relationship between tourism and crises ranging from dramatic acts of terror to natural disasters, as well as the most significant economic recession since the late 1920s. The volume focuses on the roles and potential of tourism for development and relations between tourism, environment and broad global process of change at different levels of analysis, highlighting different types of "crisis". In particular it questions the general conviction that tourism-led development is a sustainable and necessarily solid platform from which to develop local, national and regional economies from a range of perspectives.
African Landscapes
Title | African Landscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Bollig |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 520 |
Release | 2009-06-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0387786821 |
Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development of culture and society, as well as the ways that natural landscapes themselves are the product of historical and cultural processes. Most previous studies of the landscape selectively focused on either the natural sciences or the social sciences, but the research presented in African Landscapes bridges that gap. This work is unique in its interdisciplinary scope. Over the past twelve years, the contributors to this volume have participated in the collaborative research center ACACIA (Arid Climate Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa), which deals with the relationship between cultural processes and ecological dynamics in Africa’s arid areas. The case studies presented here come from mainly Sahara/Sahel and southwestern Africa, and are all linked to broader discussions on the concept of landscape, and themes of cultural, anthropological, geographical, botanical, sociological, and archaeological interest. The contributions in this work are enhanced by full color photographs that put the discussion in context visually.
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State
Title | Imagining the Post-Apartheid State PDF eBook |
Author | John T. Friedman |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2011-07-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0857450913 |
In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes.
Gender and Colonialism
Title | Gender and Colonialism PDF eBook |
Author | Lorena Rizzo |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2012-12-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3905758490 |
This book deals with colonialism on a Namibian periphery and considers both the German colonial period as well as South African rule in the country. The marginality of the Kaoko region within this colonial topography of power is analysed as a dynamic and fractured feature where power relations and constellations remained highly contested. The dynamics of gender within a regional society constituted of men and women, African and European, receive special attention within frameworks engaging with colonial photography, oral histories and gendered visions.
Political Ecology of Tourism
Title | Political Ecology of Tourism PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Mostafanezhad |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 2016-01-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 131750934X |
Why has political ecology been assigned so little attention in tourism studies, despite its broad and critical interrogation of environment and politics? As the first full-length treatment of a political ecology of tourism, the collection addresses this lacuna and calls for the further establishment of this emerging interdisciplinary subfield. Drawing on recent trends in geography, anthropology, and environmental and tourism studies, Political Ecology of Tourism: Communities, Power and the Environment employs a political ecology approach to the analysis of tourism through three interrelated themes: Communities and Power, Conservation and Control, and Development and Conflict. While geographically broad in scope—with chapters that span Central and South America to Africa, and South, Southeast, and East Asia to Europe and Greenland—the collection illustrates how tourism-related environmental challenges are shared across prodigious geographical distances, while also attending to the nuanced ways they materialize in local contexts and therefore demand the historically situated, place-based and multi-scalar approach of political ecology. This collection advances our understanding of the role of political, economic and environmental concerns in tourism practice. It offers readers a political ecology framework from which to address tourism-related issues and themes such as development, identity politics, environmental subjectivities, environmental degradation, land and resources conflict, and indigenous ecologies. Finally, the collection is bookended by a pair of essays from two of the most distinguished scholars working in the subfield: Rosaleen Duffy (foreword) and James Igoe (afterword). This collection will be valuable reading for scholars and practitioners alike who share a critical interest in the intersection of tourism, politics and the environment
Ruling Nature, Controlling People
Title | Ruling Nature, Controlling People PDF eBook |
Author | Luregn Lenggenhager |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2018-09-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3906927016 |
Recent nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa such as communal conservancies and peace parks are often embedded in narratives of economic development and ecological research. They are also increasingly marked by militarisation and violence. In Ruling Nature, Controlling People, Luregn Lenggenhager shows that these features were also characteristic of South African rule over the Caprivi Strip region in North-Eastern Namibia, especially in the fields of forestry, fisheries and, ultimately, wildlife conservation. In the process, the increasingly internationalised war in the region from the late 1960s until Namibias independence in 1990 became intricately interlinked with contemporary nature conservation, ecology and economic development projects. By retracing such interdependencies, Lenggenhager provides a novel perspective from which to examine the history of a region which has until now barely entered the focus of historical research. He thereby highlights the enduring relevance of the supposedly peripheral Caprivi and its military, scientific and environmental histories for efforts to develop a deeper understanding of the ways in which apartheid South Africa exerted state power.