The Changing Face of Land and Conservation in Post-Colonial Africa: Old Land, New Practices?

ISBN-13: 9780367738945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 196 str.

George Barrett; Shirley Brooks; Jenny Josefsson

Opis

This book features innovative research on the effects of a range of contemporary conservation practices in such diverse locations as Uganda, Zambia and South Africa, showing how nature is being commodified and old land reconfigured, often to meet neoliberal conservation agendas.

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Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Starting the conversation: land issues and critical conservation studies in post-colonial Africa  3. Diversity behind constructed unity: the resettlement process of the !Xun and Khwe communities in South Africa  4. Bossiedokters and the challenges of nature co-management in the Boland area of South Africa’s Western Cape  5. Peanut butter salvation: the replayed assumptions of ‘community’ conservation in Zambia  6. Land beneficiaries as game farmers: conservation, land reform and the invention of the ‘community game farm’ in KwaZulu-Natal  7. Constructing walls of carbon the complexities of community, carbon sequestration and protected areas in Uganda  8. Conditioned by neoliberalism: a reassessment of land claim resolutions in the Kruger National Park  9. Markets of exceptionalism: peace parks in Southern Africa  10. New geographies of conservation and globalisation: the spatiality of development for conservation in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa  11. Balancing (re)distribution: Franco-Mauritians landownership in the maintenance of an elite position

O autorze

George Barrett works in the field of international relations, security and environmental politics. Her doctorate argues for the reinvigoration of Critical Security Studies in Southern Africa, giving centrality to human-environment relations in rethinking security and emancipation in the region. Her research views these issues through the optic of peace parks.

Shirley Brooks is a human geographer and environmental historian. Her research explores social histories of nature conservation and land issues in South Africa. She has written on the history of the Zululand game reserves as well as private wildlife production and related geographies of tourism and hunting in KwaZulu-Natal.

Jenny Josefsson’s research explores the relationships between people, land and wildlife on private game farms in KwaZulu-Natal. She has a special interest in the dynamics of ethnographic fieldwork and knowledge-generation.

Nqobile Zulu’s research interests span across the spectrum of Agrarian reform, development and the interface it brings to rural communities. His current work focuses on the transition to private game farming and the contestations developing in the Groot Marico district of the North West province in South Africa.