Nature conservation in Southern Africa Harry Wels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wels, Harry.

Series:

African Dynamics 16.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildlife conservation--Africa, Southern.

Wildlife conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

Nature conservation in southern Africa has always been characterised by an interplay between Capital, specific understandings of Morality, and forms of Militarism, that are all dependent upon the shared subservience and marginalization of animals and certain groups of people in society. Although the subjectivity of people has been rendered visible in earlier publications on histories of conservation in southern Africa, the subjectivity of animals is hardly ever seriously considered or explicitly dealt with. In this edited volume the subjectivity and sentience of animals is explicitly included. The contributors argue that the shared human and animal marginalisation and agency in nature conservation in southern Africa (and beyond) could and should be further explored under the label of ‘sentient conservation’. Contributors are Malcolm Draper, Vupenyu Dzingirai, Jan-Bart Gewald, Michael Glover, Paul Hebinck, Tariro Kamuti, Lindiwe Mangwanya, Albert Manhamo, Dhoya Snijders, Marja Spierenburg, Sandra Swart, Harry Wels.

Contents:

Introduction: People, Animals, Morality, and Marginality: Reconfiguring Wildlife Conservation in Southern Africa / Jan-Bart Gewald , Marja Spierenburg and Harry Wels

Animals in Wildlife Conservation

A Cattle-Centred History of Southern Africa? / Michael Glover

Brothers in Arms: Baboon-Human Interactions, a Southern African Perspective / Jan-Bart Gewald

Rewilding White Lions: Conservation through the Eyes of Carnivores? / Harry Wels

Histories in Wildlife Conservation

National Parks, Eco-Frontiers, and Transfrontiersmanship in Southern African Conservation / Malcolm Draper

Resurrection Conservation: The Return of the Extinct? / Sandra Swart

Politics of Wildlife Conservation

The Emergence and Socio-Economic Impacts of Wildlife Ranching in South Africa / Marja Spierenburg

‘If It Pays, It Stays’: The Lobby for Private Wildlife Ranching in South Africa / Tariro Kamuti

Controlling Sex and Death: On the Wildlife Trophy Industry in South Africa / Dhoya Snijders

Critical Voices in Wildlife Conservation

Continued State Monopoly and Control of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in ZimbabweThe Case of Hurungwe’s Campfire Programme / Vupenyu Dzingirai , Albert Manhamo and Lindiwe Mangwanya

Poaching: Between Conservation from Below, Livelihoods and Resistance / Paul Hebinck.

ISBN:

90-04-38511-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004385115 DOI