The nature of whiteness : race, animals, and nation in Zimbabwe
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The nature of whiteness : race, animals, and nation in Zimbabwe
（Culture, place, and nature）
University of Washington Press, 2017
- hardcover : alk. paper
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-193) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Nature of Whiteness explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe. Nature and environment have played prominent roles in white Zimbabwean identity, and when the political tide turned against white farmers after independence, nature was the most powerful resource they had at their disposal. In the 1970s, "Mlilo," a private conservancy sharing boundaries with Hwange National Park, became the first site in Zimbabwe to experiment with "wildlife production," and by the 1990s, wildlife tourism had become one of the most lucrative industries in the country. Mlilo attained international notoriety in 2015 as the place where Cecil the Lion was killed by a trophy hunter.
Yuka Suzuki provides a balanced study of whiteness, the conservation of nature, and contested belonging in twenty-first-century southern Africa. The Nature of Whiteness is a fascinating account of human-animal relations and the interplay among categories of race and nature in this embattled landscape.
Table of Contents
Foreword / K. Sivaramakrishnan
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. The Leopard's Black and White Spots
2. A Short Settler History
3. Black Baboons and White Rubbish Trees
4. Reinstating Nature, Reinventing Morality
5. The Uses of Animals
6. Wildlife Contested
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