Ecofutures in Africa: Jenny Robson's "Savannah 2116 AD"

Autor/in	Cloete, Elsie
Titel	Ecofutures in Africa: Jenny Robson's "Savannah 2116 AD"
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 40 (2009) 1, S.46-58 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-008-9080-x
Schlagwörter	Rezension; Young Adults; Foreign Countries; Novels; Animals; Discourse Analysis; Curriculum; Politics of Education; Conservation (Environment); Ecological Factors; Developing Nations; English Instruction; Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Ausland; Novel; Roman; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Diskursanalyse; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Ökologischer Ansatz; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Afrika
Abstract	Jenny Robson's "Savannah 2216 AD", a dark, futuristic novel for young adults, provides a strong critique on much of the world's predilection for saving Africa's animals at the expense of those human communities who are perceived to be in the way of the preservation of the continent's remaining wild spaces. Using Robson's novel as template, this article examines a few of those discourses regarding wilderness and conservation that have attached to Africa. "Savannah 2116 AD" strongly yet indirectly hints that literary educators should revisit the often unquestioned adoption of "greening" agendas in school curricula which persist in re-colonising geo-political spaces by ignoring the fact that erecting fences between perceived conservators and destroyers, between spaces for wild animals and humans, merely condemns Africa's animal riches to eventual death. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10