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Title:
Decolonising geography? : disciplinary histories and the end of the British empire in Africa, 1948-1998
Author:
Craggs, Ruth, author.
ISBN:
9781119549352

9781119549338

9781119549369
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
Series:
RGS-IBG book series

RGS-IBG book series.
Contents:
Decolonisation and geography in Africa -- 'New, interesting and even exciting opportunities' : geography and the founding of colonial universities in Africa -- Shifting the centre : Africanising geography in decolonisation -- International networks, decolonisation and the Cold War -- Geography and national development : knowing, planning and exploiting Resources for independent Africa -- Geography and anti-apartheid activism in South Africa -- Legacies of decolonisation in African and British geography -- Decolonising geography past and present?
Abstract:
"How did a generation of academic geographers engage with constitutional decolonisation during the end of the British empire in Africa? In Decolonising Geography: Disciplinary Histories and the End of the British Empire in Africa, 1948-1998, Ruth Craggs and Hannah Neate explore how the teaching, research, administration and activism of geographers in Africa shaped the discipline and the post-colonial geopolitics of the continent. The authors follow the professional lives of individual geographers to provide fresh insights into decolonisation in the former British Empire in Africa, drawing from extensive archival research and more than 40 oral history interviews with geographers in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and the UK. Decolonising Geography is a must-read for any reader in the UK and Africa with an interest in the relationships between geography and decolonisation."--Provided by publisher.
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John Wiley and Sons
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