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With an extensive and rigorous analysis of conservation and environmental governance in Botswana, this book provides a new approach to understanding biodiversity conservation's political and state-building impacts in postcolonial Africa, challenging our understanding of conservation as only an ecological or an environmental endeavor.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1
Lay of the Land
Conservation and the State in BotswanaPART I AUTHORITY
2
Coercion on Botswana’s Conservation Estate
3
Democracy, the
Kgotla, and Promises of Consent amid Conservation
PART II TERRITORY
4
Land and Ownership on the Conservation Estate
5
Infrastructure and the Contours of Settlement, Tourism, and Conservation
PART III IDENTITY
6
Conservation Restrictions and the Construction of Criminalized Identities
7
Promises of Modernity and Failures of Development on the Conservation Estate
Conclusion
Appendix
Primary Source InterviewsGlossary of Setswana Terms
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Annette A. LaRocco is an associate professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. Her work has appeared in
Politics and Gender, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, the
Journal of Southern African Studies, and other outlets. LaRocco was a 2022-23 US Fulbright Scholar conducting research in Botswana and Zimbabwe through the Africa Regional Research Program.
Summary
With an extensive and rigorous analysis of conservation and environmental governance in Botswana, this book provides a new approach to understanding biodiversity conservation’s political and state-building impacts in postcolonial Africa, challenging our understanding of conservation as only an ecological or an environmental endeavor.
