Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation
The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation
Authors: Tischler, J.
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- About this book
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'Modernisation' was one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Focusing on a case study of the Kariba Dam in central-southern Africa and based on an array of primary sources and interviews the book provides a nuanced understanding of development in the turbulent late 1950s, a time when most colonies moved towards independence.
- About the authors
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Julia Tischler is a Researcher in African History at the International Research Center 'Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History' at Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany. Her PhD dissertation, on which her monograph is based, received the Hedwig-Hintze-Prize for the best doctoral thesis in History, awarded every two years by the German Historical Association (Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands).
- Reviews
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"This was a book that needed to be written....It exists as an important addition to the historiography of development in sub-Saharan Africa." - Margaret Mielke, Modern African Studies
"Light and Power tells in great and effective detail the story of a dam and a colonial moment. Tischler argues that the dam itself has been underreported in historical literature. Her book addresses that lacuna." - James C. McCann, American History Review
"The great strength of this study is the author's success in writing an 'entangled history' of Kariba, which emphasizes the ways that the ideas, practices, strategies, and understandings of the competing protagonists are constructed as part of a set cross-cultural interactions located within an asymmetrical field of power. Her notion of 'entangled history,' derived from a broad reading of post-colonial and subaltern studies, allows Tischler to moved beyond the familiar binaries of 'colonized and colonizer,' 'black and white,' 'resistors and collaborators,' and 'colonial and post-colonial.' She presents a more nuanced and complicated analysis of the ambiguous, and at times, contradictory, roles which many of the principal protagonists played in the unfolding drama of national building and modernization at both the local, national and global levels." - Allen Isaacman, African Studies Quarterly
"Tischler demonstrates very clearly how, as the impulses that first stimulated Federation began to wane, the Kariba Dam project supremely embodied the contradictory nature of development in late colonial Africa." - Kate Law, African Affairs
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-19
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Planning Kariba
Pages 20-51
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The Resettlement: Planning and Implementation
Pages 52-91
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Intervening in the Kariba Dam Project
Pages 92-152
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Building the Kariba Dam
Pages 153-213
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Light and Power for a Multiracial Nation
- Book Subtitle
- The Kariba Dam Scheme in the Central African Federation
- Authors
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- J. Tischler
- Series Title
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-26877-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137268778
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-26876-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-44361-1
- Series ISSN
- 2635-1633
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 323
- Topics
