Space Is the Ultimate Luxury

Capitalists, Conservationists, and Ancestral Land in Namibia
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71244-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

The Open Access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

This book explores the history, ecology, and society of a seemingly inhospitable stretch of land along the Orange River in southern Namibia. Here, a group of African farmers have succeeded against all odds to stay on their ancestral homeland through decades of colonialism and apartheid.

The twenty-first century, however, has brought different people looking to evict them: nature conservationists. These farmers face off against billionaire gemstone mine owners, rhinoceros veterinarians and carbon finance executives, seeking to prove their legal and moral claims to their ancestral lands. This book reveals how we got here and what is at stake if they fail.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Bernard C

Lenggenhager, Luregn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Bergbau, Hüttenwesen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard C. Moore, (PhD), is currently Lecturer of African History at Alma College in Michigan, USA. His research concerns the economic and environmental history of agriculture and land in southern Africa. He has previously taught history at Michigan State University and at the University of Namibia.

Luregn Lenggenhager, (PhD), is an environmental historian, currently based at the Global South Studies Centre, University of Cologne. He has published on land, borders, and nature conservation in southern Africa, engaging with multispecies histories and political ecology. He is involved in collaborative research and teaching projects with the University of Basel and the University of Namibia.