The dominant knowledge about African environments informed by Western literature—scientific reports, travelogues, memoirs, journalism, and fiction—has constructed an image of Africa as a pristine wilderness of exotic biodiversity on the verge of destruction due to Africa’s ignorance-based environmental culture. Contrary to this, Wangari Maathai’s and Nadine Gordimer’s environmental discourse, in The Green Belt Movement (2003) and Get a Life (2005), respectively, reveal Africa’s environmental decline as the direct consequence of the long history of colonial and capitalist exploitation of its natural resources, and the transformation of its environment into a resource base for industrial production. Drawing on the theoretical concepts of post-colonial ecocriticism, this article argues that environmental representations are mediated by the ideological configurations that generate them. Consequently, Maathai’s and Gordimer’s environmental discourse repudiates the dominant knowledge of African environments, offering alternative ways of engaging with its ecological issues while highlighting the dangers of capitalist resource exploitation on Africans’ environments, lives, and livelihoods. The image of the environment, in their works, ties politics and ecology together, providing an understanding of how the environment enables a rethinking of socio-political justice in dealing with Africa’s ecological crisis. (This article is published in the thematic collection ‘African ecologies: literary, cultural and religious perspectives’, edited by Adriaan von Klinken, Simon Manda, Damaris Parsitau and Abel Ugba.)
西方文学--科学报告、游记、回忆录、新闻报道和小说--对非洲环境的主流认识构建了这样一种形象，即由于非洲以无知为基础的环境文化，非洲是一个充满奇异生物多样性的原始荒野，濒临毁灭。与此相反，旺加里-马塔伊（Wangari Maathai）和纳丁-戈迪默（Nadine Gordimer）分别在《绿化带运动》（2003 年）和《过上好日子》（2005 年）中的环境论述揭示了非洲环境恶化的直接原因，即长期以来殖民主义和资本主义对非洲自然资源的掠夺，以及将非洲环境转变为工业生产的资源基地。本文借鉴后殖民生态批评的理论概念，认为环境表述是以产生环境表述的意识形态结构为中介的。因此，马塔伊和戈迪默的环境论述否定了关于非洲环境的主流知识，提供了处理非洲生态问题的替代方法，同时强调了资本主义资源开发对非洲人的环境、生活和生计造成的危险。在他们的作品中，环境的形象将政治和生态联系在一起，让人们了解环境如何在应对非洲生态危机的过程中重新思考社会政治的公正性。(本文发表于由 Adriaan von Klinken、Simon Manda、Damaris Parsitau 和 Abel Ugba 编辑的专题集《非洲生态：文学、文化和宗教视角》）。
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Nandini Das, winner of the British Academy Book Prize 2023, discusses her experience of writing her prize-winning book Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2023). Courting India offers a fascinating history of Thomas Roe, the first English ambassador to the Mughal Empire, and his four years in India (1615–19), a mission generally judged to be a failure, with Roe failing to make much headway in securing diplomatic relations or trade agreements. Roe did, however, leave an extensive account of his time in India in the form of a journal, which has proved helpful in reconstructing the nature of his encounter with the Mughal court. The Mughal emperor, Jahangir, and his courtiers, seem to have had little interest in Roe, who was regarded as something of an exotic curiosity or an irrelevance. This ground-breaking book provides an insider’s view of a Britain in the making, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown. It is a story of palace intrigue and scandal, lotteries and wagers that unfolds as global trade begins to stretch from Russia to Virginia, from West Africa to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. At an event held at the British Academy in January 2024, Professor Das discussed the book with Professor Charles Tripp FBA, chair of the Book Prize panel of judges.
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Gurminder K. Bhambra, Elizabeth Edwards, Margot Finn, Fiona Williams
The ‘culture wars’ that dominate public discourse in the UK turn, very often, on the significance accorded to histories of empire, slavery, and colonialism. What seems to be primarily of concern is the place of such histories in the telling of our national story. In this section, the articles explore different ways in which we could think about the relationship of the past with the present. Specifically, the articles collected here use the frame of ‘reparative histories’ as a potentially more effective way of engaging with complex and contested pasts. They address the idea of a reparatory sociology, colonial photography, representation and indigenous spaces, the gendering of reparative histories, and the need to rethink the welfare state from such a perspective.
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Sarah Curtis, Melissa Leach, Kate Ardern, Carly Beckerman, Paul R. Hunter, Hanna Ruszczyk, Mark Pelling
This commentary considers how SHAPE (Social-Sciences Humanities & the Arts for People and the Economy) disciplines contribute to interdisciplinarity, inclusiveness and international cooperation in work to address the challenges to health and wellbeing arising from crises and to inform strategies for crisis preparation, response and recovery. It reviews examples of strategies to address growing international concerns about the global challenges we face, given the increasing scale and frequency of crises arising due to geopolitical conflicts and climate change. In spring 2023, the British Academy, aided by funding from the Wellcome Trust, held three virtual workshops to discuss how we can protect and sustain good health during and after crises precipitated by extreme events associated with climate change or conflicts in various settings around the world. The discussion highlighted the need for Interdisciplinary perspectives, and how knowledge and experience from SHAPE disciplines can complement STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) perspectives, helping to inform disaster response strategies and to develop more ‘systemic’ preparedness to protect health during crises. The significant roles of governmental agencies and non-governmental organisations, and the importance of international cooperation were acknowledged. The discussion also emphasised the need to acknowledge the importance of using effective means to engage with stakeholders in communities at the local scale, whose lived experience and knowledge, often embedded in cultures and traditions, can usefully inform ‘joined-up’ policy and practice. A case was also made for more inclusive strategies: for example, acknowledging the vital roles of women during and after disasters.
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Fiona Williams, Elizabeth Edwards, Andrew Hadfield
The Editors reveal their ambitions for the newly relaunched Journal of the British Academy, including an explanation of the types of articles that it will contain in future. There is also a description of the contents of the double issue with which the Journal is being relaunched.
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It has been claimed, often without evidence, that women have flocked to Al-Shabaab to work as fundraisers, cooks, intelligence officers, suicide bombers and sex slaves, and have even recruited others into the group. After attacks, such as that on Mombasa's Central Police Station, which have involved women, their motivations have been ascribed to factors including ideological commitment; the desire for financial gain, fame or danger; love; the pursuit of vengeance; curiosity; coercion; and kidnap. Attention paid to women's motives tends to be informed by the perception that women are automatically victims of violence, but the phenomenon is more complex than that. In this article, the testimonies of Kenyan women who have participated in Al-Shabaab's activities are used to explore the complex and multifaceted realities and multiple factors that enabled their mobilisation. Three motivational pathways that led Kenyan women into Al-Shabaab are identified, and Al-Shabaab's mobilisation strategies are also addressed.
有说法称(通常没有证据)，大批女性加入青年党，从事筹款、厨师、情报官员、自杀式炸弹袭击者和性奴等工作，甚至还招募其他人加入该组织。在蒙巴萨中央警察局(Mombasa Central Police Station)发生的袭击中，有女性参与其中。袭击发生后，人们将其动机归结为以下因素:意识形态承诺;追求金钱利益、名誉或危险的欲望;爱;复仇:追求复仇;好奇心;胁迫的;和绑架。人们对妇女动机的关注往往是由于认为妇女自然是暴力的受害者，但实际情况要复杂得多。本文以参与青年党活动的肯尼亚妇女的证词，探讨促使她们动员起来的复杂和多方面的现实及多重因素。确定了肯尼亚妇女加入青年党的三个动机途径，并讨论了青年党的动员战略。
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Russia�s current large-scale unprovoked invasion of Ukraine demonstrates that the environment matters, even though it is considered a secondary issue during conflicts. The war has dire consequences for people and nature, in both Ukraine and other European states. The Ukrainian case is viewed as a global system transformation factor: it has seen transboundary effects throughout the regions and the world. Of growing importance is the need to investigate the main principles and approaches in respect of environmental peacebuilding. We argue that this current war against Ukraine has proved that the world needs new approaches to sustainable peacebuilding, including environmental reparation and justice, and we propose a possible reparation mechanism through the world�s first Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
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This article examines the detrimental effects of Kenya's wide-ranging policies, strategies and tactics of waging the war on terror at the Kenya coast. The 'war' is waged through police-related killings and enforced disappearances and is becoming counterproductive as it is contributing to a loss of citizenship rights for an increasing segment of the population. These grievances are rarely portrayed in the public sphere but continue to manifest in the suffering of families, livelihood losses, increased stigmatisation and, most importantly, through violation of the citizenship rights of widows and their orphaned children. Using interview data from the Kenya coast, the article attempts to shift beyond perceiving women and young people as perpetrators of violence to seeing them as silent victims of the war on terror. The article analyses these dynamics from community and civil society perspectives. It contributes to the emerging literature on women and violent extremism by examining the silent suffering of widows and their children, who often are neither seen nor heard.
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This article argues that older people � by virtue (at least in part) of their association with the past � lack visibility in dominant conceptions of the contemporary. With its (neo-)modernist emphasis on the innovative new, 'the contemporary' � as a descriptor of the present � aligns, prejudicially, with youth. The contemporary as category or concept is frequently discussed in metaphorical terms that align it with early phases of the life course. Within this frame older women are particularly troublesome to the discourse of the contemporary, wherein they represent a blockage in the flow of futurity. After offering a theorisation of the ways in which contemporary operates in these terms, the article concludes by considering two texts � a film, Michael Haneke's Amour (2012), and a play, debbie tucker green's generations (2005) � both of which craft encounters with narratives of old age and gender, and are commonly regarded as 'contemporary' according to the terms outlined.
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This article argues for the inclusion of women's epistemology in discourse about violent extremism and approaches to tackling it in Kenya. It focuses on mothers of male recruits to violent extremist organisations, arguing that, although mothers have critical insights to offer, their knowledge and experiences remain unacknowledged and unheard in Kenyan responses to violent extremism. Although women, including mothers, are understood to be useful contributors to the fight against violent extremism, their voices remain peripheral in masculinised discourses and actions. This article uses an African feminist theoretical approach, informed by 'Motherism', and gendered peace - as well as security frameworks including UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR 1325 and 2242) on women, peace and security and women's inclusion in efforts to address violent extremism - to argue that policy development and implementation processes in Kenya have failed to capture the meaningful contributions that recruits' mothers can make to addressing violent extremism.
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