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1 - Doing Research on a Changing Savannah Landscape

from Part 1 - Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2020

Michael Bollig
Affiliation:
University of Cologne
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This introductory chapter sketches the key research questions: How do changing social-ecological relations and an increasing impact of non-local actors impact the savannah landscape of north-western Namibia? The chapter links the contents of the book with three paradigms: new materialism, environmental history, and political ecology. The chapter also introduces the lead-concept environmental infrastructure and discusses its merits for the study of landscape transformations. The introductory chapter also discusses twenty years of research on north-western Namibia and Himba and Herero pastoralists.

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Shaping the African Savannah
From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia
, pp. 3 - 18
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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