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245 00 a| Reclaiming African environmentalism :b| ecological struggles for well-being and habitability /c| edited by Lesley Green, Frank Matose, Anselmo Matusse and Nikwe Solomon..;

264 1 a| Cape Town, South Africa :b| HSRC Press,c| 2025.;

264 2 a| [Boulder, Colorado] :b| Distributed worldwide (except central and southern Africa) by Lynn Rienner Publishers, Inc.;

300 a| xii, 292 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| textb| txt2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediatedb| n2| rdamedia;

338 a| volumeb| nc2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 2 a| Part 1. Property and the commons -- Part 2. Extraction and waste -- Part 3. Grieving, reclaiming and defending earthly relations.;

520 a| "African Doctoral and Masters researchers in Environmental Humanities, in the past 6 years, working in Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Burundi, Ghana, Tanzania, Lesotho, Kenya, and DR Congo have consistently and independently come up against a similar story: that struggles in rural Africa are against neoliberal ideas of market-driven development, and neoliberal notions of environmentalism, that have proven fundamentally at odds with both economic and ecological wellbeing. Building on Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge (HSRC 2013; 275 citations to date), this volume develops an approach that identifies the ways in which environment and society is conceptualized by development 'experts', environmentalists and state officials, and contrasts those conceptualizations with understandings of ecology and wellbeing at ground level. No comparable work on this topic has been done across ten African countries. Drawing on in-depth field research by African graduates, many of whom have pursued field research in their home languages, the collection makes a sustained and powerful case that local people's struggles for livelihood have intensified against globalized corporate extractivism across the continent. Individual papers describe struggles over soil, mining, water, seed, pastoralism, energy, technology, forestry, and carbon trading. Linking African struggles to Latin American rejection of extractivism and South Asian resistance to industrial agriculture and monocropping, the collection will be the first of its kind to make the case that indigenous and other political minorities' forms of relation to land are vital resources for the protection of African ecological wellbeing and that they define contemporary African environmentalism that makes a crucial contribution to rethinking and re-storying climate negotiations, conservation, and development."--c| Provided by publisher.;

545 0 a| Lesley Green is a Professor of Earth Politics and Director of Environmental Humanities South at the. University of Cape Town. Frank Matose is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. Anselmo Matusse works as a Research officer at the Environmental Humanities South, University of CapeTown, within the Critical Zones Africa project funded by Science for Africa. Nikiwe Solomon is an environmental anthropologist specializing in the intersection of science, technology, politics, and urban water management.;

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Reclaiming African environmentalism : ecological struggles for well-being and habitability / edited by Lesley Green, Frank Matose, Anselmo Matusse and Nikwe Solomon.

Format	Book
Publication	Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2025.
Distribution	[Boulder, Colorado] : Distributed worldwide (except central and southern Africa) by Lynn Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	xii, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects	Environmentalism--Africa. Environmentalism--Social aspects. --Africa. Environmentalism--Economic aspects. --Africa.

Other author/creator	Green, Lesley, 1967- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqJXqf9hYY3GHkytf4Ymq
Other author/creator	Matose, Frank, editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqVCRTTGKvrf9kM4HGpKd
Other author/creator	Matusse, Anselmo, editor.
Other author/creator	Solomon, Nikwe, editor.
Partial contents	Part 1. Property and the commons -- Part 2. Extraction and waste -- Part 3. Grieving, reclaiming and defending earthly relations.
Abstract	"African Doctoral and Masters researchers in Environmental Humanities, in the past 6 years, working in Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Burundi, Ghana, Tanzania, Lesotho, Kenya, and DR Congo have consistently and independently come up against a similar story: that struggles in rural Africa are against neoliberal ideas of market-driven development, and neoliberal notions of environmentalism, that have proven fundamentally at odds with both economic and ecological wellbeing. Building on Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge (HSRC 2013; 275 citations to date), this volume develops an approach that identifies the ways in which environment and society is conceptualized by development 'experts', environmentalists and state officials, and contrasts those conceptualizations with understandings of ecology and wellbeing at ground level. No comparable work on this topic has been done across ten African countries. Drawing on in-depth field research by African graduates, many of whom have pursued field research in their home languages, the collection makes a sustained and powerful case that local people's struggles for livelihood have intensified against globalized corporate extractivism across the continent. Individual papers describe struggles over soil, mining, water, seed, pastoralism, energy, technology, forestry, and carbon trading. Linking African struggles to Latin American rejection of extractivism and South Asian resistance to industrial agriculture and monocropping, the collection will be the first of its kind to make the case that indigenous and other political minorities' forms of relation to land are vital resources for the protection of African ecological wellbeing and that they define contemporary African environmentalism that makes a crucial contribution to rethinking and re-storying climate negotiations, conservation, and development."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biographical note	Lesley Green is a Professor of Earth Politics and Director of Environmental Humanities South at the. University of Cape Town. Frank Matose is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. Anselmo Matusse works as a Research officer at the Environmental Humanities South, University of CapeTown, within the Critical Zones Africa project funded by Science for Africa. Nikiwe Solomon is an environmental anthropologist specializing in the intersection of science, technology, politics, and urban water management.
ISBN	9780796926906
ISBN	0796926905 paperback

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