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Landscaping Africa

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How has European imperialism (re)made the world? How can we understand this long process and its consequences in ways that capture both the materiality and the subjectivity of political domination?...
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  • 02 June 2026
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How has European imperialism (re)made the world? How can we understand this long process and its consequences in ways that capture both the materiality and the subjectivity of political domination? Inspired by Frantz Fanon's insight that colonization entails the (re)crafting of geographic space, Landscaping Africa develops the concept of "landscaping" to explore the enduring global impact of European imperialism. Written by an Indigenous anthropologist, this book also demonstrates how Indigenous peoples, in Africa and beyond, are building upon and tearing apart European colonial projects. Michael C. Lambert probes three cases of landscaping involving the West African nation of Senegal: the forging of an international border between Senegal and Mauritania, the imposition of rural-urban distinctions, and the deployment of immigration policy to divide the Global North and South. This book illuminates how borders and boundaries are made, and made meaningful, through domination, resistance, and struggles over belonging.
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Price: $29.95
Pages: 252
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 02 June 2026
ISBN: 9780520416543
Format: eBook
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Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

Part One. The River

1. Frontierlands

2. Boundary and Border

3. Bordering Nations

4. Citizenship and Borders

Part Two. The Road

5. A French Urban Foothold on Africa

6. Using the Urban to Define the Rural

7. Blurring the Rural and the Urban

Part Three. The Ocean

8. Establishing the Border

9. Negotiating the Border

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index