Elijah Doro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3827852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elijah Doro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elijah |
| FAMILY NAME | Doro |
| SIGNATURE | DORO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3306-2393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toxic Narratives of an ‘African Wasteocene’
What does the Wasteocene look like when gazed at from the point of view of Africa’s colonial history? How is it linked to other scales of analysis, and how can we engage with it in ways that are relevant to simultaneous understandings of toxic waste and power dynamics in contemporary global and local systems? This paper engages with the Wasteocene from the perspective of gold mining in colonial Zimbabwe and discusses narratives and knowledge regi…
Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism
No Body, No Crime? Vicariously Imagining Africa’s Arsenic Century
During the first half of the twentieth century, white settler farmers in colonial Zimbabwe raised incessant complaints and alarm over ‘mysterious’ and inexplicably frequent incidences of cattle mortalities. These mortalities were attributed to poisoning from careless handling of arsenical dips, ingestion of arsenic sprayed grass and grazing in veld impregnated with arsenic trioxide. The arsenic question occupied the attention of experts from the …
Plunder for Profit
Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debunks previous histories glorifying tobacco farming, Doro reveals the indelible marks that tobacco left on landscapes, communities, and people. Demonstrating that the history of tobacco farming is inseparable from that of colonial encounter, Doro outlines…
No Body, No Crime? Vicariously Imagining Africa’s Arsenic Century
During the first half of the twentieth century, white settler farmers in colonial Zimbabwe raised incessant complaints and alarm over ‘mysterious’ and inexplicably frequent incidences of cattle mortalities. These mortalities were attributed to poisoning from careless handling of arsenical dips, ingestion of arsenic sprayed grass and grazing in veld impregnated with arsenic trioxide. The arsenic question occupied the attention of experts from the …
Beyond Agency
This paper examines African peasant tobacco production in Southern Rhodesia from 1900 to 1980, from the cusp of colonialism to its end. It analyses shifting state policy towards African tobacco producers, the concomitant impact on peasant economies, accumulation patterns and the rural physical landscape and peasant responses. It focuses on the changing agricultural commodity value chains, cash crop asymmetries, and global market forces to explain…
Remembering Mugabe
A silenced spring? Exploring Africa’s ‘Rachel Carson moment’
Rachel Carson's impact on the modern environmental movement is widely debated, but her 'African moment' has only received cursory historiographical attention. Environmental historians have not yet unpacked how her ideas have been appropriated, applied and contested in the continent, beyond the recent pejorative description of Carson as a 'killer of Africans'. This paper uses the lens of political ecology and environmental history, drawing mainly …
Resource Curse or Governance Deficit? The Role of Parliament in Uganda's Oil and Zimbabwe's Diamonds
This article returns to the question of ‘resource curse’ and the powers of local parliaments to harness resource exploitation to meet national development agendas. The study is inspired by direct experiences with the Zimbabwean and Ugandan parliaments. It examines the dilemmas and uncertainties that confront dysfunctional states, and states with weak governance institutions, in governing newly discovered natural resources effectively. It focuses …
Resource Curse or Governance Deficit? The Role of Parliament in Uganda's Oil and Zimbabwe's Diamonds
This article returns to the question of ‘resource curse’ and the powers of local parliaments to harness resource exploitation to meet national development agendas. The study is inspired by direct experiences with the Zimbabwean and Ugandan parliaments. It examines the dilemmas and uncertainties that confront dysfunctional states, and states with weak governance institutions, in governing newly discovered natural resources effectively. It focuses …
Beyond Agency
This paper examines African peasant tobacco production in Southern Rhodesia from 1900 to 1980, from the cusp of colonialism to its end. It analyses shifting state policy towards African tobacco producers, the concomitant impact on peasant economies, accumulation patterns and the rural physical landscape and peasant responses. It focuses on the changing agricultural commodity value chains, cash crop asymmetries, and global market forces to explain…
Remembering Mugabe
A silenced spring? Exploring Africa’s ‘Rachel Carson moment’
Rachel Carson's impact on the modern environmental movement is widely debated, but her 'African moment' has only received cursory historiographical attention. Environmental historians have not yet unpacked how her ideas have been appropriated, applied and contested in the continent, beyond the recent pejorative description of Carson as a 'killer of Africans'. This paper uses the lens of political ecology and environmental history, drawing mainly …
Resource Curse or Governance Deficit? The Role of Parliament in Uganda's Oil and Zimbabwe's Diamonds
This article returns to the question of ‘resource curse’ and the powers of local parliaments to harness resource exploitation to meet national development agendas. The study is inspired by direct experiences with the Zimbabwean and Ugandan parliaments. It examines the dilemmas and uncertainties that confront dysfunctional states, and states with weak governance institutions, in governing newly discovered natural resources effectively. It focuses …
A silenced spring? Exploring Africa’s ‘Rachel Carson moment’
Rachel Carson's impact on the modern environmental movement is widely debated, but her 'African moment' has only received cursory historiographical attention. Environmental historians have not yet unpacked how her ideas have been appropriated, applied and contested in the continent, beyond the recent pejorative description of Carson as a 'killer of Africans'. This paper uses the lens of political ecology and environmental history, drawing mainly …
Remembering Mugabe
Beyond Agency
This paper examines African peasant tobacco production in Southern Rhodesia from 1900 to 1980, from the cusp of colonialism to its end. It analyses shifting state policy towards African tobacco producers, the concomitant impact on peasant economies, accumulation patterns and the rural physical landscape and peasant responses. It focuses on the changing agricultural commodity value chains, cash crop asymmetries, and global market forces to explain…
Plunder for Profit
Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debunks previous histories glorifying tobacco farming, Doro reveals the indelible marks that tobacco left on landscapes, communities, and people. Demonstrating that the history of tobacco farming is inseparable from that of colonial encounter, Doro outlines…
No Body, No Crime? Vicariously Imagining Africa’s Arsenic Century
During the first half of the twentieth century, white settler farmers in colonial Zimbabwe raised incessant complaints and alarm over ‘mysterious’ and inexplicably frequent incidences of cattle mortalities. These mortalities were attributed to poisoning from careless handling of arsenical dips, ingestion of arsenic sprayed grass and grazing in veld impregnated with arsenic trioxide. The arsenic question occupied the attention of experts from the …
No Body, No Crime? Vicariously Imagining Africa’s Arsenic Century
During the first half of the twentieth century, white settler farmers in colonial Zimbabwe raised incessant complaints and alarm over ‘mysterious’ and inexplicably frequent incidences of cattle mortalities. These mortalities were attributed to poisoning from careless handling of arsenical dips, ingestion of arsenic sprayed grass and grazing in veld impregnated with arsenic trioxide. The arsenic question occupied the attention of experts from the …
Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism
Toxic Narratives of an ‘African Wasteocene’
What does the Wasteocene look like when gazed at from the point of view of Africa’s colonial history? How is it linked to other scales of analysis, and how can we engage with it in ways that are relevant to simultaneous understandings of toxic waste and power dynamics in contemporary global and local systems? This paper engages with the Wasteocene from the perspective of gold mining in colonial Zimbabwe and discusses narratives and knowledge regi…
African studies and sociopolitical issues (8 works) · African history and culture studies (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Biology (3 works)