Diana K Davis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 239101 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Diana K Davis |
| PRENOMES | Diana K |
| SOBRENOME | Davis |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIS D K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 176 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Decolonizing Veterinary History
Although nearly erased from history, the first formally trained South African veterinarian was the little-known Dr Jotello Festiri Soga (1865–1906), son of the Xhosa Reverend Tiyo Soga and his Scottish wife. By detailing Soga's remarkable trajectory, this paper helps to decolonize the history of veterinary medicine, long dominated by the ‘great deeds’ of a succession of white men, and only recently beginning to diversify. This sort of knowledge d…
Guillaume Blanc. L'Invention du colonialisme vert
Ecologies of the colonial present
Tree-planting has long been an obsession of postcolonial environmental governance. Never innocent of its imperial history, the practice persists in global regimes of forestry today. For over two centuries, afforestation has been viewed as a panacea for a variety of ills including civilizational decline, diminished precipitation, warming temperatures, soil erosion, and decreasing biodiversity. As a result, tree plantations, despite their demonstra…
Desertification
Desertification has generated a great deal of controversy since the term was coined nearly 100 years ago. Strongly informed by a long Anglo‐European history of thinking about desert regions and indigenous people, desertification most commonly conjures images of spreading deserts that threaten lives and livelihoods. This largely colonial notion, however, has been disproved as it has been shown repeatedly that deserts are not inexorably expanding. …
The Arid Lands
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered. Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts—a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven by perceptions of a looming crisis. In this book…
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
Les mythes environnementaux de la colonisation française au Maghreb
La thèse de ce livre est forte : la colonisation française de l’Afrique du Nord aurait donné naissance à un grand récit du changement environnemental qui se révéla une arme aussi efficace que les lois et les rapports de force économiques pour déposséder les indigènes algériens de leurs terres. Affirmant que l’Afrique du Nord aurait été le grenier à blé de Rome jusqu’aux invasions arabes du XIIe siècle, marquant l’introduction du nomadisme, de l’é…
Reflections on the American environment
Enclosing Nature in North Africa
Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmenta…
Power, Knowledge, and Environmental History in the Middle East and North Africa
To consider in what ways incorporating the emerging field of environmental history into studies of the Middle East challenges our views of the past and/or present, it is necessary first to take stock of our mainstream notions of the environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how we think it has changed over the last several thousand years. The most common received wisdom about the environment in the MENA is that it is an arid, mar…
Historical political ecology
Brutes, beasts and empire
Neoliberalism, environmentalism, and agricultural restructuring in Morocco
Neoliberal restructuring in Morocco has been taking place for over twenty years. Beginning with a decade of structural adjustment, from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, parts of the public sector have been privatized, state services such as health care and education reduced, tariffs lowered and exports heavily promoted. In the dryland agricultural areas, a declensionist colonial environmental narrative has been appropriated to help justify and…
Potential Forests
Indigenous knowledge and the desertification debate
Desert 'wastes' of the Maghreb
The origins of the word 'desertification', most commonly attributed to Aubréville's 1949 work on tropical African forests, may be traced back much earlier, to nineteenth-century French colonial North Africa. The concept of desertification was central to French colonial thinking about the North African environment. This paper argues that an environmental history of the Maghreb was constructed during the French colonial period which blamed local No…
Veterinary Geography as Interdisciplinary Research
The social context of working equines in the Urban Middle East
Neoliberalism, environmentalism, and agricultural restructuring in Morocco
Neoliberal restructuring in Morocco has been taking place for over twenty years. Beginning with a decade of structural adjustment, from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, parts of the public sector have been privatized, state services such as health care and education reduced, tariffs lowered and exports heavily promoted. In the dryland agricultural areas, a declensionist colonial environmental narrative has been appropriated to help justify and…
Indigenous knowledge and the desertification debate
Desert 'wastes' of the Maghreb
The origins of the word 'desertification', most commonly attributed to Aubréville's 1949 work on tropical African forests, may be traced back much earlier, to nineteenth-century French colonial North Africa. The concept of desertification was central to French colonial thinking about the North African environment. This paper argues that an environmental history of the Maghreb was constructed during the French colonial period which blamed local No…
Historical political ecology
Potential Forests
Ecologies of the colonial present
Tree-planting has long been an obsession of postcolonial environmental governance. Never innocent of its imperial history, the practice persists in global regimes of forestry today. For over two centuries, afforestation has been viewed as a panacea for a variety of ills including civilizational decline, diminished precipitation, warming temperatures, soil erosion, and decreasing biodiversity. As a result, tree plantations, despite their demonstra…
Power, Knowledge, and Environmental History in the Middle East and North Africa
To consider in what ways incorporating the emerging field of environmental history into studies of the Middle East challenges our views of the past and/or present, it is necessary first to take stock of our mainstream notions of the environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how we think it has changed over the last several thousand years. The most common received wisdom about the environment in the MENA is that it is an arid, mar…
Brutes, beasts and empire
Reflections on the American environment
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
The social context of working equines in the Urban Middle East
The social context of working equines in the Urban Middle East
Veterinary Geography as Interdisciplinary Research
Indigenous knowledge and the desertification debate
Desert 'wastes' of the Maghreb
The origins of the word 'desertification', most commonly attributed to Aubréville's 1949 work on tropical African forests, may be traced back much earlier, to nineteenth-century French colonial North Africa. The concept of desertification was central to French colonial thinking about the North African environment. This paper argues that an environmental history of the Maghreb was constructed during the French colonial period which blamed local No…
Potential Forests
Neoliberalism, environmentalism, and agricultural restructuring in Morocco
Neoliberal restructuring in Morocco has been taking place for over twenty years. Beginning with a decade of structural adjustment, from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, parts of the public sector have been privatized, state services such as health care and education reduced, tariffs lowered and exports heavily promoted. In the dryland agricultural areas, a declensionist colonial environmental narrative has been appropriated to help justify and…
Brutes, beasts and empire
Historical political ecology
Power, Knowledge, and Environmental History in the Middle East and North Africa
To consider in what ways incorporating the emerging field of environmental history into studies of the Middle East challenges our views of the past and/or present, it is necessary first to take stock of our mainstream notions of the environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how we think it has changed over the last several thousand years. The most common received wisdom about the environment in the MENA is that it is an arid, mar…
Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmenta…
Enclosing Nature in North Africa
Reflections on the American environment
Les mythes environnementaux de la colonisation française au Maghreb
La thèse de ce livre est forte : la colonisation française de l’Afrique du Nord aurait donné naissance à un grand récit du changement environnemental qui se révéla une arme aussi efficace que les lois et les rapports de force économiques pour déposséder les indigènes algériens de leurs terres. Affirmant que l’Afrique du Nord aurait été le grenier à blé de Rome jusqu’aux invasions arabes du XIIe siècle, marquant l’introduction du nomadisme, de l’é…
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
The Arid Lands
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered. Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts—a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven by perceptions of a looming crisis. In this book…
Desertification
Desertification has generated a great deal of controversy since the term was coined nearly 100 years ago. Strongly informed by a long Anglo‐European history of thinking about desert regions and indigenous people, desertification most commonly conjures images of spreading deserts that threaten lives and livelihoods. This largely colonial notion, however, has been disproved as it has been shown repeatedly that deserts are not inexorably expanding. …
Ecologies of the colonial present
Tree-planting has long been an obsession of postcolonial environmental governance. Never innocent of its imperial history, the practice persists in global regimes of forestry today. For over two centuries, afforestation has been viewed as a panacea for a variety of ills including civilizational decline, diminished precipitation, warming temperatures, soil erosion, and decreasing biodiversity. As a result, tree plantations, despite their demonstra…
Guillaume Blanc. L'Invention du colonialisme vert
Decolonizing Veterinary History
Although nearly erased from history, the first formally trained South African veterinarian was the little-known Dr Jotello Festiri Soga (1865–1906), son of the Xhosa Reverend Tiyo Soga and his Scottish wife. By detailing Soga's remarkable trajectory, this paper helps to decolonize the history of veterinary medicine, long dominated by the ‘great deeds’ of a succession of white men, and only recently beginning to diversify. This sort of knowledge d…
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