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Light and power for a multiracial nation = the Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Light and power for a multiracial nation/ Julia Tischler.
Reminder of title:	the Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation /
Author:	Tischler, Julia.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource.
[NT 15003449]:	PART I: PLANNING KARIBA -- 1. Global High Modernism and the Kariba Dam Scheme -- 2. 'Scientific' Decision-Making? -- 3. Developing a Powerful White Nation -- 4. Negotiating Development: the Kariba Loan Talks -- PART II: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING THE RESETTLEMENT -- 5. African Development and the Resettlement Question -- 6. A Dam Against the 'Primitive': White Discourse about the Gwembe Tonga -- 7. Renegotiating African Development: the Resettlement in Northern Rhodesia -- 8. The 'Efficiency' of Settler Rule: the Resettlement in Southern Rhodesia -- PART III: INTERVENING IN THE KARIBA DAM PROJECT -- 9. In the Middle of Development: Hezekiah Habanyama and the Gwembe Tonga Native Authority -- 10. Struggling with Development: the Perspectives of the Gwembe Tonga -- 11. A Black Dam for the People: Nationalist and Left-wing Critiques -- PART IV: BUILDING THE KARIBA DAM -- 12. A Microcosm of the Modern Nation: Controlling the Kariba Construction Site -- 13. Coping, Protesting, Improving their Lives: Kariba's Workers -- PART V: THE END OF JOINT DEVELOPMENT: PLANNING LAKE KARIBA.
Subject:	Dams - Economic aspects - Zambia. -
Subject:	Kariba Dam (Zambia and Zimbabwe) -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137268778An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9781137268778 (electronic bk.)

Light and power for a multiracial nation = the Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation /
Tischler, Julia.

Light and power for a multiracial nationthe Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation /[electronic resource] :Julia Tischler. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: PLANNING KARIBA -- 1. Global High Modernism and the Kariba Dam Scheme -- 2. 'Scientific' Decision-Making? -- 3. Developing a Powerful White Nation -- 4. Negotiating Development: the Kariba Loan Talks -- PART II: PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING THE RESETTLEMENT -- 5. African Development and the Resettlement Question -- 6. A Dam Against the 'Primitive': White Discourse about the Gwembe Tonga -- 7. Renegotiating African Development: the Resettlement in Northern Rhodesia -- 8. The 'Efficiency' of Settler Rule: the Resettlement in Southern Rhodesia -- PART III: INTERVENING IN THE KARIBA DAM PROJECT -- 9. In the Middle of Development: Hezekiah Habanyama and the Gwembe Tonga Native Authority -- 10. Struggling with Development: the Perspectives of the Gwembe Tonga -- 11. A Black Dam for the People: Nationalist and Left-wing Critiques -- PART IV: BUILDING THE KARIBA DAM -- 12. A Microcosm of the Modern Nation: Controlling the Kariba Construction Site -- 13. Coping, Protesting, Improving their Lives: Kariba's Workers -- PART V: THE END OF JOINT DEVELOPMENT: PLANNING LAKE KARIBA.

The Kariba Dam, stretching across the Zambezi River between today's Zambia and Zimbabwe, was one of the most famous development projects in Africa in the late 1950s. As a producer of abundant and cheap power, Kariba was to boost the economy of the newly established Central African Federation. The book shows how the dam project crystallised both the hopes and the flaws of the Federation, a highly controversial experiment of 'multiracial' nation-building by which the British colonial power meant to appease both settler and African aspirations for independence. The author sketches the perspectives of a great variety of people involved in the Kariba project, including World Bank experts, colonial administrators, the local population, nationalist politicians, and the workers building the dam. By drawing out what these different groups imagined a 'developed nation' to be like and how they tried to put their visions into practice, the study provides a nuanced understanding of one of the most pervasive ideologies of the twentieth century. Refraining from both uncritical praise and blanket condemnations, the author draws out the fundamental ambivalence at the heart of modernisation, oscillating between empowerment and domination.

ISBN: 9781137268778 (electronic bk.)

Source: 630658Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

1977634
Dams
--Economic aspects--Zambia.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

1977633
Kariba Dam (Zambia and Zimbabwe)
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD1699.Z33 / L54 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 621.31/2134

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