Buscher Bram Buscher

Transforming the Frontier (eBook, PDF)

Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

International peace parks-transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries-have become a popular way of protecting biodiversity while promoting international cooperation and regional development. In Transforming the Frontier, Bram Buscher shows how cross-border conservation neatly reflects the neoliberal political economy in which it developed.Based on extensive research in southern Africa with the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Project, Buscher explains how the successful promotion of transfrontier conservation as a "e;win-win"e; solution happens not only in spite of troubling contradictions and problems, but indeed because of them. This is what he refers to as the "e;politics of neoliberal conservation,"e; which receives its strength from effectively combining strategies of consensus, antipolitics, and marketing. Drawing on long-term, multilevel ethnographic research, Buscher argues that transfrontier conservation projects are not as concerned with on-the-ground development as they are purported to be. Instead, they are reframing environmental protection and sustainable development to fit an increasingly contradictory world order.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822399087
• Artikelnr.: 54785232

Autorenporträt

Bram BÜscher is Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University in The Netherlands, and Visiting Associate Professor of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction. Frontiers of Conservation 1
1. Forging (Trans)frontier Spaces 27
2. Neoliberal Amplifications 49
3. Compressing Reality 81
4. Divergent Interpretations 109
5. Processing Politics 135
6. Images of an Intervention 169
7. Neoliberal Alignments 195
Conclusion 219
Notes 233
References 263
Index 285