Decolonising Geography? Disciplinary Histories and the End of the British Empire in Africa, 1948-1998

TY - BOOK

T1 - Decolonising Geography? Disciplinary Histories and the End of the British Empire in Africa, 1948-1998

AU - Craggs, Ruth

AU - Neate, Hannah

PY - 2023/10

Y1 - 2023/10

N2 - Decolonising geography and the university have become key issues in the twenty first century, but how did a generation of geographers working against the backdrop of the end of the British empire in Africa engage with the process through their research, teaching, administration and activism? Taking a biographical approach, and focusing on geographers in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and the UK, the book begins with the setting up of colonial universities in the 1940s, and examines the impacts of constitutional change, the Cold War, projects of postcolonial national development, and structural adjustment, as well as apartheid and transformation in South Africa. Highlighting the contributions of African scholars, the book concludes by exploring what we might learn, for our contemporary struggles, from the experiences of an earlier generation of geographers grappling with decolonisation.

AB - Decolonising geography and the university have become key issues in the twenty first century, but how did a generation of geographers working against the backdrop of the end of the British empire in Africa engage with the process through their research, teaching, administration and activism? Taking a biographical approach, and focusing on geographers in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and the UK, the book begins with the setting up of colonial universities in the 1940s, and examines the impacts of constitutional change, the Cold War, projects of postcolonial national development, and structural adjustment, as well as apartheid and transformation in South Africa. Highlighting the contributions of African scholars, the book concludes by exploring what we might learn, for our contemporary struggles, from the experiences of an earlier generation of geographers grappling with decolonisation.

KW - Decolonisation

KW - AFRICA

KW - Geography

KW - history of geography

KW - British Empire

M3 - Book

T3 - Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers

BT - Decolonising Geography? Disciplinary Histories and the End of the British Empire in Africa, 1948-1998

PB - John Wiley and Sons Ltd Wiley-Blackwell

ER -