Pub Date : 2024-08-08eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2024.2339255
Léa Lacan
This article investigates the problem of the tsetse fly and the trypanosomiasis disease it conveys as a transforming multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia from the late nineteenth century until 1959. Based on archival research, it analyses the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans) as a moving target; not only a mobile and elusive insect but also a moving field of knowledge bringing multiple stakeholders into dialogue. It shows that tsetse control and wildlife conservation emerged together in colonial Zambia, in conflicting but also synergising ways, and that the association of large mammals to G. morsitans laid the ground for their classification as killable or preservable species. In the crossed influence of diverse regional colonial expertise, the article finds that the complex multispecies relations between the tsetse fly, the trypanosomes, wildlife, vegetation, humans and cattle, mediated and enacted by colonial experts and others, shaped institutions, policies and landscapes.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-08eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2024.2327467
Michael Bollig
The decline of biodiversity is a key topic in public discussions around the globe. These debates have triggered massive efforts to increase protected areas and to safeguard the corridors connecting them. The wildlife corridors dealt with in this article are mainly thought to facilitate the mobility of elephants and some other large herbivores (for example, zebra and buffalo). Wildlife corridors are not only essential for species connectivity but also an integral part of the booming ecotourism in north-eastern Namibia's conservation landscapes. Coexistence infrastructure is meant to contribute to economic development and local incomes. Conservancies - community-based conservation organisations in the Namibian context - gazette corridors and market wildlife abundance to ecotourists, potential investors in tourism and commercial hunters. The coexistence of humans and wildlife is challenging, though. Human-wildlife interactions frequently result in damage, and often conservationist environmental infrastructuring runs against the aims of farmers to expand their fields for commercial crop production and to gain pastures for growing cattle herds. It also runs against other governmentally endorsed infrastructuring that brings tarred roads, water pipelines and boreholes. This article analyses contested wildlife corridors as part of a larger conservationist project in the western parts of Namibia's Zambezi Region.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2296744
{"title":"Anthropology Southern Africa statement on Israeli state violence in Gaza","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2296744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2296744","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"235 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139173960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2265958
Robi Layio
The movement of people between N’Djamena (Chad) and Kousseri (Cameroon) has drastically increased since the construction of the Nguéli Bridge linking the two cities in 1985. This massive movement of people came to a sudden halt in 2020 when the Chadian authorities put measures in place to limit the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. From then on, movement from one bank of the Logone River to the other was conditioned by the presentation of an official document authorising traders to cross the border. The bridge became a locale for border users to develop “winning strategies” to maintain their daily movement between the two cities. This article analyses the strategies that Chadian roadside vendors used to move between the two borders, despite the muzzling of movement across the Nguéli Bridge during the Covid-19 period. The data collected in the field through interviews and direct observation show that Chadian vendors used relational networks to ensure their daily activities in the two towns, some of them opting for a shorter migratory movement and others for a long-term migration to the town of Maroua.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2261996
Richard Atimniraye Nyelade
The impact of globalisation on local communities is a widely debated topic in sociology and anthropology. This article explores the dynamics and statics of local communities in the context of globalisation using the concepts of deterritorialisation and imagined community. The study focuses on the indigenous Baka community of Nomedjoh in Cameroon and their response to globalisation through the redefinition and reconfiguration of their identities. Utilising Arjun Appadurai’s theoretical framework of scapes, the article delves into the processes by which the Baka community of Nomedjoh creates connections with or resistance to the global community. The study is based on data from a documentary film and endeavours to answer the question of how globalisation affects the local life of the Baka of Nomedjoh. The conclusion highlights the importance of considering the dialectic of the local and the global in the analysis of social transformations and movements.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2267077
Yongjin Wang
{"title":"Classify, exclude, police: urban lives in South Africa and Nigeria","authors":"Yongjin Wang","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2267077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2267077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"53 1","pages":"317 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2282101
Loudine Philip
{"title":"Rethinking Khoe and San indigeneity, language and culture in Southern Africa","authors":"Loudine Philip","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2282101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2282101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":"60 1","pages":"315 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2261512
Shingirai Nyakabawu
This study argues that arrival infrastructures play a crucial role in shaping the mobility and integration of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa. By examining the experiences of migrants with access to these infrastructures and those without, the research explores the influence of the infrastructures on the challenges of destitution and homelessness that migrants face in their new environment. Through a comparative analysis of interviews, the study reveals how arrival infrastructures contribute to migrants’ familiarity with the City of Cape Town, provide housing and employment opportunities and facilitate the overall integration processes. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the importance of arrival infrastructures and underscore their profound impact on the settlement experiences of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2023.2256367
James Granelli
In an age of climate and ecological breakdown, questions of how we relate to the natural world and the more-than-human beings around us are more important than ever. This ethnography seeks to bring these questions to the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa, a place known for its conservation and tourism value, by taking an experimental multispecies approach. Multispecies ethnography is particularly useful for these types of explorations as it allows the stories of the more-than-human to emerge from the periphery and be put in conversation with the human. This ethnography found that despite Kirstenbosch’s socioecological benefits, the intimacy fostered between humans and more-than-humans in the gardens is distinctly human-centric and centres on a colonial construction of nature and natural beauty. Practices of photography and viewing and the commercialisation of the gardens reinforce such a relationship, producing a space where human needs and desires are prioritised and the boundary between humans and more-than-humans reified. This multispecies approach to human–environment interactions highlights the potential failures of western conservation practices and contributes to the growing exploration of complex human–nature relationships in ways that are deeper and kinder and that recognise nature’s agency and animacy in the Anthropocene.
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