Sacred Waters: Historical Ecology, Power, and the Soul of the Blue Nile

Date de début:

07 Juin 2016 - 16:00

Type d'événement:

Séminaire

Publié ici :

08 Juin 2016

Mis à jour le :

11 Septembre 2017

Mots-clefs:

Nil
fleuve
environnement
ecology
Ecología
poder
Soul
Alma
azul
Blue
History
histoire
memory
testament
Will
English
anglais (langue)
biblioteca
Library
Ethiopian

Zone géographique:

Afrique

ISIDORE Handle:

10670/1.pjdlu4

CFEE Seminar Past and Present: History, Memory and Heritage (2015-2016)

6th session: Sacred Waters: Historical Ecology, Power, and the Soul of the Blue Nile, par / by James C. McCANN (Boston University)

The lecture will be in English.

Venue : Berhanou Abebe Library of Ethiopian Studies (CFEE).

This lecture is a chance to talk about water and power –and to do that in two senses: First, is to talk about the use of water to generate electric power for a country and a transnational region. In this case the Blue Nile river is the moving body of water that empties the Ethiopian highlands as it flows west and then north to Sudan and Egypt and feeds the overall Nile watershed. Second, is to talk about water and power in the sense of people’s beliefs about water, its meaning, its spirit, and control of it. I want to argue here that people (s) believe about the power of water may be as important as its reality. We seek to understand, in a full sense, one of the world’s truly great hydraulic systems in its human and its geopolitical value. There are many ways to seek to absorb water’s power and meaning. I am part of a team here that seeks to explore a new form of ecological science that we are calling CHANS (Coupled Human and Natural Systems). This approach is about biological and geographic interactions, over time and different places –showing a full variety of the human and natural conundra in this mix for policy choices.

The speaker

James C. McCann is a Professor of History at Boston University, specialized in Ethiopian and African environmental history. He is author of several major books in this field of research (From Poverty to Famine in Northeast Ethiopia: A Rural History, 1987 ; People of the Plow: An Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1995 ; Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1999 ; Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New World Crop, 2005) and more recently The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia, 2015. At Boston Universiy, he is now Associate Director for Development, African Studies Center, and Faculty Fellow at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future.

Convenors of the seminar series 2015-2016: Belete Bizuneh (AAU, History Dept.), Deresse Ayenachew (Debre Berhan University, History and Heritage Management Dept.), Thomas Guindeuil (CFEE), Margaux Herman (CFEE/IMAF), Kindeneh Endeg (AAU, IES), Shiferaw Bekele (AAU, History Dept.).

Photo: Blue Nile near Bahar Dar, Giustino, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Nile_near_Bahar_Dar.jpg).

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