Imposing Wilderness

Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa

By: Roderick P. Neumann

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Paperback | 23 January 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Arusha National Park in northern Tanzania, known for its scenic beauty, is also a battleground. Roderick Neumann's illuminating analysis shows how this park embodies all the political-ecological dilemmas facing protected areas throughout Africa. The roots of the ongoing struggle between the park on Mount Meru and the neighboring Meru peasant communities go much deeper, in Neumann's view, than the issues of poverty, population growth, and ignorance usually cited. These conflicts reflect differences that go back to the beginning of colonial rule. By imposing a European ideal of pristine wilderness, Neumann says, the establishment of national parks and protected areas displaced African meanings as well as material access to the land. He focuses on the symbolic importance of natural landscapes among various social groups in this setting and how it relates to conflicts between peasant communities and the state.

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"A valuable and thought-provoking book. The book is readable, and the analysis mature and direct. The arguments it makes are important, both for academic debates about society and nature and for the raging policy debate about 'people and conservation."' - W. M. Adams, Environmental Planning and Management "An impressive achievement.... Given the intense and sometimes violent character of park-centered conflicts, given the pivotal role of nature tourism in the foreign-currency earnings of African countries, and given the persistence of rural poverty, Neumann's observations and arguments take on tremendous significance." - Allan Pred, Editorial Board, California Studies in Critical Human Geography

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Landscapes of Nature, Terrains of Resistance
Political and Moral Economy on Mount Meru
Conservation versus Custom: State Seizure of Natural Resource Control
Protecting Fauna of the Empire: The Evolution of National Parks in Tanzania
Patterns of Predation at Arusha National Park
Village Moral Economy and the New Colonialis?
Epilogue
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Imposing Wilderness

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