Eroding the Commons: The politics of ecology in Baringo, Kenya 1890–1963, by David M. Anderson. Oxford: James Currey, 2002. xvi + 336 pp. £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0852554699 (hardback); £16.95 paperback. ISBN 0852554680 (paperback).
Eroding the Commons: The politics of ecology in Baringo, Kenya 1890–1963, by David M. Anderson. Oxford: James Currey, 2002. xvi + 336 pp. £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0852554699 (hardback); £16.95 paperback. ISBN 0852554680 (paperback).
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《侵蚀公地：1890-1963 年肯尼亚巴林戈的生态政治》，大卫·M·安德森 (David M. Anderson)，牛津：詹姆斯·柯里 (James Currey)，2002 年，第 336 页，精装本，售价 45.00 英镑（精装本，ISBN 0852554680，售价 16.95 英镑）。 （平装）。
DOI：
10.1093/afraf/adi095
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发表时间：
2006
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2.8
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D. Brockington
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作者：
D. Brockington
巴林戈区是肯尼亚中西部裂谷底部的一片干旱的低地牧场。长期以来，它一直被描绘成一场侵蚀灾难，一场由非洲牧民不适当的放牧及其土地所有权和管理造成的沙漠。巴林戈一直是改革政府和决心拯救土地并使其更具生产力的管理者与显然顽固的农民和牧民之间无数冲突的背景。这本书的部分目的是展示巴林戈退化叙事中的缺陷，但也是为了展示它是如何产生的，非洲牧民对如此多的破坏负有责任的想法是如何产生的，以及为什么它一直存在。
Baringo District is a dry area of lowland pasture in the floor of the Rift Valley in west central Kenya. It has long been portrayed as an erosion disaster, a desert created by the inadequate husbandry of African pastoralists and their land ownership and management. Baringo has been the setting of numerous conflicts between reforming governments and administrators bent on saving the land and making it more productive, and apparently recalcitrant farmers and pastoralists. The purpose of this book is partly to demonstrate the flaws in Baringo’s degradation narrative, but also to show how it came about, how the idea that African herders were responsible for so much damage came to be, and why it has stuck.