Tropical Nature : Colonial and Post-Colonial Conservation in Africa and Asia / edited by Guillaume Blanc, Mathieu Guérin and Grégory Quenet ; translated by Adrian Morfee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blanc, Guillaume, 1982- editor.

Guérin, Mathieu, editor.

Quenet, Grégory, 1972- editor.

Morfee, Adrian, tranlator.

Series:

Environment in history ; v. 26.

Environment in History: International Perspectives Series ; volume 26

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Nature conservation--Africa--History--20th century.

Nature conservation.

Nature conservation--Asia--History--20th century.

Imperialism--Environmental aspects--History.

Imperialism.

Environmental conditions--Africa--History--20th century.

Environmental conditions.

Environmental conditions--Asia--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages)

Edition:

English-language edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2025.

Summary:

Across Africa and South-East Asia, the impulse to protect nature often dovetails with the domination of local people. From mass displacement to severe restrictions on land use and daily acts of violence, conservation work risks reproducing Eurocentric modes of colonialism and worsening the effects of the climate crisis. In this insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. Comparing case studies ranging from Ali Bongo’s Gabon, to the postcolonial African itinerary of the agronomist Arthur Bunting, this volume advances a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations binding human societies to the non-human world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction. Protecting Nature in Africa and Asia

CHAPTER 1 Laissez-Faire Conservation

CHAPTER 2 Setting up a Wildlife Department

CHAPTER 3 Imperial Forests and Nature Reserves in Singapore, 1883–1959

CHAPTER 4 Rambouillet, Agricultural Stations and French Colonial Africa

CHAPTER 5 Missing Conservation?

CHAPTER 6 Between Empire and Development

CHAPTER 7 The Adamsons, Born Free and the Late Colonial Era

CHAPTER 8 Conservation in the Days of Independence

CHAPTER 9 Tracking Wildebeests

CHAPTER 10 Conserving Nature in Mozambique

CHAPTER 11 Catfights and Crocodile Tears

CHAPTER 12 Representing Space to Structure Time

CONCLUSION Studying Nature, Networks and Power

Index

Notes:

Originally published in French as Protéger et détruire: Gouverner la nature sous les tropiques (XX-XXIe siècle).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781805398929

180539892X

9781805398936

1805398938

OCLC:

1493077718