The Violence of Conservation in Africa

State, Militarization and Alternatives

Maano Ramutsindela, Frank Matose, Tafadzwa Mushonga (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2022
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80088-560-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Edited by Maano Ramutsindela, Professor of Geography, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, Frank Matose, Co-Director, Environmental Humanities South Centre, University of Cape Town and Tafadzwa Mushonga, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Contents:

Preface xii

PART I DIMENSIONS OF VIOLENT CONSERVATION
IN AFRICA
1 Conservation and violence in Africa 2
Maano Ramutsindela, Frank Matose and Tafadzwa Mushonga
PART II THE MILITARIZATION OF CONSERVATION
2 The state and contested natural resources in Africa 23
Frank Matose, Dina Dabo, Tichayana Konono and Simphiwe Tsawu
3 The violence of greening the state in Africa 38
Emmanuel Mogende and Maano Ramutsindela
4 The coloniality of “crisis conservation”: the
transnationalization and militarization of Virunga National
Park from an historical perspective 53
Esther Marijnen
5 Violent forests, local people and the role of the state in
Zimbabwe 73
Tafadzwa Mushonga
6 The new turn in the militarization of conservation in
Cameroon, Central Africa 90
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 113
Amber Abrams
8 Postcolonialism, protected areas and Basarwa of Central
Kalahari Game Reserve 134
Joseph E. Mbaiwa and Olekae T. Thakadu
9 Green violence along the value chain of illicit trade 155
Shaun Cozett
10 Transgression and the making of local heroes in
Mozambique: the conflict of contested illegality 168
Nelisiwe L. Vundla

PART IV ALTERNATIVES
11 Protecting (with) Mount Mabo: is another form of nature
conservation possible? 188
Anselmo Matusse
12 Princess Vlei – a story of entangled vitality 203
Tania Katzschner and Bridget Pitt
13 Non-violent conservation: the need and possibilities 223
Maano Ramutsindela, Tafadzwa Mushonga and Frank
Matose

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Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2022
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-80088-560-1 / 1800885601
ISBN-13	978-1-80088-560-8 / 9781800885608
Zustand	Neuware