The Nature of Whiteness Race, Animals, and Nation in Zimbabwe / Yuka Suzuki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suzuki, Yuka, author.

Series:

Culture, place, and nature.

Culture, place, and nature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildlife management.

White people--Race identity.

Race relations.

Nature conservation.

Wildlife management--Zimbabwe.

Nature conservation--Zimbabwe.

White people--Race identity--Zimbabwe.

White people.

Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, [Washington] ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 2017.

Summary:

"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." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Foreword / by K. Sivaramakrishnan

The leopard's black and white spots

A short settler history

Black baboons and white rubbish trees

Reinstating nature, reinventing morality

The uses of animals

Wildlife contested.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295999555

0295999551

OCLC:

973325234