6. Ferricrete, Forests, and Temporal Scale in the Production of Colonial Science in Africa

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1. Production of Environmental Knowledge: Scientists, Complex Natures, and the Question of Agency
5. Introduction 25
6. 1. Politicizing Environmental Explanations: What Can Political Ecology Learn from Sociology and Philosophy of Science? 31
7. 2. Debating the Science of Using Marine Turtles: Boundary Work among Species Experts 47
8. 3. Technobiological Imaginaries: How Do Systems Biologists Know Nature? 65
9. 4. Agency, Structuredness, and the Production of Knowledge within Intersecting Processes 81
10. 5. Fermentation, Rot, and Other Human- Microbial Performances 99
11. 6. Ferricrete, Forests, and Temporal Scale in the Production of Colonial Science in Africa 113
12. Part 2. Application of Environmental Knowledge: The Politics of Constructing Society/Nature
13. Introduction 129
14. 7. “We Don’t Harvest Animals; We Kill Them”: Agricultural Metaphors and the Politics of Wildlife Management in the Yukon 135
15. 8. Political Violence and Scientific Forestry: Emergencies, Insurgencies, and Counterinsurgencies in Southeast Asia 152
16. 9. Spatial- Geographic Models of Water Scarcity and Supply in Irrigation Engineering and Management: Bolivia, 1952–2009 167
17. 10. The Politics of Connectivity across Human- Occupied Landscapes: Corridors near Nairobi National Park, Kenya 186
18. Part 3. Circulation of Environmental Knowledge: Networks, Expertise, and Science in Practice
19. Introduction 203
20. 11. Rooted Networks, Webs of Relation, and the Power of Situated Science: Bringing the Models Back Down to Earth in Zambrana 209
21. 12. Circulating Science, Incompletely Regulating Commodities: Governing from a Distance in Transnational Agro- Food Networks 227
22. 13. Reclaiming the Technological Imagination: Water, Power, and Place in India 244
23. 14. Circulating Knowledge, Constructing Expertise 263
24. 15. Experiments as “Performances”: Interpreting Farmers’ Soil Fertility Management Practices in Western Kenya 280
25. Conclusion 297
26. References 305
27. List of Contributors 343
28. Index 345