Changing Face of Land and Conservation in Post-Colonial Africa - Old Land, New Practices?

Summary

This book features innovative research on the effects of a range of contemporary conservation practices in such diverse locations as Uganda, Zambia and South Africa, showing how nature is being commodified and old land reconfigured, often to meet neoliberal conservation agendas. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

Product details

• Authors: George Brooks Barrett
• Assisted by: George Barrett (Editor), Barrett George (Editor), Shirley Brooks (Editor), Brooks Shirley (Editor), Jenny Josefsson (Editor), Josefsson Jenny (Editor), Nqobile Zulu (Editor), Zulu Nqobile (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2014
• EAN: 9781138832732
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83273-2
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, Regional / International studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination