A Finger on the Pulse of the Fly: Hidden Voices of Colonial Anti-Tsetse Science on the Rhodesian and Mozambican Borderlands, 1945–1956

Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa; Spierenburg, Marja

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“…In the 1990s, due to climatic conditions and changing geo-political relations, cattle ranching was no longer considered an economically viable activity in the Lowveld, and the "sustainable use" of wildlife was suggested as an alternative industry, a so-called "wildlife-based mode of production" (Brandt, 2013). This required that the area that had earlier basically been "cleared and cleansed" of wildlife for reasons of making cattle farming possible (including killing wildlife as a means of tsetse fly control, see Mavhunga and Spierenburg, 2007) be restocked with wildlife. This restocking took place by bringing in wildlife from other wildlife areas in Zimbabwe by means of translocation.…”

Section: "Translocation"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“Animals like us”: revisiting organizational ethnography and research

Wels¹

2015

Journal of Organizational Ethnography

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -Now that the human-animal distinction is increasingly critiqued from various disciplinary perspectives, to the point where some suggest even letting go of the distinction completely, the purpose of this paper is to argue that organizational ethnography should start to explore in more detail what this means for organizational ethnographic research, theory and analysis to include non-human animals in it. Design/methodology/approach -Revisiting the author's earlier organizational ethnographic work in Zimbabwe on a private wildlife conservancy, an organization that was specifically set up for and around wildlife. At the same time these non-human animals were not taken into account methodologically nor featured at all in the empirical material or in the analysis. What could it mean for the analysis and conclusions if non-human animals would have been part of the equation? Findings -Since we live in a world shared between human and non-human animals, this also is true for the organizational lives. As scientific research increasingly shows that the distinction between human and non-human animals is more in degree than in kind it is interesting to note that nevertheless non-human animals usually produce deafening "silences" in organizational ethnographic work. Revisiting the author's earlier organizational ethnographic work in this context the author shows how taking non-human animals on board of the analysis radically alters the outcomes of the research. Research limitations/implications -This paper reports on revisiting the author's earlier ethnographic research, without actually doing the research itself again. In that sense it is a hypothetical study. Practical implications -Organizational ethnography might have to rethink what it would mean in terms of fieldwork methodologies if it would allow non-human animals as actual agentic stakeholders in the research and analysis. It would at least need to also think in terms of "research methodologies without words" as non-human animals cannot be interviewed. Social implications -The paper is based on a social justice perspective on human-animal relations. It tries to contribute to an intellectual argument to take non-human animal...

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Section: "Translocation"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“Animals like us”: revisiting organizational ethnography and research

Wels¹

2015

Journal of Organizational Ethnography

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“…Avec le retour des ongulés sauvages (ceux-ci ayant considérablement pâti de l'épizootie de peste bovine des années 1896-1898), de leur cortège de pathogènes et de vecteurs, de grandes campagnes d'abattage sont organisées (chasses de buffles essentiellement), avec l'appui des « chasseurs blancs » (Mavhunga et Spierenburg, 2007). À partir des années 1950, afin de protéger les troupeaux des colons de la fièvre aphteuse, la faune sauvage est contenue dans des réserves, par exemple dans le Sud-Est du pays.…”

Section: La Mise En Place D'un Régime Vétérinaire Colonial : Contenirunclassified

Sauvage et domestique, homme et animal

Figuié¹,

Binot²,

Caron³

2015

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La surveillance des animaux d’élevage relève d’enjeux multiples qui dépassent le simple contrôle de leurs performances de production et évoluent en fonction du contexte historique, social, politique et économique. Dans le cas de la Rhodésie du Sud (futur Zimbabwe), des dispositifs complexes de surveillance des animaux ont contribué à l’organisation et la sécurité territoriale de l’État colonial, et à son développement économique. Avec l’indépendance du pays, ils ont servi de base à l’organisation du contrôle de la fièvre aphteuse selon les normes internationales et permis de développer l’élevage pour l’exportation. Ces dispositifs reposent principalement sur une catégorisation et « séquestration géographique » du vivant : colon/indigène ; homme/animal ; domestique/sauvage ; sain/malsain. L’organisation de la surveillance va être bouleversée par les réformes foncières des années 2000 et son rétablissement remis en cause par la montée en puissance des concepts de biodiversité et « One Health », et la volonté d’intégrer les populations pauvres au développement économique. De nouveaux dispositifs de surveillance émergent (sous la forme de parcs transfrontaliers et de normes sanitaires de type « commodity based trade ») qui visent à associer davantage le contrôle des flux à celui des frontières et témoignent de continuités et discontinuités avec les catégories héritées de la période coloniale.

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“…However, over the past 10,000 years, there has been evidence of a drop in the effective population size (N e ) of S. c. caffer populations, coinciding with the increase in human populations [ 6 ]. Moreover, during the last two centuries, S. caffer has undergone a significant numerical reduction and shrinking of its distribution range due to war, disease, poaching [ 7 ], and expansion of livestock activity [ 8 ]. This species is now listed as “Near Threatened” due to population decline over extensive areas [ 9 ] (IUCN 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Genome-wide diversity, population structure and signatures of inbreeding in the African buffalo in Mozambique

Colangelo,

Di Civita,

Bento

et al. 2024

BMC Ecol Evo

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The African buffalo, Syncerus caffer, is a key species in African ecosystems. Like other large herbivores, it plays a fundamental role in its habitat acting as an ecosystem engineer. Over the last few centuries, African buffalo populations have declined because of range contraction and demographic decline caused by direct or indirect human activities. In Mozambique, historically home to large buffalo herds, the combined effect of colonialism and subsequent civil wars has created a critical situation that urgently needs to be addressed. In this study, we focused on the analysis of genetic diversity of Syncerus caffer caffer populations from six areas of Mozambique. Using genome-wide SNPs obtained from ddRAD sequencing, we examined the population structure across the country, estimated gene flow between areas under conservation management, including national reserves, and assessed the inbreeding coefficients. Our results indicate that all studied populations of Syncerus caffer caffer are genetically depauperate, with a high level of inbreeding. Moreover, buffaloes in Mozambique present a significant population differentiation between southern and central areas. We found an unexpected genotype in the Gorongosa National Park, where buffaloes experienced a dramatic population size reduction, that shares a common ancestry with southern populations of Catuane and Namaacha. This could suggest the past occurrence of a connection between southern and central Mozambique and that the observed population structuring could reflect recent events of anthropogenic origin. All the populations analysed showed high levels of homozygosity, likely due to extensive inbreeding over the last few decades, which could have increased the frequency of recessive deleterious alleles. Improving the resilience of Syncerus caffer caffer in Mozambique is essential for preserving the ecosystem integrity. The most viable approach appears to be facilitating translocations and re-establishing connectivity between isolated herds. However, our results also highlight the importance of assessing intraspecific genetic diversity when considering interventions aimed at enhancing population viability such as selecting suitable source populations.

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A Finger on the Pulse of the Fly: Hidden Voices of Colonial Anti-Tsetse Science on the Rhodesian and Mozambican Borderlands, 1945–1956

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

“Animals like us”: revisiting organizational ethnography and research

“Animals like us”: revisiting organizational ethnography and research

Sauvage et domestique, homme et animal

Genome-wide diversity, population structure and signatures of inbreeding in the African buffalo in Mozambique

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