ISBN:
9781800885615
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
Keywords:
Natural resources Management
;
Conservation of natural resources
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Offering insights on violence in conservation in Africa, this timely book demonstrates how and why the state pursues conservation objectives to the detriment of its citizens. It focuses on how the dehumanization of black people and indigenous groups, the insertion of global green agendas onto the continent, a lack of resource sovereignty, and neoliberal conservation account for why violence is a permanent feature of conservation in Africa. Chapters uncover various forms of violence experienced on the continent, revealing the local and global conditions that enable them, and propose pathways towards non-violent conservation. The book concludes that the ideology of conservation is also an ideology about people. Crucially, it highlights the implications of increasing investment in violent instruments and the institutionalization of militarized approaches for conservation, the state, and ordinary people. Scholars and students of political ecology and environmental policy and planning will greatly benefit from this book's drawing together of perspectives encompassing green violence and the militarization of conservation. It will also be an invigorating read for African studies researchers looking at coloniality and the re-evaluation of the African state, particularly through the lens of nature conservation
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface -- Part I: Dimensions of violent conservation in Africa -- 1. Conservation and violence in Africa / Maano Ramutsindela, Frank Matose and Tafadzwa Mushonga -- Part II: The militarization of conservation -- 2. The state and contested natural resources in Africa / Frank Matose, Dina Dabo, Tichayana Konono and Simphiwe Tsawu -- 3. The violence of greening the state in Africa / Emmanuel Mogende and Maano Ramutsindela -- 4. The coloniality of "crisis conservation": The transnationalization and militarization of virunga national park from an historical perspective / Esther Marijnen -- 5. Violent forests, local people and the role of the state in zimbabwe / Tafadzwa Mushonga -- 6. The new turn in the militarization of conservation in cameroon, central Africa / Guy Patrice Dkamela and Samuel Nguiffo -- Part III: Local impact and agency -- 7. 'We just saw the fence': Infrastructural violence, fencing and the legacy of South Africa's bantustan / Amber Abrams -- 8. Postcolonialism, protected areas and basarwa of central kalahari game reserve / Joseph E. Mbaiwa and Olekae T. Thakadu -- 9. Green violence along the value chain of illicit trade / Shaun Cozett -- 10. Transgression and the making of local heroes in Mozambique: The conflict of contested illegality / Nelisiwe L. Vundla -- Part IV: Alternatives -- 11. Protecting (with) mount mabo: Is another form of nature conservation possible? / Anselmo Matusse -- 12. Princess vlei - a story of entangled vitality / Tania Katzschner and Bridget Pitt -- 13. Non-violent conservation: The need and possibilities / Maano Ramutsindela, Tafadzwa Mushonga and Frank Matose -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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