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Informationen zum Autor Bernhard Gissibl is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz-Institute of European History in Mainz. His PhD dissertation explored the history of hunting and wildlife conservation in colonial Tanzania and is forthcoming with Berghahn under the title The Nature of German Imperialism. Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in colonial East Africa . Sabine Höhler is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Her recent book on Spaceship Earth explores global concepts of environmental carrying capacity and life support between 1960 and 1990 (Pickering & Chatto 2015). Patrick Kupper is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Innsbruck. He is the author of Creating Wilderness: a transnational history of the Swiss National Park (Berghahn 2014). Klappentext National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Tables, Maps and Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: Towards a Global History of National Parks Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Höhler, Patrick Kupper PART I: PARKS AND EMPIRES Chapter 1. Unpacking Yellowstone: The American National Park in Global Perspective Karen Jones Chapter 2. How National Were the First National Parks? Comparative Perspectives from the British Settler Societies Melissa Harper and Richard White Chapter 3. Imperial Preservation and Landscape Reclamation: National Parks and Natural Reserves in French Colonial Africa Caroline Ford Chapter 4. From Colonial Imposition to National Icon: Malaysia's Taman Negara National Park Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells Chapter 5. A Bavarian Serengeti: Space, race and time in the entangled history of nature conservation in East Africa and Germany Bernhard Gissibl PART II: ORGANIZATIONS AND NETWORKS Chapter 6. Translating Yellowstone: Early European National Parks, Weltnaturschutz and the Swiss Model Patrick Kupper Chapter 7. Framing the Heritage of Mankind: National Parks on the International Agenda Anna-Katharina Wöbse Chapter 8. Global Values, Local Politics: Inuit Internationalism and the Establishment of Northern Yukon National Park Brad Martin Chapter 9. Demarcating Wilderness and Disciplining Wildlife: Radiotracking Large Carnivores in Yellowstone and ChitwanNational Parks Etienne Benson PART III: NATIONS AND NATURES Chapter 10. A Revolutionary Civilization: National Parks, Transnational Exchanges, and the Construction of Modern Mexico Emily Wakild Chapter 11. Parks without Wilderness, Wilderness without Parks? Assigning National Park status ...
