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Author Lenggenhager, Luregn, author.

Title Ruling nature, controlling people : nature conservation, development and war in North-Eastern Namibia since the 1920s / Luregn Lenggenhager
Published Basel : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (282 pages)
Series Basel Namibia studies series, 2234-9561 ; 19
Basel Namibia studies series ; 19.
Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Historiographical Landscapes; South Africa; Namibia; The Caprivi Strip; Nature (and Space) as a Field of Historical Research; Constituting an Archive of the Caprivi; Interviews; Informal Discussions and Observations; Archival Material; Ethnic Terminology; Structure of the Book; 2. Nature and Development before 1965; Creating an Image of Abundant Nature and Peace; The Power of Game: Chiefs and Local Knowledge; Early Descriptions of the Caprivi's Nature and German Colonial Visions
What to Do with the Caprivi? 1915-1939Becoming Part of the "Dark Areas" -- Early South African Rule over Northern Namibia; A Time of 'Freedom'? Life under the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1921-1929; From SWAA Rule to Direct South African Control of the Eastern Caprivi, 1929-1939; Leslie Trollope and the Caprivi's 'Distinctiveness', 1939-1952; The Caprivi as an Oddity?; Putting Caprivi on South Africa's Map, 1945-1966; International and Regional Politics; South African Development Strategies in Northern Namibia; Heralding Change in the Caprivi, 1950s; Odendaal Commission, 1962-1964
The "Grand Tradition" of Commissions of Inquiry and the 'Racial Question'Public Hearings in Katima Mulilo, 1963; The Caprivi in the Aftermath of the Odendaal Commission; Planning the Eastern Caprivi; Planning the Western Caprivi; Summarising Early South African Rule; 3. Nature and War (1965-1980s); Geographies of Science, Nature and War; Environmental Science, Power and Space; The Namibian War of Liberation in the Caprivi; Towards a Caprivi Homeland; Living and Working in the Caprivi; Working in Forestry, Fishery and Nature Conservation
Small-town Life and the Love for Nature -- Remembering 'White Katima Mulilo'Educating Employees; Being an Expert?; Protecting Rivers and Forests; Protecting Rivers: Controlling Salvinia Molesta; Forestry and the Introduction of the Eucalyptus; Making Use of 'Indigenous' Forests; Summarising Environmental Interventions in the Context of War; 4. Wildlife and War (1975-1990); The Diminishing Wildlife Populations in the Caprivi; From the Protection of Huntable Game to the Preservation of Endangered Species; The SADF and the Shooting of Wildlife; Who Was to Blame?; Saving Wildlife?
The Recruitment of Game GuardsProducing Reports, Surveys and Maps for Nature Conservation; Military Surveillance and Wildlife Protection; Mutual Practices of the Civil Administration and the SADF; The Proclamation of National Parks in the 1980s; Politics and War in the 1980s; The End of the Eastern Caprivi Homeland; Promoting Nature Conservation and Tourism as the Caprivi's Future; Proclaiming the Nkasa-Lupala (Mamili) and Mudumu National Parks; Towards Post-colonial Wildlife Conservation; 5. Nature and Peace?; The Caprivi after Independence; Conflicts in the Post-independence Era
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 27, 2018)
Subject Nature conservation -- Namibia -- History
Nature conservation -- Political aspects -- Namibia
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa.
Nature conservation
Nature conservation -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Caprivi (Namibia) -- History
Subject Namibia
Namibia -- Caprivi
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783906927015
3906927016