{"product_id":"segregated-species-pests-knowledge-and-boudaries-in-south-africa-1910-1948","title":"SEGREGATED SPECIES, pests, knowledge, and boundaries in South Africa, 1910-1948","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e323pp., illus., maps, paperback,\u003c\/em\u003e First SA Edition, Wits University Press, Johannesburg, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781997461197\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in the USA in 2024. \u003cspan\u003eWinner of the First Book Prize by the Royal Historical Society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA timely history of the connections between science, racial segregation, and pest control in early twentieth-century South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJules Skotnes-Brown demonstrates that strategies for the containment of pests were redeployed for the management of humans and vice versa, and that the history of South Africa - and colonial history generally - cannot be fully understood without analysing the treatment of both animals and humans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Segregated Species\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly shows the racialized and scientifically dubious grounds on which South Africa's much-lauded conservation record rests. As Jules Skotnes-Brown illustrates in this wonderful book, distinctions and boundaries between charismatic animals and pests have always been fundamentally political. They have always been about who has the power to name and, therefore, to segregate.\" \u003cspan class=\"byline\"\u003eJacob S. T. Dlamini, Princeton University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Our understanding of South Africa's natural world was a hard-fought negotiation between competing camps, especially between scientists and vernacular experts. Skotnes-Brown shows us how animals were also agentic actors in this fractured and fractious process. He delineates the toxic taxonomies that lay behind 'vermin' and 'pest' as categories. A powerful book with significant implications for how we address human-animal conflict today.\" \u003cspan class=\"byline\"\u003eSandra Swart, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lion's Historian: Africa's Animal Past\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"byline\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJules Skotnes-Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e is a historian of science,  medicine, and the environment. He is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Skotnes-Brown (J.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42285219610670,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0265\/3182\/3662\/files\/SegregatedSpecies.jpg?v=1776790069","url":"https:\/\/clarkesbooks.co.za\/products\/segregated-species-pests-knowledge-and-boudaries-in-south-africa-1910-1948","provider":"Clarke's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}