Shadows in an African Twilight
Shadows in an African Twilight

Author: Kevin Thomas

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2014-01-29

Total Pages: 1123

ISBN-13: 1783013419

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An exciting autobiography about the life of a game ranger, Special Force soldier and professional hunter in Southern Africa. The book also ends with a discerning look into the work of contract Security Escort Teams in Iraq where the author spent two years.

Fighting and Writing
Fighting and Writing

Author: Luise White

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2021-02-08

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1478021284

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In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964–1979 Zimbabwean liberation struggle. In the memoirs of white soldiers fighting to defend white minority rule in Africa long after other countries were independent, White finds a robust and contentious conversation about race, difference, and the war itself. These are writings by men who were ambivalent conscripts, generally aware of the futility of their fight—not brutal pawns flawlessly executing the orders and parroting the rhetoric of a racist regime. Moreover, most of these men insisted that the most important aspects of fighting a guerrilla war—tracking and hunting, knowledge of the land and of the ways of African society—were learned from black playmates in idealized rural childhoods. In these memoirs, African guerrillas never lost their association with the wild, even as white soldiers boasted of bringing Africans into the intimate spaces of regiment and regime.

African Twilight
African Twilight

Author: Robert F. Jones

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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African Twilight details, in twelve stunning stories, the hunts, the danger, and the changing face of Africa over a span of three decades. It also traces the evolution of a hunter -- Robert F. Jones -- and his relationship with the professional hunters, the native Africans, the wildlife and the land, the Africa that was, and Africa as it is today. African Twilight is illustrated with original woodcuts by Steven C. Daiber, executed in the finest tradition of African art.

Warfare and Tracking in Africa, 1952–1990
Warfare and Tracking in Africa, 1952–1990

Author: Timothy J Stapleton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1317316894

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During the decolonization wars in East and Southern Africa, tracking became increasingly valuable as a military tactic. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Stapleton presents a comparative study of the role of tracking in insurgency and counter-insurgency across Kenya, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Posthumanism and the Man Question
Posthumanism and the Man Question

Author: Ulf Mellström

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1000824330

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This book brings together the emerging insights of what posthumanism, new materialism and affect theory mean for ‘the man question’. The contributors to this book interrogate the question of how ‘Man’ as a gendered being is entangled with nature, culture, materiality and corporeality, and they explore ways to unsettle men’s sense of sovereignty to decentre anthropocentric masculinity. Men have to move from the centre of privilege which grants them supremacy before they can open themselves to the decentred, embodied, affective, vulnerable and relational self that is necessary to embrace the posthuman. This book explores the extent to which this is possible. The book will be of interest to academics, students and scholars across a range of disciplines who are engaging with the intersections of feminist studies with posthumanism and new materialism, especially as they relate to critical studies of men and masculinities. Chapters on fathering, pornography, ageing, affect, embodiment, entanglements with technology and nature and the implications of these issues for changing men and masculinities and the politics of critical masculinity studies’ engagement with posthuman feminisms will interest students and academics across these diverse disciplines.

Contemporary Perspectives on Ecofeminism
Contemporary Perspectives on Ecofeminism

Author: Mary Phillips

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-11-19

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1317697219

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Why is ecofeminism still needed to address the environmental emergencies and challenges of our times? Ecofeminism has a chequered history in terms of its popularity and its perceived value in conceptualizing the relationship between gender and nature as well as feeding forms of activism that aim to confront the environmental challenges of the moment. This book provides a much-needed comprehensive overview of the relevance and value of using eco-feminist theories. It gives a broad coverage of traditional and emerging eco-feminist theories and explores, across a range of chapters, their various contributions and uniquely spans various strands of ecofeminist thinking. The origins of influential eco-feminist theories are discussed including key themes and some of its leading figures (contributors include Erika Cudworth, Greta Gaard, Trish Glazebrook and Niamh Moore), and outlines its influence on how scholars might come to a more generative understanding of the natural environment. The book examines eco-feminism’s potential contribution for advancing current discussions and research on the relationships between the humans and more than humans that share our world. This timely volume makes a distinctive scholarly contribution and is a valuable resources for students and academics in the fields of environmentalism, political ecology, sustainability and nature resource management.