- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- An Afrikan centered critique of European global environment and development cultural politics: A political ecology case study of Madagasikara, 1997
- Creator:
- Smith, Gejuanna
Zakiya, Afia Serwaa - Date of Original:
- 1997-02
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- Madagascar, -20.03085, 45.695
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This study focuses on the politics of European global environment and development ideologies, philosophies, and policies and explores the emerging complex socio-cultural and economic issues therein from an Afrikan centered approach. The objective of this study was to demystify the global European neocolonial and imperialist political ecology agenda, accent on Afrika. A political ecology case study of Madagasikara was conducted which included a seven month field stay in Ambodirotro, Madagasikara. The paticular ecological focus was on the construction of the causes and impact of deforestation at the local and national levels. Significant results showed that the politics of ecology in Afrika is dialectically related to: 1) the historical ethnic, class, gender, and natural resource conflicts between Europeans and Afrikans, 2) the global consequences of changing state and market forces and global power relations, and, 3) the differences in Afrikan and European culture, cosmology and world view, and the symbolic meanings each attributes to nature and human-nature relationships. A call for indigenous Afrikans to regain their ancestral lands was made.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1997_smith_gejuanna
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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