Light and power for a multiracial nation : the Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation / Julia Tischler, researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Tischler, Julia, 1982-

Series:

• Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Multiculturalism--Kariba Dam Region (Zambia and Zimbabwe)--History.
• Relocation (Housing)--Kariba Dam Region (Zambia and Zimbabwe)--History.
• Hydroelectric power plants.
• History.
• Relocation (Housing).
• Multiculturalism.
• Kariba Dam (Zambia and Zimbabwe)--Social aspects--History.
• Kariba Dam (Zambia and Zimbabwe)--Economic aspects--History.
• Hydroelectric power plants--Kariba Dam Region (Zambia and Zimbabwe)--History.
• Rhodesia and Nyasaland--History.

Physical Description:

xii, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Contents:

• 1 Planning Kariba 20
• 1.1 Global high modernism and the Kariba Dam scheme 20
• 1.2 'Scientific' decision-making? 24
• 1.3 Developing a powerful white nation 29
• 1.4 Negotiating development: The Kariba loan talks 38
• 2 The Resettlement: Planning and Implementation 52
• 2.1 African development and the resettlement question 52
• 2.2 A dam against the 'primitive': White discourse about the Gwembe Tonga 60
• 2.3 Renegotiating African development: The resettlement in Northern Rhodesia 66
• 2.4 The 'efficiency' of settler rule: The resettlement in Southern Rhodesia 80
• 3 Intervening in the Kariba Dam Project 92
• 3.1 In the middle of development: Hezekiah Habanyama and the Gwembe Tonga Native Authority 92
• 3.2 Struggling with development: The perspectives of the Gwembe Tonga 107
• 3.3 A black dam for the people: Nationalist and left-wing critiques 128
• 4 Building the Kariba Dam 153
• 4.1 A microcosm of the modern nation: Controlling the Kariba construction site 154
• 4.2 Coping, protesting, improving their lives: Kariba's workers 184
• 5 The End of Joint Development: Planning Lake Kariba 214.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781137268761
• 113726876X

OCLC:

843124188