Soil erosion, conservationism and ideas about development
A Southern African exploration, 1900-1960
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4603876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W Beinart (0000-0002-4531-6389, University of Bristol, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-83 |
| Publication date | 1984-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057078408708088 |
| OpenAlex | W2148877556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 141 |
| References cited | 25 |
(1984). Soil erosion, conservationism and ideas about development: a Southern African exploration, 1900–1960. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 52-83
African studies · Erosion · Geography · Geomorphology · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · South African History and Culture · Geology
Cathecting the Natural
Land Reform under Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe
Peasant Protest as Environmental Protest. Some cases from the 18th to the 20th century
Together we can do more - environmental consciousness in the South African dam construction sector (1945-1980)
Choosing Your Baseline Carefully
An Exceptional Strike
Producing Gorongosa
Poisonous Plants, Pastoral Knowledge and Perceptions of Environmental Change in South Africa, c. 1880-1940
Basutoland
Grasslands and Thickets
Science in the Hands of Love’
Women/nature or gender/history? A critique of ecofeminist 'development
Technical development and peasant impoverishment
Discourse and the discipline of historical context
Introduction
Homestead, State, and Migrant Labor in Colonial Swaziland
The Political Ecology of Dambo Soil and Water Resources in Zimbabwe
Primitive Ideas
Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa
La Sécheresse
Re-claiming” Land in The Gambia
Pioneer Farmers and Family Dynasties in Marirangwe Purchase Area, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1931-1947
The Politics of Poverty
‘Waste-howling wilderness’
African Environmental Crisis
Situating Zimbabwe's natural resource governance systems in history
Environmental Change and African Societies
Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa
Power, knowledge and political ecology in the third world
From adoption claims to understanding farmers and contexts
Identities and Livelihoods
Forest Rights, Privileges and Prohibitions
British War-Effort Programme and the Making of the Land Degradation Narrative in Colonial Western Kenya
On heretics and God’s blanket salesmen
World Heritage and Cultural Economics
Sustainability and peasant farming systems
Use of woodland resources within and across villages in a Zimbabwean communal area
Trees and spaces as emotion and norm laden components of local ecosystems in Nyamaropa communal land, Nyanga District, Zimbabwe
The Geography of Post‐colonial Africa
An integrated assessment of erosion drivers facilitating gully expansion rates—A near century multi‐temporal analysis from South Africa
A Bad Lot’
No Maize, No Life
Environmental narratives and politics in Tanzania's Rufiji Delta
A climate for commerce
Europe, technology, and colonialism in the 20th century
Geographies of environmental intervention in Africa
The agrarian question in Africa
Scientific Salvation’ and Development
Doing what comes naturally? Women and environment in development
Environment, development, crisis, and crusade
Ancient and Backward or Long-Lived and Sustainable?” The Role of the Past in Debates Concerning Rural Livelihoods and Resource Conservation in Eastern Africa
Multiple historical geographies
Agricultural issues in the former homelands of South Africa
Sand in the Engine
Farm Size, Soil Investment, and Quality
The Reappearance of the Authentic
Communities of Sense/Communities of Sentiment
Document
Famine in the Landscape
Sites of Persuasion
Colonialism and the African Environment
Cathecting the Natural
Document
Agrarian Histories and Grassroots Development in South Asia
Shared Heritage, Contested Terrain
Identities and Livelihoods
Science, development, and empire
Controlling Development
The environmental imprints and complexes of social dynamics in rural Africa
Historical political ecology
Latitudes and Longitudes
Transformation discourses in southern Africa in Covid-19 perspective
The Application of International Resettlement Policy in African Villagization Projects
Pumpkins Just Got in There”
Farming systems and Conservation Agriculture
Political interventions in environmental resource use
The rise of ‘development’ thinking in Transkei
Betterment planning in South Africa
Learning from the local
Is Zimbabwe the future of South Africa? The implications for land reform in Southern Africa
Economic History in South Africa
Gender, Environment and Development in Southern Africa
From Child Labor “Problem” to Human Trafficking “Crisis”
Regional dimensions of conflict in the Horn of Africa
The long‐time requirements of the nation”
Contradictions Along the Commodity Road to Environmental Stabilization
Mau Mau and the Discourses of Decolonization
Frontier Security in North East Africa
Tsetse Visions
Rural Development, Royal History, and the Struggle for Authority in Early Apartheid Zululand (1951–4)
A Lasting Story
Education and the Agrarian Question in South Africa, C. 1900–40
Land Reform, Range Ecology, and Carrying Capacities in Namaqualand, South Africa
Rethinking the reserves
Contesting dominant narratives on soil erosion
Democracy and environment
The Empire Meets the New Deal
Political ecology
Carbon-binding biomass or a diversity of useful trees? (Counter)topographies of carbon forestry in Uganda
NGOs and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe
Economy and society in pre-industrial South Africa
For Men and Elders
The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930
Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency
A History of South Africa--Social and Economic
Colonial Development and Good Government
Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History
Experts and Expertise in Colonial Malawi
The Native Land Husbandry Act of 1951 and the Rural African Middle Class of Southern Rhodesia
Colonial Development and Good Government
The Rape of the Earth
Soil Erosion and Conservation
Ploughman's Folly
Growing from the roots
Ecology and history
The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry
Land, Labour and Merchant Capital in the Pre-Industrial Rural Economy of the Cape
On the shaping of South African society
Rural Development in Tropical Africa
The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860-1930
Take Out Hunger
The South African Economy
The Cattle Complex in East Africa
Capitalism and cheap labour-power in South Africa
| Unique citing works | 141 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,44 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2026 (42) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 119 |