IN A WOUNDED LAND : Conservation, Extraction, and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania / Vinay R. Kamat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamat, Vinay R., author.

Series:

Global Change / Global Health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Tanzania--Mtwara Region.

Ethnology.

Marine parks and reserves--Social aspects--Tanzania--Mtwara Region.

Marine parks and reserves.

Gas wells--Social aspects--Tanzania--Mtwara Region.

Gas wells.

Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park (Tanzania).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Place of Publication:

[s.l.] : University of Arizona Press, 2024.

Summary:

<div>Global efforts to conserve nature and prevent biodiversity loss have intensified in response to planetary-scale challenges-nowhere more so than in coastal regions. Accordingly, international conservation organizations have increased their efforts to promote marine protected areas as one of the interventions to prevent biodiversity loss in global hotspots.<br><br>Focusing on the human element of marine conservation and the extractive industry in Tanzania, this volume illuminates what happens when impoverished people living in underdeveloped regions of Africa are suddenly subjected to state-directed conservation and natural resource extraction projects, implemented in their landscapes of subsistence. <i>In a Wounded Land</i> draws on ethnographically rich case studies and vignettes collected over a ten-year period in several coastal villages on Tanzania's southeastern border with Mozambique. In seven chapters, the book demonstrates how state power, processes of displacement and dispossession, forms of local resistance and acquiescence, environmental and social justice, and human well-being become interconnected.<br><br>Written in lucid, accessible language, this is the first book that reveals the social implications of the co-presence of a marine park and a gas project at a time when internationally funded conservation initiatives and extraction projects among rural African populations are engendering rapid social transformation.<br> </div>

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Kamat, Vinay R., 1961- In a wounded land

ISBN:

9780816553099

0816553092

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access