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An African Anthropocene

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Bender Matthew . Water Brings No Harm: Management Knowledge and the Struggle for the Waters of Kilimanjaro. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. 352 pp. List of Illustrations. Abbreviations. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.74. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821423592.

Keough Sara Beth and Youngstedt Scott . Water, Life, and Profit: Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger. New York: Berghahn, 2020. 188 pp. List of Figures and Tables. References. Index. $135.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1789203370.

Bollig Michael . Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 404 pp. List of Figures. List of Maps. List of Tables. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1108488488.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2022

Emily Brownell*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK emily.brownell@ed.ac.uk

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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the African Studies Association

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Notes

1. A few examples include: Baptista, Idalina, “‘We Live on Estimates’: Everyday Practices of Prepaid Electricity and the Urban Condition in Maputo, Mozambique” (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39 (5): 1004–19)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Degani, Michael, “Shock Humor: Zaniness and the Freedom of Permanent Improvisation in Urban Tanzania” (Cultural Anthropology 33 (3): 473–98CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and von Schnitzler, Antina, Democracy’s Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid (Reprint edition. Princeton University Press, 2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2. Sanderson, Eric W. “Opinion | Let Water Go Where It Wants to Go” (The New York Times, September 28, 2021, sec. Opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/opinion/hurricane-ida-new-york-city.html).