Book contents
- Shaping the African Savannah
- African Studies Series
- Shaping the African Savannah
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 The Evolution of Pre-Colonial Environmental Infrastructure
- Part 3 Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s
- 4 Scientists, Cartographers, Photographers, and the Establishment of Western Knowledge of the Kaokoveld
- 5 The Establishment of Colonial Administration and the Re-establishment of a Pastoral Livelihood
- 6 The Politics of Encapsulation: Game Protection, Instituting Borders, and Controlling Mobility
- Part 4 The State, Intervention, and Local Appropriations between the 1950s and 1980s
- Part 5 Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present
- Part 6 Theorising Time, Space, and Change in a Pastoral System
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
6 - The Politics of Encapsulation: Game Protection, Instituting Borders, and Controlling Mobility
from Part 3 - Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2020
Book contents
- Shaping the African Savannah
- African Studies Series
- Shaping the African Savannah
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 The Evolution of Pre-Colonial Environmental Infrastructure
- Part 3 Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s
- 4 Scientists, Cartographers, Photographers, and the Establishment of Western Knowledge of the Kaokoveld
- 5 The Establishment of Colonial Administration and the Re-establishment of a Pastoral Livelihood
- 6 The Politics of Encapsulation: Game Protection, Instituting Borders, and Controlling Mobility
- Part 4 The State, Intervention, and Local Appropriations between the 1950s and 1980s
- Part 5 Dynamics of Social-Ecological Relations between the 1990s and the Present
- Part 6 Theorising Time, Space, and Change in a Pastoral System
- Bibliography
- Index
- African Studies Series
Summary
Chapter 6 details how the administration since the mid 1920s sought to encapsulate north-western Namibia. Boundaries were enforced and wide no-man's lands were established to prevent cross-boundary mobility: mobility into southern Angola, mobility into the western margins of the Cuvelai delta, and mobility to the south. The encapsulation of north-west Namibia went along with enforced measures of veterinary control and trade restrictions: herders were forcefully confined to subsistence pastoralism and the spatial reach was massively restricted.
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- Shaping the African SavannahFrom Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia, pp. 106 - 150Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020