Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa - Couverture rigide

Büscher, Bram

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0822354047 ISBN 13 : 9780822354048

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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 Büscher 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, Büscher explains how the successful promotion of transfrontier conservation as a "win-win" solution happens not only in spite of troubling contradictions and problems, but indeed because of them. This is what he refers to as the "politics of neoliberal conservation," which receives its strength from effectively combining strategies of consensus, antipolitics, and marketing. Drawing on long-term, multilevel ethnographic research, Büscher 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822354047
• ISBN 13: 9780822354048
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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