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Title:Contested ecologies: dialogues in the South on nature and knowledge
Author:Green, LesleyISNI
Year:2013
Pages:284
Language:English
City of publisher:Cape Town
Publisher:HSRC Press
ISBN:9780796924308; 9780796924292; 0796924287; 9780796924285
Geographic term:Southern Africa
Subjects:environment
ecology
natural history
indigenous knowledge
science
External link:https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/contested-ecologies
Abstract:This collective volume evolved from a two-year research seminar on contests over ecologies in southern Africa, Latin America and Australia. The product of three writing workshops over that period and visits by writers from further afield, the book offers a suite of Southern chapters that attend to contests over notions of 'nature', science, and environment - without relying on the notion of cultural difference, or on an indigenous knowlegde / science divide. After the introductory article Contested ecologies: nature and knowledge (Lesley Green), contributions on Africa include: On animism, modernity/colonialism, and the African order of knowledge: provisional reflections (Harry Garuba); Cultivating 'krag', refreshing 'gees': ecologies of wellbeing in Namaqualand (South Africa, Joshua B. Cohen); Are petitioners makers of rain? Rains, worlds and survival in conflict-torn Buhera, Zimbabwe (Artwell Nhemachena); Metaphors for climate adaptation from Zimbabwe: Zephaniah Phiri Maseko and the marriage of water and soil (Christopher Mabeza); Cape flats nature: rethinking urban ecologies (South Africa, Tania Katzschner); Spotting the leopard: fieldwork, science and leopard behaviour (Ian Glenn). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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