Plunder for Profit - Elijah Doro

Plunder for Profit

A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe

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Buch | Hardcover
332 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-09839-7 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
Examining the history of tobacco farming in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, Elijah Doro outlines the impacts left on landscapes, communities and people. Drawing from environmental history and political economy, Doro illuminates debates about colonialism, conservationism and sustainability.
Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debunks previous histories glorifying tobacco farming, Doro reveals the indelible marks that tobacco left on landscapes, communities, and people. Demonstrating that the history of tobacco farming is inseparable from that of colonial encounter, Doro outlines how tobacco became an institutionalised culture of production, which was linked to state power and natural ecosystems, and driven by a pernicious heritage of unbridled plunder. With the destruction of landscapes, the negative impacts of the export trade and the growing tobacco epidemic in Zimbabwe, tobacco farming has a long and varied legacy in southern African and across the world. Connecting the local to the global, and the environmental to the social, this book illuminates our understandings of environmental history, colonialism and sustainability.

Elijah Doro is a research fellow at the University of Agder and an environmental historian with an interest in southern Africa. His research on agrarian and environmental histories is inspired by his personal experiences growing up in Zimbabwe's tobacco-farming countryside and participating in the tobacco production economy.

Introduction; 1. Global perspectives and local narratives: a socio-environmental history of pioneer tobacco farming in Southern Rhodesia, 1893–1945; 2. The post-war tobacco boom and the development of conservationism in Southern Rhodesia, 1947–1960; 3. A silenced spring? Exploring Africa's 'Rachel Carson moment': A socio-environmental history of the pesticides in tobacco production in Southern Rhodesia, 1945–1980; 4. Beyond agency: The African peasantry, the state and tobacco in Southern Rhodesia, 1900–1980; 5. 'The threat of soil erosion is far more permanent than the threat of sanctions': The unilateral declaration of independence, war, and ecological change in tobacco farming landscapes in Southern Rhodesia, 1960–1980; 6. Tobacco control discourses and the tobacco industry in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, 1953–2020; Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie African Studies
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 235 mm
Gewicht 630 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Technik
ISBN-10 1-009-09839-X / 100909839X
ISBN-13 978-1-009-09839-7 / 9781009098397
Zustand Neuware
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