Violence of Conservation in Africa

State, Militarization and Alternatives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvMaano Ramutsindela,Frank Matose,Tafadzwa Mushonga

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-01-14
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781800885608

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Contents:Preface xiiPART I DIMENSIONS OF VIOLENT CONSERVATIONIN AFRICA1 Conservation and violence in Africa 2Maano Ramutsindela, Frank Matose and Tafadzwa MushongaPART II THE MILITARIZATION OF CONSERVATION2 The state and contested natural resources in Africa 23Frank Matose, Dina Dabo, Tichayana Konono and Simphiwe Tsawu3 The violence of greening the state in Africa 38Emmanuel Mogende and Maano Ramutsindela4 The coloniality of “crisis conservation”: thetransnationalization and militarization of Virunga NationalPark from an historical perspective 53Esther Marijnen5 Violent forests, local people and the role of the state inZimbabwe 73Tafadzwa Mushonga6 The new turn in the militarization of conservation inCameroon, Central Africa 90Guy Patrice Dkamela and Samuel NguiffoPART III LOCAL IMPACT AND AGENCY7 ‘We just saw the fence’: infrastructural violence, fencingand the legacy of South Africa’s bantustan 113Amber Abrams8 Postcolonialism, protected areas and Basarwa of CentralKalahari Game Reserve 134Joseph E. Mbaiwa and Olekae T. Thakadu9 Green violence along the value chain of illicit trade 155Shaun Cozett10 Transgression and the making of local heroes inMozambique: the conflict of contested illegality 168Nelisiwe L. VundlaPART IV ALTERNATIVES11 Protecting (with) Mount Mabo: is another form of natureconservation possible? 188Anselmo Matusse12 Princess Vlei – a story of entangled vitality 203Tania Katzschner and Bridget Pitt13 Non-violent conservation: the need and possibilities 223Maano Ramutsindela, Tafadzwa Mushonga and FrankMatoseIndex

‘This volume traces the trajectory of the dominant conservation narratives and approaches in Africa, and reveals the myriad ways in which contemporary conservation ideologies and practices reproduce colonial conservation ideologies and practices. The chapters compiled into this volume illuminate the contradictions and contestations of the dominant conservation approaches, and propose alternatives that can produce beneficial outcomes for both people and nature. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of conservation, and is a must read for those who want to envision a conservation which will guarantee sustainable outcomes.’