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121	Wattle we do? alien eradication and the 'ecology of fear' on the fringes of a world heritage site, South Africa Merron, James Lawrence January 2010 (has links) In their article ―Naturing the Nation: Aliens, the Apocalypse and the Post Colonial State (2001) Jean and John Comaroff look at ―the contemporary predicament of South Africa through the prism of environmental catastrophe. Through it they reveal the context in which alien plants have become an urgent affair of the state. Following their lead, I show how alien plants (particularly Australian wattle) continue to provide grounds for new social and political aspirations in South Africa, though in a different setting. With reference to a group of private landowners on the fringe of a World Heritage Site -- the Baviaanskloof Mega-Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa -- I show how an increasingly apocalyptic and xenophobic environmental agenda has influenced local activists seeking to address social and ecological issues in tandem with alien-eradication. These local activists adhere to a particular brand of environmentalism which Milton (1993) argues can be considered a social, cultural and religious phenomenon. The subjects of my main empirical investigation offer practical ways of achieving a transformational end through a new ritual activity in relation to a spread and exchange of environmental ideas and practices on a world-wide scale. On the ground this group practices ecosocietal restoration through which they aspire to mend the bond between people and the land in a spiritual and moral sense, bolstering intrinsic incentives for environmental stewardship and achieving ―cultural reconciliation in an attempt to reimagine what South Africa could be.
122	Pitfalls of national development and reconstruction : an ethical appraisal of socio-economic transformation in post-war Mozambique Matsinhe, David Mário 06 1900 (has links) Mozambique is undergoing intensive socio-economic reforms to reconstruct war damages and develop the nation. The reforms consist of economic liberalisation through structural adjustment and monetarist economic stabilisation, e.g. government withdrawal from economic activities, privatisation, deregulation, reduction of tariff levels on imports and tax on investments, cuts of expenditure on social services, restrictive credit system, focus on monetarism, increased taxation on individual income, etc. The nature of these reforms, on the surface, leads to morally questionable conditions. There is social chaos and disintegration, high indices of corruption, subtle recolonisation, decline of civil services, etc. At the bottom lie the market ethics and fundamentalist theological discourse by dint of which the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund deny historical consciousness, lack institutional memory, vest themselves with unquestionable international authority, dictate and impose policies without accountability for the social consequences. If there is any hope for Mozambicans, it lies in development ethics which relies heavily on the liberation motif, historical consciousness, and African Heritage. / Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Theological Ethics) Mozambican government Socio-economic transformation International Monetary Fund Economic stabilisation World Bank Structural adjustment Social disintegration Recolonisation Forced labour Human capital African heritage Liberation theology Development ethics Credit Inflation Wages Civil services Market ethics 306.309679 Constitutional history -- Mozambique Human rights -- Mozambique Government, Resistance to -- Mozambique Change Social change -- Mozambique Social ecology -- Mozambique Economic anthropology -- Mozambique Mozambique -- Social conditions -- 1975- Mozambique -- Moral conditions -- 1975- Mozambique -- Economic policy -- 1975- Mozambique -- History -- 1975-
123	Pitfalls of national development and reconstruction : an ethical appraisal of socio-economic transformation in post-war Mozambique Matsinhe, David Mário 06 1900 (has links) Mozambique is undergoing intensive socio-economic reforms to reconstruct war damages and develop the nation. The reforms consist of economic liberalisation through structural adjustment and monetarist economic stabilisation, e.g. government withdrawal from economic activities, privatisation, deregulation, reduction of tariff levels on imports and tax on investments, cuts of expenditure on social services, restrictive credit system, focus on monetarism, increased taxation on individual income, etc. The nature of these reforms, on the surface, leads to morally questionable conditions. There is social chaos and disintegration, high indices of corruption, subtle recolonisation, decline of civil services, etc. At the bottom lie the market ethics and fundamentalist theological discourse by dint of which the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund deny historical consciousness, lack institutional memory, vest themselves with unquestionable international authority, dictate and impose policies without accountability for the social consequences. If there is any hope for Mozambicans, it lies in development ethics which relies heavily on the liberation motif, historical consciousness, and African Heritage. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Theological Ethics) Mozambican government Socio-economic transformation International Monetary Fund Economic stabilisation World Bank Structural adjustment Social disintegration Recolonisation Forced labour Human capital African heritage Liberation theology Development ethics Credit Inflation Wages Civil services Market ethics 306.309679 Constitutional history -- Mozambique Human rights -- Mozambique Government, Resistance to -- Mozambique Change Social change -- Mozambique Social ecology -- Mozambique Economic anthropology -- Mozambique Mozambique -- Social conditions -- 1975- Mozambique -- Moral conditions -- 1975- Mozambique -- Economic policy -- 1975- Mozambique -- History -- 1975-

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