Rhopalocera Africae Australis
Title | Rhopalocera Africae Australis PDF eBook |
Author | Trimen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | |
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Rhopalocera Africae australis; A Catalogue of South African Butterflies: Comprising Descriptions of all the known Species, With notices of their Larvae, Pupae, Localities, Habits, Seasons of appearance and Geographical Distribution
Title | Rhopalocera Africae australis; A Catalogue of South African Butterflies: Comprising Descriptions of all the known Species, With notices of their Larvae, Pupae, Localities, Habits, Seasons of appearance and Geographical Distribution PDF eBook |
Author | Roland Trimen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1866 |
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Rhopalocera Africæ Australis; a catalogue of South African butterflies, etc. pt. 1
Title | Rhopalocera Africæ Australis; a catalogue of South African butterflies, etc. pt. 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Roland TRIMEN |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1862 |
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Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography
Title | Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography PDF eBook |
Author | Sidney Mendelssohn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1182 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | South Africa |
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The Agricultural Journal of British East Africa
Title | The Agricultural Journal of British East Africa PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1466 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa
Title | The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Maano Ramutsindela |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2016-08-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3905758873 |
This book brings together recent and ongoing empirical studies to examine two relational kinds of politics, namely, the politics of nature, i.e. how nature conservation projects are sites on which power relations play out, and the politics of the scientific study of nature. These are discussed in their historical and present contexts, and at specific sites on which particular human-environment relations are forged or contested. This spatio-temporal juxtaposition is lacking in current research on political ecology while the politics of science appears marginal to critical scholarship on social nature. Specifically, the book examines power relations in nature-related activities, demonstrates conditions under which nature and science are politicised, and also accounts for political interests and struggles over nature in its various forms. The ecological, socio-political and economic dimensions of nature cannot be ignored when dealing with present-day environmental issues. Nature conservation regulations are concerned with the management of flora and fauna as much as with humans. Various chapters in the book pay attention to the ways in which nature, science and politics are interrelated and also co-constitutive of each other. They highlight that power relations are naturalised through science and science-related institutions and projects such as museums, botanical gardens, wetlands, parks and nature reserves.
Mary Elizabeth Barber: Growing Wild
Title | Mary Elizabeth Barber: Growing Wild PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Cohen |
Publisher | BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2020-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3906927040 |
Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818–1899), born in Britain, arrived in the Cape Colony in 1820 where she spent the rest of her life as a rolling stone, as she lived in and near Grahamstown, the diamond and gold fields, Pietermaritzburg, Malvern near Durban and on various farms in the eastern part of the Cape Colony. She has been perceived as ‘the most advanced woman of her time’, yet her legacy has attracted relatively little attention. She was the first woman ornithologist in South Africa, one of the first who propagated Darwin’s theory of evolution, an early archaeologist, keen botanist and interested lepidopterist. In her scientific writing, she propagated a new gender order; positioned herself as a feminist avant la lettre without relying on difference models and at the same time made use of genuinely racist argumentation. This is the first publication of her edited scientific correspondence. The letters – transcribed by Alan Cohen, who has written a number of biographical articles on Barber and her brothers – are primarily addressed to the entomologist Roland Trimen, the curator of the South African Museum in Cape Town. Today, the letters are housed at the Royal Entomological Society in St Albans. This book also includes a critical introduction by historian Tanja Hammel who has published a number of articles and published a monograph (2019) on Mary Elizabeth Barber.