Representing environments in flux
Case studies from East Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8360697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsey Gillson (0000-0001-9607-6760, University of Oxford, corresponding author), Michael Sheridan, Michael J Sheridan (0000-0002-2542-3347, University of Vermont), Dan Brockington (0000-0001-5692-0154, University of Oxford) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 371-389 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Area (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0004-0894.2003.00188.x |
| OpenAlex | W2036742886 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 49 |
The dominant view in the ecology and anthropology of the 1950s saw populations harmoniously interacting in self‐regulating systems; climax forests and stable societies were the ruling hypotheses. Now, however, ecology and social sciences are investigating nature and culture in flux. The flux paradigms of nature and culture describe a human–ecological relationship that is non‐equilibrial, historically contingent and constantly negotiated at both material and ideological levels by unequal actors. In this paper, we examine the effect of changing ecological and cultural paradigms on interpretations of environmental change in three areas of East Africa: the North Pare Mountains, Tanzania, the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania and the Tsavo National Park, Kenya. We explore how discursive and materialist approaches can complement one another, by expanding the domains of ecological inquiry and demanding that analysts cross‐check their data for unquestioned assumptions regarding stability, variability and spatial and temporal scales. Rather than testing a ruling hypothesis, we suggest that ecologists and social scientists work with multiple hypotheses, with the aim of understanding the interplay between ecological, environmental and social influences
Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnology · Geography · Human ecology · Ideology · Materialism · Niche construction · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tanzania · African history and culture analysis · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Environmental Histories and Emerging Fisheries Management of the Upper Zambezi River Floodplains
Mobility and Technology
African environments themed papers
Public” Interests and the Development of Tanzanian Environmental Policy
Ecosystem change in the South Pare Mountain bloc, Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania
Ancient and Backward or Long-Lived and Sustainable?” The Role of the Past in Debates Concerning Rural Livelihoods and Resource Conservation in Eastern Africa
New Perspectives on Early Regional Interaction Networks of East African Trade
The (im)balance of nature
Sacred Groves for Forest Conservation in Ghana's Coastal Savannas
Event Ecology, Causal Historical Analysis, and Human-Environment Research
Tree Symbolism and Conservation in the South Pare Mountains, Tanzania
The Environmental and Social History of African Sacred Groves
Living Roofs and Brownfield Wildlife
Integrating the Anthropocene in Legal Education
The Chinese and the chief's tree
Boundary Plants, the Social Production of Space, and Vegetative Agency in Agrarian Societies
Global warming and global war
Developing Landscape Historical Ecologies in Eastern Africa
Green land, brown land, black land
Grazing ecology and forest history
Plant succession; an analysis of the development of vegetation
Misreading the African Landscape
On the Rate of Growth of the Population of the United States since 1790 and Its Mathematical Representation
From Balance of Nature to Hierarchical Patch Dynamics
Opportunistic Management for Rangelands Not at Equilibrium
Stability of African Pastoral Ecosystems
Land Degradation and Society
Fortress Conservation
Liberation Ecologies
Development narratives, or making the best of blueprint development
Deforestation, Erosion, and Fire
The nature of metaphors in cultural geography and environmental history
Political ecology
Population Growth and Poverty in Machakos District, Kenya
A Livelihood Perspective on Natural Resource Management and Environmental Change in Semiarid Tanzania
Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land
Fashioned Forest Pasts, Occluded Histories? International Environmental Analysis in West African Locales
Das Deutsche Kolonialreich
Theories of Culture
Traces on the Rhodian Shore
Degradation Debates and Data Deficiencies
An Irrigation Intake Is like a Uterus
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2022 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |