Anthropology Southern Africa最新文献

{"title":"Performing multispecies studies in Southern Africa: historical legacies, marginalised subjects, reflexive positionalities.","authors":"Paula Alexiou, Julia Brekl, Emilie Köhler, Wisse van Engelen","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2024.2314786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2024.2314786","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multispecies studies are known for tackling human exceptionalism. Whilst the field has seen a remarkable increase in popularity amongst scholars in the humanities and social sciences, critiques argue that it neglects inequalities and consequential differences amongst humans and between humans and other-than-humans. These critiques are especially relevant in the context of Southern Africa, where extreme inequalities amongst humans persist whilst wildlife is often perceived to enjoy a favoured position in the region's prominent conservation industries. As four researchers working in a multispecies study project focusing on the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area in Southern Africa, we pose the question of what a politicised multispecies studies might look like. In this article, we share our thoughts and reflections on working in this complex political landscape. Using insights from our own fields, we share some of the persistent concerns encountered during fieldwork and discuss and contextualise these by drawing on multispecies literature that deals with similar concerns. We identify three salient themes that should inform and politicise multispecies work in postcolonial conservation landscapes: historical legacies, reflexive positionalities and marginalised subjects.</p>","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11388955/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142300784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Multispecies encounters in conservation landscapes in Southern Africa.","authors":"Léa Lacan, Hauke-Peter Vehrs, Michael Bollig","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2024.2352104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2024.2352104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11388947/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142300782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Killing tsetse and/or saving wildlife? A multispecies assemblage in colonial Zambia (1895-1959).","authors":"Léa Lacan","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2024.2339255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2024.2339255","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 (<i>Glossina morsitans</i>) 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 <i>G. morsitans</i> 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.</p>","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11388954/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142300783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wildlife corridors in a Southern African conservation landscape: the political ecology of multispecies mobilities along the arteries of anthropogenic conservation.","authors":"Michael Bollig","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2024.2327467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2024.2327467","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11388949/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142300785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}

{"title":"When caring and mourning threaten public health: the experience of Covid-19 preventive regulations in Zambia","authors":"James Musonda","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2250834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2250834","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article explores how Covid-19 regulations in hospitals and regarding funerals disrupted and limited the capacity of kin to care, and transformed the meanings of life and death, for Zambians. Nonetheless, patients and kin exercised their agency through disobedience, by bargaining with officials and by drawing on resources, such as social media and video calling, audio calling, and messaging via the mobile phone to express care and love. The article draws on ethnographically grounded accounts of my personal experiences of the Covid illness: the hospitalisation and loss of my maternal uncle; participant observation in hospital and community settings; and various formal and informal interviews with members of the general public. To understand people’s engagement with rules in the hospital, at funerals and at the graveyard, I draw on Alice Street’s notion of sociotechnical assemblage that takes these as places of total biopolitical management and a space where alternative and transgressive social orders emerge and are contested.Este artigo investiga como os regulamentos relacionados à Covid-19 nos hospitais e no tocante aos funerais perturbaram e limitaram a capacidade dos familiares de cuidar e transformaram os significados da vida e da morte para os zambianos. No entanto, os pacientes e familiares exerceram sua agência através da desobediência, da negociação com funcionários e do recurso a instrumentos como as redes sociais e as videochamadas, as chamadas de áudio e as mensagens enviadas pelo celular para expressar cuidado e amor. O artigo baseia-se em relatos etnograficamente fundamentados das minhas experiências pessoais com a Covid: a hospitalização e a perda do meu tio materno; observação participante em ambiente hospitalar e comunitário; e diversas entrevistas formais e informais com membros do público em geral. Para compreender a relação das pessoas com as regras no hospital, no funeral e no local de sepultamento, baseio-me na noção de agregado sociotécnico de Alice Street que toma o hospital como um local de gestão biopolítica total, mas também como um espaço onde ordens sociais alternativas e transgressivas emergem e são contestadas.Keywords: caredeathfamilyfuneralhealthcare staffhospitalrestrictions","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135432229","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}

{"title":"Covid-19 pandemic and mobility strategies of Chadian roadside vendors in Kousseri, Cameroon","authors":"Robi Layio","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2265958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2265958","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324521","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}

{"title":"The interconnection between the global and the local: case study of the indigenous Baka community of Nomedjoh, Cameroon","authors":"Richard Atimniraye Nyelade","doi":"10.1080/23323256.2023.2261996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2023.2261996","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":54118,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324713","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}

{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}

{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}