Rachel Demotts

Challenges of Transfrontier Conservation in Southern Africa

The Park Came After Us

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9781498504638
• ISBN-10: 1498504639
• Artikelnr.: 48693569

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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