Reclaiming African Environmentalism (Paperback)

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, Kenya—M. Mugambi.When Law and Policy Fail to Meet Reality: Exploring Environmental Conflicts in the Utilization and Management of Marlborough Wetland, Harare, Zimbabwe—E. Sigauke.Contested Forests: Claims and Meanings of Property Around Gwayi Forest, Zimbabwe—M. Malandu and F. Matose.Plantationocene in Lugela District: Reclaiming Nature, Relations and Personhood Amid Growing Neo-Extractive Capture in Contemporary Mozambique—A. Matusse.Forest Carbon Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Wildlife Works Carbon LLC vs. Ngongo Basengele Community—G. Dkamela.EXTRACTION AND WASTE.State, NGOs, and the Extractive Nature of the Conservation Industry in Zimbabwe—T. Mushonga.Land Transformation and Dispossession: The Case of Farming and Extractive Gold Mining in Western Ghana—K. Tumawu.Hacking Life: Electronic Waste Salvaging in Tanzania's Digital Age—S.M. Ntapanta.Windscapes: Frontiers of South Africa—M. Pressend.Fracturing Contested Landscapes: Resource Frontiers in the Kalahari, Botswana—P. 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”: Herbicides and Soil in the Eastern Cape, South Africa—N. Phakisi.The Battle for the Soul of Xholobeni Land, South Africa—S. Zukulu.The Paradox of Infrastructure: Technopolitics and Time on the Kuils River in Cape Town, South Africa—N. Solomon.Conclusion: Composing an African Environmental Humanities—the Editors.