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Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa: Poetics and Politics of Exploitation book cover

1st Edition

Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa Poetics and Politics of Exploitation

Edited By James Ogude, Tafadzwa Mushonga Copyright 2023
208 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book brings together perspectives on resource exploitation to expose the continued environmental and socio-political concerns in post-colonial Africa. The continent is host to a myriad of environmental issues, largely resulting from its rich diversity of natural resources that have been historically subjected to exploitation. Colonial patterns of resource use and capital accumulation... Read more

1. Introduction: The intractable problem: Africa and the pitfalls of resource exploitation in a globalising world

James Ogude and Tafadzwa Mushonga

2. Petitioning the future through environmental justice: A reading from Angola

Catarina Antunes Gomes

3. African Goats, the State and conservation in colonial Zimbabwe, 1892 -1970s

Elijah Doro

4. The politics of exclusion and violence in protected areas

Tafadzwa Mushonga

5. The politics of mining pollution in Zambia: Investigating 100 years of environmental management in the Copperbelt

Chibamba Jennifer Chansa

6. "Aesthetics of the Earth": African Literature as a witness to postcolonial ecology

James Ogude

7. ‘One in heart as they are in tongue’: ‘Yoruba’, land and environmental violence in colonial southwestern Nigeria

Ayodeji Wakil Adegbite

8. A Revaluation of traditional ecological thoughts, knowledge and practices of the Aari of southern Ethiopia

Endalkachew Hailu Guluma and Zewde Jagre Dantamo

9. Climate injustice: How it is affecting Africa

Dismas, A. Masolo

10. International environment law, the humanities nexus and some reflections on ‘creative legal solutions’

George Odera Outa

11. Carbon dioxide, climate change, and an energy transition for a future Africa

Emil Roduner and Egmont R. Rohwer

12. Poetics and politics of resource exploitation in Africa: Insights from chapters

James Ogude and Tafadzwa Mushonga

Biography

James Ogude is the Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Tafadzwa Mushonga is a research fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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