Culture, environment & the enemies of complexity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7213787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Englund (0000-0001-6063-4986, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 76 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056249808704308 |
| OpenAlex | W2000345565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article assesses recent debate regarding dimensions of post‐cold war conflict in Africa. It reviews the populist, and influential assertion that the ‘coming anarchy’, in Africa and elsewhere, is the result increasingly of clashes between cultures rather than states, and that these nation states necessarily give rise to primordial ethnicities. There continues to be a view that Africa's ills lie with overpopulation, environmental degradation and ethnic conflict. In contrast to the travel writing of authors like Kaplan nuanced perspectives challenging conventional wisdom can be underpinned by the force of anthropology and contemporary debates, relating to the new ecology and critiques of power
Assertion · Biology · Cold war · Development economics · Economics · Environmental degradation · Environmental ethics · Ethnic group · Overpopulation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Ecology
Green imperialism
Tears of the Dead
Misreading the African Landscape
Fantasmas balcánicos
The feast of the sorcerer
Nuer Dilemmas
Talking culture
Anthropological Locations
Development narratives, or making the best of blueprint development
Balkan ghosts
The Ecology of Order and Chaos
Talking Culture
Perilous Ideas
Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making
A thousand plateaus
Developing differences
An opportunity lost
The Social Preconditions of Radical Scepticism
Siting Culture
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2
Encountering Development
The production of witchcraft/witchcraft as production
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2008 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |