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Book Ruling Nature  Controlling People

Download or read book Ruling Nature Controlling People written by Luregn Lenggenhager and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2018 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa such as communal conservancies and peace parks are often embedded in narratives of economic development and ecological research. They are also increasingly marked by militarisation and violence. In Ruling Nature, Controlling People, Luregn Lenggenhager shows that these features were also characteristic of South African rule over the Caprivi Strip region in North-Eastern Namibia, especially in the fields of forestry, fisheries and, ultimately, wildlife conservation. In the process, the increasingly internationalised war in the region from the late 1960s until Namibia’s independence in 1990 became intricately interlinked with contemporary nature conservation, ecology and economic development projects. By retracing such interdependencies, Lenggenhager provides a novel perspective from which to examine the history of a region which has until now barely entered the focus of historical research. He thereby highlights the enduring relevance of the supposedly peripheral Caprivi and its military, scientific and environmental histories for efforts to develop a deeper understanding of the ways in which apartheid South Africa exerted state power.

Book Naming the Land

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  • Author : J. Taylor
  • Publisher : African Books Collective
  • Release : 2012-12-29
  • ISBN : 3905758539
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Naming the Land written by J. Taylor and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012-12-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book encompasses a history of identity-building amongst Khwe San people, and of contestations for authority over land and natural resources in Namibias West Caprivi. The politics of authority in this contested borderland area were significantly shaped by state and NGO interventions into local institutions and land use between the late 1930s and 2006. Julie J. Taylor pays close attention to the role of NGOs in these processes. She shows that, in their relationship with West Caprivis residents, NGOs unintentionally contributed towards the hardening and politicising of ethnic difference, including through the implementation of land mapping projects. At the same time, in their relationship with the state, NGOs often worked to depoliticise struggles over authority, thus inadvertently reinforcing the states authority in the area.

Book The Shade of New Leaves

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  • Author : Manfred O. Hinz
  • Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9783825892838
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book The Shade of New Leaves written by Manfred O. Hinz and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Omudile muua ohapo; epangelo liua ohamba". Freely translated, this proverb of the Ovakwanyama of northern Namibia means: "New leaves produce a good shade; the laws of a king are always as good as new". The proverb paints a picture of wisdom to express the dialectical relationship between continuity and change in customary law. Since royal orders are supposed not to change from one king to the next, they are always as good as new, reads the explanatory note to the proverb by the anthropologist Loeb, who recorded the proverb. Traditional authority is like a tree standing on its roots, rooted in the tradition created by the ancestors of the ruler and the community. These roots remain firm, stable and unchanged, not so the concrete manifestation of authority that changes and responds to changes of the environment. This makes that new leaves are produced by the rooted tree. The new leaves are new and old. They are old, because in structure, colour and their capacity to protect by giving shade, they are more or less like the leaves of last year and the year before; they are new because they react to the challenge of seasons. The Shade of New Leaves emerged out of an international conference on the living reality of customary law and traditional governance held in Windhoek in 2004. The conference was organised by the Centre for Applied Social Sciences and the Human Rights and Documentation Centre, both affiliated to the Faculty of Law of the University of Namibia, in co-operation with the Law Departments of the Universities of Bremen, Germany, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The contributions to this book are grouped into six parts: Part 1: Legal pluralism, traditional governance and the challenge of the democratic constitutional order * Part 2: Traditional administration of justice revisited * Part 3: Ascertaining customary law: prerequisite of good governance in traditional authority * Part 4: Legal philosophy, African philosophy and African jurisprudence * Part 5: Research, training and teaching of customary law * Part 6: Afterthoughts

Book The Missionary Herald

Download or read book The Missionary Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1828-1934 contain the Proceedings at large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Book The Missionary Herald

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  • Author : American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1823
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Missionary Herald written by American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parliamentary Debates

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Thomas C. Hansard and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 1862 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Chosen  Commander in Chief

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  • Author : Judith M. Galloway
  • Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
  • Release : 2015-08
  • ISBN : 0692458298
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book Chosen Commander in Chief written by Judith M. Galloway and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republican party is looking for a presidential candidate who will capture the public's imagination. Enter Brigadier General Rachel Ryland, USAF, retired -- currently serving in the U.S. Senate. Appointed to her husband's senate seat after he is killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, Senator Ryland is a thirty year veteran with extensive experience in foreign policy and strategic planning. When asked to run for president, will she accept? If she runs, can she win? How does her military background make her uniquely qualified to be commander in chief at this time in U.S. history?

Book Challenging Authorities

Download or read book Challenging Authorities written by Arne S. Steinforth and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact—knowledge accepted as true—derives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social category. Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array of insights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, and even outright competition between different postulated authorities. The contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways in which authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa, investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thus highlighting the specificities and pluralities in ‘modern’ societies. This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding power and authority in the context of (post)colonial states (neo)traditional authority, claiming space, conflict and (in)justice, and contestations of knowledge. It offers in-depth critical analyses of ethnographic data that put contemporary African phenomena on equal footing with current controversies in North America, Europe, and other global settings.

Book The Western Literary Messenger

Download or read book The Western Literary Messenger written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forest and Stream

Download or read book Forest and Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Farmer s Magazine

Download or read book The Farmer s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century written by Jost Dülffer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonization changed the spatial order of the globe, the imagination of men and women around the world and established images of the globe. Both individuals and social groups shaped decolonization itself: this volume puts agency squarely at the centre of debate by looking at elites and leaders who changed the course of history across the world.

Book American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine

Download or read book American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drums of Change  Women of the West Book  12

Download or read book Drums of Change Women of the West Book 12 written by Janette Oke and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indian girl is forced to go to a reservation with her people where she is confused by the white people's culture and their God.

Book Child Life

Download or read book Child Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Condition of the Indian Tribes

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Joint Special Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Indian Tribes
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1867
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book Condition of the Indian Tribes written by United States. Congress. Joint Special Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Indian Tribes and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Condition of the Indian Tribes

Download or read book Condition of the Indian Tribes written by United States. Congress. Joint Special Committee and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (38) S. 188.