Landscaping Africa : the politics of place and belonging in Senegal / Michael C. Lambert.

Main entry:

Lambert, Michael C., 1960- author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Title & Author:

Landscaping Africa : the politics of place and belonging in Senegal / Michael C. Lambert.

Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2026]
©2026

Description:

ix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Frontierlands -- Boundary and border -- Bordering nations -- Citizenship and borders -- A French urban foothold on Africa -- Using the urban to define the rural -- Blurring the rural and the urban -- Establishing the border -- Negotiating the border -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"How has European imperialism (re)made the world? How can we understand this long process and its consequences in ways that capture both the materiality and the subjectivity of political domination? Inspired by Frantz Fanon's insight that colonization entails the (re)crafting of geographic space, Landscaping Africa develops the concept of "landscaping" to explore the enduring global impact of European imperialism. Written by an Indigenous anthropologist, this book also demonstrates how Indigenous peoples, in Africa and beyond, are building upon and tearing apart European colonial projects. Michael C. Lambert probes three cases of landscaping involving the West African nation of Senegal: the forging of an international border between Senegal and Mauritania, the imposition of rural-urban distinctions, and the deployment of immigration policy to divide the Global North and South. This book illuminates how borders and boundaries are made, and made meaningful, through domination, resistance, and struggles over belonging"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780520416512 hardcover
0520416511 hardcover
9780520416536 paperback
0520416538 paperback
electronic book
9780520416543

Subject:

Imperialism.
Senegal Boundaries.
Senegal Colonial influence.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room new acquisitions 325660
Call No.: 325660
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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