Challenges of Transfrontier Conservation in Southern Africa - The Park Came After Us

The book examines the creation of a trinational transboundary conservation project in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It narrates local residents' struggles to participate in the new park due to misinformation, violence, and forced displacement, problematizing participation in conservation at both local and international levels.

List of contents

Chapter 1: "The World's Greatest Animal Kingdom": Making the Great Limpopo

Chapter 2: "No One Could Think of Anything Better": Social Ecology in [and Near] the Kruger National Park

Chapter 3: "How Can You Have an Election When You Don't Know What You're Electing?": Putting A Participatory Face on the Limpopo National Park

Chapter 4: First Questions, Then Beatings: Enforcing the Rules of Conservation

Chapter 5: "This Place No Longer Belongs to Us, it Belongs to Great Limpopo": Past and Future Resettlement

Chapter 6: Speaking Shangaan Across Borders: The Language of Land and Leaving It

Chapter 7: The Coming After

About the author

Rachel DeMotts is associate professor and director of the Environmental Policy and Decision-Making Program at the University of Puget Sound.

Summary

The book examines the creation of a trinational transboundary conservation project in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It narrates local residents’ struggles to participate in the new park due to misinformation, violence, and forced displacement, problematizing participation in conservation at both local and international levels.

Product details

• Authors: Demotts, Rachel DeMotts
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498504638
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0463-8
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Geopolitics, Africa, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Conservation of the environment, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies