From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Border

by David Mcdermott Hughes

Book Overview

From Enslavement to Environmentalism takes a challenging ethnographic and historical look at the politics of eco-development in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border zone. David Hughes argues that European colonization in southern Africa--essentially an unsuccessful effort to turn the region into another North America or Australia--has profoundly reshaped rural politics and culture and continues to do so, as neoliberal developers commoditize the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295985909
• ISBN13: 9780295985909
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher