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6 - The Politics of Encapsulation: Game Protection, Instituting Borders, and Controlling Mobility

from Part 3 - Encapsulation and Pastoralisation, 1900s to 1940s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2020

Michael Bollig
Affiliation:
University of Cologne
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Chapter 6 details how the administration since the mid 1920s sought to encapsulate north-western Namibia. Boundaries were enforced and wide no-man's lands were established to prevent cross-boundary mobility: mobility into southern Angola, mobility into the western margins of the Cuvelai delta, and mobility to the south. The encapsulation of north-west Namibia went along with enforced measures of veterinary control and trade restrictions: herders were forcefully confined to subsistence pastoralism and the spatial reach was massively restricted.

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Shaping the African Savannah
From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia
, pp. 106 - 150
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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