The Nature of Whiteness

Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe

Yuka Suzuki (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2016
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99954-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Yuka Suzuki is associate professor of anthropology at Bard College.

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

Notes

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	12.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Culture, Place, and Nature
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): K. Sivaramakrishnan
Zusatzinfo	10 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-295-99954-3 / 0295999543
ISBN-13	978-0-295-99954-8 / 9780295999548
Zustand	Neuware