David Mcdermott Hughes
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 95423 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Mcdermott Hughes |
| PRENOMES | David Mcdermott |
| SOBRENOME | Hughes |
| ASSINATURA | HUGHES D M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 143 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Energy without Conscience
My informants, who include many of these people, assisted the research and, obviously, made it possible.These women and men are too many to name, and more than a few wish their identities to
Zimbabwe's Exodus
To lump or to split
I am grateful to the many insightful scholars – including Andrew Hartnack in these pages – who have reviewed Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging. The main thesis
Climate Change and the Victim Slot
People change the climate. Ethnography, however, tends to look past these perpetrators and see only victims. In such accounts, parties vulnerable to climate change suffer, adapt, or do both. To varying degrees, their societies are resilient and may soon make themselves more so. These comparatively cheerful keywords overlook an entire moral field of responsibility, complicity, and culpability. High emitters of carbon dioxide bear the bulk of respo…
Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
Owning Lake Kariba
In choosing to belong ecologically in Africa, mainstream whites undercut the established European justification for appropriating it. That conventional wisdom centered on hard work and improvement. According to John Locke, the frontier farmer “mixed his labour with” the land, enhanced it, and thereby earned rights of tenure. Previous, native occupants had, by contrast, squandered the value of the land and, hence, could no longer lay claim to it. …
Whiteness in Zimbabwe
Preface The Art of Belonging The Zambezi Engineering and its Redemption Owning Lake Kariba The Farms Hydrology of Hope Playing the Game Belonging Awkwardly References
Whiteness in Zimbabwe
European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule. Arriving in the 1890s, whit
The Anxieties of Mobility
Third Nature
In southern Africa's "Great Limpopo Transboundary Conservation Area," potential nature, envisioned as ideal habitats for wildlife, may outweigh actual nature. I refer to this notion of conditional biodiversity as "third nature," distinguishing it from the equally anthropogenic, but tangible, second nature ("nature" as including human habitation). Conservationists and investors are inventing nature on a new scale that crosses national boundaries i…
Whites and Water
At Lake Kariba, conservation policies protect cultural heritage. In 1958, engineers created the lake by damming the Zambezi River. Over the next five years, the reservoir flooded 5, 580 square km, displacing 57, 000 Tonga farmers and destroying more habitat than any single human action ever had before. In response to this devastation, whites – particularly conservation-minded writers and photographers – expressed their shock and alarm. Gradually,…
Hydrology of hope
In Zimbabwe, many whites have affiliated themselves with the land rather than with surrounding societies. Theories of settler culture-which emphasize ethnic conflict-often overlook this environmentalist form of identity. As conservationists, white, large-scale farmers sought to belong to the landscape, and they modified it in ways that facilitated that sense of belonging. On the semiarid highlands, they manipulated the most manipulable of environ…
Of Sorcery and State
Harry G. West, Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 336 pp. In the Shimakonde language of northern Mozambique, kupilikula means to overturn, undo, or invert. One would— "pilikula" the sorcery of an opponent, thereby doing harm to the intending perpetrator of harm. In his book entitled Kupilikula, Harry West expands the definition of that word to include transformation of various…
Cadastral Politics
Projects promoting community-based management of natural resources frequently encourage local smallholders to share flora, fauna, or land forms with state agencies and/or private companies. Ideals of common property and moral economy have inspired this agenda and helped spread it globally. In Southern Africa, however, the general model of shared landscapes has collided with a bitter history of white colonization and land grabbing. This article re…
Rezoned for Business
Eco-tourism is undermining black smallholders' entitlement to land in Zimbabwe. In the 1890s, British administrators restrained whites from alienating the whole of the country by demarcating native reserves. In terms of this limited aim, the policy of native reserves worked. It ensured a land base for black agriculture, particularly for women and children. In the late 1980s, however, CAMPFIRE (Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Re…
Refugees and Squatters
For Mozambicans, border-crossing is neither new nor liberating. Many current analyses of refugees, labor migrants, smuggles, and other “transnational subjects ” emphasize their range of options, arguing that they are less and less constrained by porous, poilitically “soft ” international borders. This paper argues that, for at least a segment, the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border is hard and constraining and has been so since the beginning of the 20 th…
Third Nature
In southern Africa's "Great Limpopo Transboundary Conservation Area," potential nature, envisioned as ideal habitats for wildlife, may outweigh actual nature. I refer to this notion of conditional biodiversity as "third nature," distinguishing it from the equally anthropogenic, but tangible, second nature ("nature" as including human habitation). Conservationists and investors are inventing nature on a new scale that crosses national boundaries i…
Energy without Conscience
My informants, who include many of these people, assisted the research and, obviously, made it possible.These women and men are too many to name, and more than a few wish their identities to
Climate Change and the Victim Slot
People change the climate. Ethnography, however, tends to look past these perpetrators and see only victims. In such accounts, parties vulnerable to climate change suffer, adapt, or do both. To varying degrees, their societies are resilient and may soon make themselves more so. These comparatively cheerful keywords overlook an entire moral field of responsibility, complicity, and culpability. High emitters of carbon dioxide bear the bulk of respo…
Hydrology of hope
In Zimbabwe, many whites have affiliated themselves with the land rather than with surrounding societies. Theories of settler culture-which emphasize ethnic conflict-often overlook this environmentalist form of identity. As conservationists, white, large-scale farmers sought to belong to the landscape, and they modified it in ways that facilitated that sense of belonging. On the semiarid highlands, they manipulated the most manipulable of environ…
Cadastral Politics
Projects promoting community-based management of natural resources frequently encourage local smallholders to share flora, fauna, or land forms with state agencies and/or private companies. Ideals of common property and moral economy have inspired this agenda and helped spread it globally. In Southern Africa, however, the general model of shared landscapes has collided with a bitter history of white colonization and land grabbing. This article re…
Refugees and Squatters
For Mozambicans, border-crossing is neither new nor liberating. Many current analyses of refugees, labor migrants, smuggles, and other “transnational subjects ” emphasize their range of options, arguing that they are less and less constrained by porous, poilitically “soft ” international borders. This paper argues that, for at least a segment, the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border is hard and constraining and has been so since the beginning of the 20 th…
Rezoned for Business
Eco-tourism is undermining black smallholders' entitlement to land in Zimbabwe. In the 1890s, British administrators restrained whites from alienating the whole of the country by demarcating native reserves. In terms of this limited aim, the policy of native reserves worked. It ensured a land base for black agriculture, particularly for women and children. In the late 1980s, however, CAMPFIRE (Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Re…
Whites and Water
At Lake Kariba, conservation policies protect cultural heritage. In 1958, engineers created the lake by damming the Zambezi River. Over the next five years, the reservoir flooded 5, 580 square km, displacing 57, 000 Tonga farmers and destroying more habitat than any single human action ever had before. In response to this devastation, whites – particularly conservation-minded writers and photographers – expressed their shock and alarm. Gradually,…
To lump or to split
I am grateful to the many insightful scholars – including Andrew Hartnack in these pages – who have reviewed Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging. The main thesis
Refugees and Squatters
For Mozambicans, border-crossing is neither new nor liberating. Many current analyses of refugees, labor migrants, smuggles, and other “transnational subjects ” emphasize their range of options, arguing that they are less and less constrained by porous, poilitically “soft ” international borders. This paper argues that, for at least a segment, the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border is hard and constraining and has been so since the beginning of the 20 th…
Cadastral Politics
Projects promoting community-based management of natural resources frequently encourage local smallholders to share flora, fauna, or land forms with state agencies and/or private companies. Ideals of common property and moral economy have inspired this agenda and helped spread it globally. In Southern Africa, however, the general model of shared landscapes has collided with a bitter history of white colonization and land grabbing. This article re…
Rezoned for Business
Eco-tourism is undermining black smallholders' entitlement to land in Zimbabwe. In the 1890s, British administrators restrained whites from alienating the whole of the country by demarcating native reserves. In terms of this limited aim, the policy of native reserves worked. It ensured a land base for black agriculture, particularly for women and children. In the late 1980s, however, CAMPFIRE (Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Re…
Of Sorcery and State
Harry G. West, Kupilikula: Governance and the Invisible Realm in Mozambique. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, 336 pp. In the Shimakonde language of northern Mozambique, kupilikula means to overturn, undo, or invert. One would— "pilikula" the sorcery of an opponent, thereby doing harm to the intending perpetrator of harm. In his book entitled Kupilikula, Harry West expands the definition of that word to include transformation of various…
Whites and Water
At Lake Kariba, conservation policies protect cultural heritage. In 1958, engineers created the lake by damming the Zambezi River. Over the next five years, the reservoir flooded 5, 580 square km, displacing 57, 000 Tonga farmers and destroying more habitat than any single human action ever had before. In response to this devastation, whites – particularly conservation-minded writers and photographers – expressed their shock and alarm. Gradually,…
Hydrology of hope
In Zimbabwe, many whites have affiliated themselves with the land rather than with surrounding societies. Theories of settler culture-which emphasize ethnic conflict-often overlook this environmentalist form of identity. As conservationists, white, large-scale farmers sought to belong to the landscape, and they modified it in ways that facilitated that sense of belonging. On the semiarid highlands, they manipulated the most manipulable of environ…
Third Nature
In southern Africa's "Great Limpopo Transboundary Conservation Area," potential nature, envisioned as ideal habitats for wildlife, may outweigh actual nature. I refer to this notion of conditional biodiversity as "third nature," distinguishing it from the equally anthropogenic, but tangible, second nature ("nature" as including human habitation). Conservationists and investors are inventing nature on a new scale that crosses national boundaries i…
Owning Lake Kariba
In choosing to belong ecologically in Africa, mainstream whites undercut the established European justification for appropriating it. That conventional wisdom centered on hard work and improvement. According to John Locke, the frontier farmer “mixed his labour with” the land, enhanced it, and thereby earned rights of tenure. Previous, native occupants had, by contrast, squandered the value of the land and, hence, could no longer lay claim to it. …
Whiteness in Zimbabwe
Preface The Art of Belonging The Zambezi Engineering and its Redemption Owning Lake Kariba The Farms Hydrology of Hope Playing the Game Belonging Awkwardly References
Whiteness in Zimbabwe
European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule. Arriving in the 1890s, whit
The Anxieties of Mobility
Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
Climate Change and the Victim Slot
People change the climate. Ethnography, however, tends to look past these perpetrators and see only victims. In such accounts, parties vulnerable to climate change suffer, adapt, or do both. To varying degrees, their societies are resilient and may soon make themselves more so. These comparatively cheerful keywords overlook an entire moral field of responsibility, complicity, and culpability. High emitters of carbon dioxide bear the bulk of respo…
To lump or to split
I am grateful to the many insightful scholars – including Andrew Hartnack in these pages – who have reviewed Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging. The main thesis
Zimbabwe's Exodus
Energy without Conscience
My informants, who include many of these people, assisted the research and, obviously, made it possible.These women and men are too many to name, and more than a few wish their identities to
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