Conservation in common : managing wildlife and sustaining community on the Maasai Steppe / Justin Raycraft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raycraft, Justin, 1990- Author.

Series:

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/486e7438-b6e2-2358-8e65-5b81f753710d 71.

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildlife conservation--Social aspects--Tanzania.

Wildlife conservation.

Wildlife management areas--Social aspects--Tanzania.

Wildlife management areas.

Community-based conservation--Tanzania.

Community-based conservation.

Human-animal relationships--Tanzania.

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

xii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Wildlife conservation in Tanzania is fraught with conflicts between the state, international organizations, private investors, and local communities over the rights to rangeland resources and the benefit streams associated with safari tourism. This book takes up the question of how a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania's Tarangire ecosystem is viewed from the bottom up, by the people who are directly affected by its implementation. Based on historically grounded ethnographic research, Justin Raycraft documents a shift in local attitudes toward Randilen WMA-from fear and protest to widespread support. He analyzes this process of transformation in the context of empathetic management practices that have fostered feelings of trust and uncovered common ground between conservation stakeholders. Raycraft shows that although WMAs are not fully devolved to the local level, pastoral communities can use them to defend the things they value most: their land and livelihoods. Conservation in Common makes a much-needed intervention in critical political ecology literature by providing the first account of a conservation area in Tanzania that serves the interests of its local community, thereby making the case that protecting wildlife habitat and safeguarding human well-being are not mutually exclusive activities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Maasai society and the state

The Lolkisale land squeeze

Politics of hunting and photographic tourism

Creating a wildlife management area

The rise of Randilen

Foundations of a social enterprise

Complexities of community-based conservation

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.

ISBN:

9780820374789

0820374784

9780820374796

0820374792

OCLC:

1511528589

Publisher Number:

90103250158