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Naming the land : San identity and community conservation in Namibia's West Caprivi /
This book encompasses a history of identity-building amongst Khwe San people, and of contestations for authority over land and natural resources in Namibia's West Caprivi. The politics of authority in this contested borderland area were significantly shaped by state and NGO interventions into l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basel, Switzerland :
Basler Afrika Bibliographien,
2012.
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| Colección: | Basel Namibia studies series ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; The Fortunes and Fragility of Community Conservation: An Introduction; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction and Methodology; Objectives and Structure; Reasons for the study; Objectives; Questions and Themes; Structure of the Study; Research Methods; Being Initiated into Local Politics; Theoretical and Methodological Approaches; The Dynamics of Working through an NGO; Participant Observation and Informal Interaction; Researching Khwe: Agency, Difference and the Moral Economy of Inequality; Interviews; Ethics and Advocacy; Analysis of Texts.
- Terminology, Orthography and Footnote StyleConclusion; 2 Identity, Authority and CBNRM; Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Southern Africa; The Rise of the 'New Conservation' in Southern Africa; Critiques of CBNRM and Addressing the Politics of Authority and Identity; CBNRM in Namibia; Critiques of the Conservancy Programme; Maps, Power-knowledge and Representation; The Rise of Geographic Information Systems; Social Theorists on GIS: A New Hegemonic Technology?; GIS for Empowerment, and the Rise of Participatory GIS; Indigenous People's Countermapping; Conclusions.
- 3 Differentiating ""Bushmen"" from ""Bantus: Identity in WEst Caprivi, 1930-1989 Ethnic Relations and Socio-political Change in the Pre-colonial and Early Colonial PeriodsState Contributions to the Construction of Ethnicity, 1930-1989; Veterinary Control, Border Guards and Political Authority; The Khwe Military Identity; Conclusion; 4 The Politics of Land, Leadership and Identity 1990-2006; Struggles over Land, Leadership and Natural Resources since Indepen dence; Impoverishment and Exclusion among the Khwe; Chief Mbambo and the Khwe Traditional Authority; Ethnic Contestations over Land.
- The Case of N//goavaca CampsiteTracing Political Exclusion: Discourses on Khwe 'Subversion'; The Secessionist Movement and the Angolan War; Ethnicity, Authority and NGOs: Recipes for 'Tribalism'; Conclusion; 5 Chiefs, Chairmen and the Politics of CBNRM, 1995-2006; Possibility and Disillusion: The Rise of CBNRM; Marginalisation, Strategisation and Identity; 'Development' at Last? The Struggle for Kyaramacan Association; CBNRM, Traditional Authorities and the Politics of Hunting, 2006; The Election of a New Khwe Chief; West Caprivi's Trophy Hunting Concessions.
- Kyaramacan Association and the Khwe Traditional AuthorityMore Resources, More Exclusion? Contestations over Meat Distribution; Keeping Kyaramacan Out of Ethnic 'Politics': NGO-Government Relations; Conclusion; 6 CBNRM meets Countermapping: Khwe-NGO Mapping, 1998-2006; Indigenous Rights, Environmental Discourses, and Mapping Technologies; San Countermapping in Southern Africa; Maps and GIS in Namibian CBNRM Discourse; Transnational NGO Networks and Khwe Interests in Mapping; Mapping West Caprivi: Exclusion, Visibility and 'Depoliticisation'