Conservation of Violence - Statecraft, Forests, and Coloniality

Informationen zum Autor Tafadzwa Mushonga is a Research Fellow and co-leader of the Environmental Humanities project at the Centre for the Advancement of scholarship, University of Pretoria. She is interested in the political ecology of conservation, particularly people-state relations in the governance of protected forests. She is the co-editor of two volumes: The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarization and Alternative s, with Maano Ramutsindela and Frank Matose, and the Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa: Poetics and Politics of Exploitation , with James Ogude. Klappentext The Conserving of Violence discusses the governance of protected forests in Zimbabwe to spotlight the structural and operational ways in which violent tactics are produced, employed and sustained to promote nature conservation. An important addition to political ecology, environmental justice and the broader environmental humanities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Naming Violence 2. Colonial Forest Administration and the Inheritance of Violence 3. The Militarisation of Conservation: Production and Mobilities of Violence in State Forests 4. The Concessionaire Industry and Continuities of State Violence 5. Constitutional Environmental Rights, the State and Violence Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Tafadzwa Mushonga
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032900117
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3290011-7
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Justice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Medicine, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Landscape art & architecture, Africa, Social Work, Systems of law, Warfare & defence, Terrorism, armed struggle, Biodiversity, Regional Studies, Comparative Politics, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, Social impact of environmental issues, Regional / International studies, Warfare and defence, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Environmental policy & protocols, Development Studies, Environment law, Landscape architecture and design, Environmental policy and protocols, Medicine and Nursing, Civil engineering, surveying and building, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies