Conservation, Markets and the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa: Commodifying the 'Wild' - Couverture souple

 
9781847013408: Conservation, Markets and the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa: Commodifying the 'Wild'
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1847013406 ISBN 13 : 9781847013408
Editeur : James Currey, 2023

Synopsis

At a time of profound anxiety about the effects of human activity on nature, climate change, the "sixth mass extinction", invasive species and rapidly expanding zoonotic diseases, this volume highlights the practices, discourses, and materialities surrounding the commodification of "the wild". Focusing on commodification's newer iterations such as wildlife-park tourism, trophy hunting, and trade in herbal medicines, perfumes and luxury exotic food items, the contributors examine the relationship between commodification and wilderness. Investigating a broad range of cases, it discusses and reveals the pitfalls and challenges of commodification, and what this means for the continent and globally. WINNER of the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award OPEN ACCESS: This title is available under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND

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À propos des auteurs

MICHAEL BOLLIG is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne.

Alfons Mosimane, a geographer, is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Namibia. For the past 20 years Dr Mosimane has researched institutional development and governance systems in community based natural resources management (CBNRM) in Namibia.

Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Namibia. She is the author of Securing Land Rights: Communal Land Reform in Namibia (2020).

Selma Lendelvo is a Senior Researcher and Director of Grants Management and Resources Mobilisation at the University of Namibia. Her research focuses on environmental management and sustainable natural resources management.

LÉA LACAN is a postdoctoral researcher in environmental anthropology at the University of Cologne, Germany and a member of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC). She currently works on the 'Rewilding the Anthropocene' project in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area in Southern/Central Africa.

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Éditeur
James Currey
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1847013406
ISBN 13 
9781847013408
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
512
Éditeur
Bollig Prof Dr Michael, Mosimane Dr Alfons Wabahe, Nghitevelekwa Dr Romie Vonkie, Lendelvo Dr Selma Mekondjo
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Personne responsable
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