Trees, forests and communities’
Some historiographical approaches to environmental history on Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8360918 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Brown (0000-0002-5217-1501, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 343-356 |
| 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.0004-0894.2003.00186.x |
| OpenAlex | W2030500349 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 26 |
Focusing on the contested issue of trees and forests, this paper looks at various ways in which historians have explored environmental change and human agency in Africa. It looks in particular at the colonial period and positions the case of the Cape Colony (South Africa) in a broader historiographical context. Colonial silviculture involved both the appropriation of the natural forests and the creation of exotic plantations. These policies generated a mixture of reactions from African communities and had varying effects on the environment. Colonial science and the projects it gave rise to have since been critiqued, contributing to the promotion of community‐based forestry schemes that try to incorporate indigenous knowledge and ideas about land use
Agency (philosophy) · Agroforestry · Appropriation · Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Deforestation (computer science) · Environmental history · Geography · Historiography · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess) · Silviculture · Social science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Ecology · Environmental Science · Forestry · South African History and Culture
Cutting down trees
Nature's government
Misreading the African Landscape
Black politics in South Africa since 1945
Ecological Imperialism
Conservation, Control and Ecological Change
The Conservation and Utilisation of the Natural World
Reading Forest History Backwards
The woodfuel crisis reconsidered
The greening of Africa
Peasants in Africa
The threatening desert
Soil erosion in the kingdom of Lesotho
African Wildlife and Livelihoods
The Lie of the Land
Rainforest Relations, Gender and Resource Use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone
South Africa's Environmental History
Killing for Conservation
Trees in fields in Southern Zimbabwe
Scottish missionaries, evangelical discourses and the origins of conservation thinking in Southern Africa 1820-1900
Displaced People, Replaced Narratives
Economic and Social Origins of Mau Mau 1945-1953
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2014 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |