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Water Brings No Harm: Management Knowledge and the Struggle for the Waters of Kilimanjaro

by Matthew V. Bender
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780821423585
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Ohio University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Ohio University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 352
  • Original Price: GBP 64.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 613 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Historical Geography

In Water Brings No Harm, Matthew V. Bender explores the history of community water management on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro's Chagga-speaking peoples have long managed water by employing diverse knowledge: hydrological, technological, social, cultural, and political. Since the 1850s, they have encountered groups from beyond the mountain--colonial officials, missionaries, settlers, the independent Tanzanian state, development agencies, and climate scientists--who have understood water differently. Drawing on the concept of waterscapes--a term that describes how people "see" water, and how physical water resources intersect with their own beliefs, needs, and expectations--Bender argues that water conflicts should be understood as struggles between competing forms of knowledge.

Water Brings No Harm encourages readers to think about the origins and interpretation of knowledge and development in Africa and the global south. It also speaks to the current global water crisis, proposing a new model for approaching sustainable water development worldwide.

Matthew V. Bender is associate professor of history at the College of New Jersey. He is a specialist in modern African history, environmental history, and water history.

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