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Creating Africas : Struggles Over Nature, Conservation and Land - Knut Nustad

Creating Africas

Struggles Over Nature, Conservation and Land

By: Knut Nustad

eText | 21 May 2015

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In Africa, conflicts between protected areas for fauna and flora and space for their surrounding human populations continue despite years spent trying to find an accommodation between the needs of both parties. Creating Africas investigates the roots of the current conservation boom, demonstrates that it is part of a struggle over various definitions of existing realities, and examines the global effects of this struggle. The book discusses the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa, the Isimangaliso (St Lucia) Wetland Park. Here, conservation interests are pitted against those of industrial forestry, commercial farming, and local communities struggling to have their lands returned to them. They all seek to define and create their own realities, but do so with very different resources at their disposal. In his expert analysis, Nustad treats these realities not as different representations but rather as multiple, often competing, viewpoints that involve a wide range of actors, both human and non-human. Nustad posits that in order to avoid being accused of neo-colonial land grabbing, the conservation lobby will need to find a new way of imagining nature and protection that includes people.

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Non-FictionEarth Sciences, Geography, Environment, PlanningThe EnvironmentConservation of The EnvironmentSociety & CultureSocial Issues & ProcessesAnimals & SocietyReference, Information & Interdisciplinary SubjectsInterdisciplinary StudiesDevelopment StudiesEnvironmentalist

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