Space Is the Ultimate Luxury: Capitalists, Conservationists, and Ancestral Land in Namibia (African Social Studies)

by Luregn Lenggenhager and Bernard Moore

The Open Access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This book explores the history, ecology, and society of a seemingly inhospitable stretch of land along the Orange River in southern Namibia. Here, a group of African farmers have succeeded against all odds to stay on their ancestral homeland through decades of colonialism and apartheid. The twenty-first century, however,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004712445
• ISBN13: 9789004712447
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 380 Pages