The mobile workshop. The Tsetse fly and African knowledge production.

Contents
Preface: Before We Begin …
	Acknowledgments
Introducing Mhesvi and Ruzivo Rwemhesvi
	Mhesvi in Dzimbahwe
	Pestiferous Mobilities of Mhesvi
	Thingification
	Deintellectualization
	Self-Reintellectualization
	The Mobile Workshop
	Outline of the Book Chapters
1 How Vanhu Managed Tsetse
	Strategic Deployments
	Mhesvi Management Techniques: A Survey
2 Translation into Science and Policy
	Translation: How Local Knowledge Moved into Western Science
	The Language of Translation
3 Knowing a Fly
	Why Did Hurumende Become Interested in Knowing Mhesvi?
	What Kind of Infrastructure Did Knowing Mhesvi Entail?
	Putting a Finger on the Pulse of the Fly
	Sengwa Field Research Station
	Conclusion
4 How to Trap a Fly
	Attracting the Fly
	Sticky Traps
	Insecticide Treatment
	Electric Traps
	Conclusion: Converging Forms of Knowledge and Practices
5 Attacking the Fly from Within: Parasitization and Sterilization
	Parasitization: Nyongororo as Weapon
	Sterilizing the Male Tsetse
	Conclusion: Rhodesia’s Tsetse Research in the Global Context
6 Exposing the Fly to Its Enemies
	Fire and Late Season Burning
	Mechanical Forest Clearance
	Chemical and Mechanized Phytocides
	Bulldozers, Chainsaws, and Preexisting Methods
	Questioning Discriminative Clearance
	Conclusion: The Machine in the Garden, The Bulldozer in the Countryside
7 Cordon Sanitaire: Prophylactic Settlement
	Cordons Sanitaire: Fencing as a Prophylactic Infrastructure
	Resettlement as a Prophylactic
	Vatema’s Experiences of Prophylactic Resettlement
	Conclusion
8 Traffic Control: A Surveillance System for Unwanted Passengers
	How Mhesvi Determined if a Person Rode or Walked
	The Automobile and Mhesvi
	The Iron Tortoise and the Inciter
	Carried Fly: The Mhesvi Passenger and Traffic Cleansing
	Conclusion: Transport Systems and Dangerous Insects
9 Starving the Fly
	The Origins of Magocha
	From Intellectual Debate to Actual State Policy
	Tsetse Field Officers and Magocha in the Bush
	From Indiscriminate to Selective Game Elimination
	Conclusion
10 The Coming of the Organochlorine Pesticide
	DDT, Dieldren, and BHC
	The Coming of OCPs to Southern Rhodesia
11 Bombing Flies
	The Tiger Moth and Avro Anson XIX: Kariba, 1955–1956
	The Piper Aztec (PA-23 Pawnee): The 1974–1975 and 1982 Operations
	The Cessna 401 in the Chizarira and Matusadona Operations: 1984–1988
	The Bell 206 Jet Ranger II
	Conclusion
12 The Work of Ground Spraying: Incoming Machines in Vatema’s Hands
	Inbound Things and Their Strategic (Local) Deployment
	The Southeastern Spraying Operations into Mozambique
	Kupureya Ndedzi: Doing Ground Spraying
	Conclusion
13 DDT, Pollution, and Gomarara: A Muted Debate
	“The Statistics Are Classified”
	After Silent Spring: Echoes from US Debates on DDT
	The Journey of OCPs in Our Bodies
	(How) Do OCPs Cause Gomarara?
	Opening a Discussion: Environmental Pollutants and Gomarara in Zimbabwe
14 Chemoprophylactics
	Chemoprophylactics in Southern Rhodesia: A Historical Overview, 1909–1973
	Experiments in Drug Resistance
	Case Study: The Eastern Districts and Drug-Resistant Chemoprophylactics
	Conclusion
15 Unleashed: Mhesvi in a Time of War
	Places Rendered Inaccessible by War
	The New Cordons Sanitaires
Conclusion: Vatema as Intellectual Agents
Glossary
Notes
	Preface
	Introducing Mhesvi and Ruzivo Rwemhesvi
	1 How Vanhu Managed Tsetse
	2 Translation into Science and Policy
	3 Knowing a Fly
	4 How to Trap a Fly
	5 Attacking the Fly from Within
	6 Exposing the Fly to Its Enemies
	7 Cordon Sanitaire
	8 Traffic Control
	9 Starving the Fly
	10 The Coming of the Organochlorine Pesticide
	11 Bombing Flies
	12 The Work of Ground Spraying
	13 DDT, Pollution, and Gomarara
	14 Chemoprophylactics
	Unleashed: Mhesvi in a Time of War
References
	Interviews and Fieldwork Archives
	The Black Bvekenyas Project (BBP), Chibwedziva Area, Southeastern Zimbabwe
	Zambezi Valley Interviews/Gokwe/Nembudziya (ZVI/G/N), Northwestern Zimbabwe
	Published Primary Sources
	Secondary Sources
Index